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- Leveraging Your Shared Services Advantage in General Ledger Processing
General Ledger excellence is harder to achieve in shared services than when self-contained at a location or Business Unit. Why?
Read more 12 December 2008 - Nobody Doesn't Like...Outsourcing?
Sara Lee joins a growing number of companies that are sending their finance work to low-cost third parties.
Read more 12 December 2008 - Too many mistakes means too many managers
As their finances go into meltdown, companies are scrambling to cut costs across the board - in every place but the right one.
Read more 12 December 2008 - Ten Potential Opportunities In A Time Of Crisis for Shared Services
There’s no doubt that these are trying times - and very few doubts that they will continue to be so for the foreseeable future as the real consequences of the biggest financial crisis since the Wall Street Crash play out across a wounded global economy.
Read more 1 December 2008 - Independent and Mail Newspapers leverage Shared Services
The Independent and Independent on Sunday are to relocate from the London Docklands to Associated Newspapers' headquarters, home of the Daily Mail, in Kensington, in an attempt to cut costs.
Read more 29 November 2008 - Finance Transformation Leaders Conference - Interactive Survey Results 2008
Attendees at the Finance Transformation Leaders Conference participated in an interactive poll on questions ranging from the impact of the current financial crisis, talent management issues and the future of business transformation. This report provides the results and insights shared by leading CFOs.
Read more 28 November 2008 - Is there a boom in the Shared Services employment market?
Whilst we hear of Citi cutting back on 75,000 jobs globally, and BT reducing their workforce by 10,000, I am struck by the amount of alerts I get about Shared Services positions available.
Read more 18 November 2008 - Public Sector Shared Services Get a Boost
Recent research, conducted by Ovum, has forecast that the European public sector shared services market will be worth £4bn between 2007-2012.
Read more 18 November 2008 - Stora Enso takes step in restructuring its finance function
Stora Enso has signed an agreement to outsource most of its financial transaction processing to Capgemini.
Read more 5 November 2008 - Examine the Opportunities in Finance and Accounting Outsourcing
A Strategic Focus Analysis to Moving to Higher Value Services
Read more 31 October 2008