If you are responsible for or participating in the production of your state or municipal government’s CAFR, you may have spent the past few months preparing. Most organizations responsible for the CAFR spend the months of August through November diligently producing, auditing, and editing all the information necessary for the report, which, when printed, can […]
The internal audit process is one of the most critical activities in an organization. Managing risk and ensuring regulatory compliance is incredibly demanding. More and more, the process requires experienced, knowledgeable leaders to direct compliance efforts while ensuring peak efficiency. So we were interested to see CEB, a member-based advisory company that provides advisory services […]
If budgeting spreadsheets are a pain in your neck, then you should take a look at Microsoft Forecaster. Forecaster software, with its templates and familiar spreadsheet style, is so simple that even non-techy and non-finance-y employees can use it to successfully plan and collaborate on budgets. Forecaster lives up to its name by easily allowing […]
Accounting Web posted an excellent article today highlighting the fact that “nearly two-thirds of finance departments in US companies and one-half in Canadian companies are still using a manual accounting system.” Accounting Web learned this surprising tidbit from the recently published fourth annual report from the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) and Robert Half, Benchmarking […]
