Do you have the information you need to predict costs and results? The information to make good and timely decisions?
Are your planning systems fragmented across the organization?
Is your financial information aligned with operations? Do you have a clear view of what’s driving costs or where to contain them?
For many finance organizations, the answer to these questions is no. Forecast and Cost Control, the new webinar from Business Objects, will transform the way you think about linking financial and operational planning across all business functions. This insightful webinar will show you how to increase your forecast accuracy and understand the drivers of cost, so that you can better predict business outcomes and maximize profitability.
Attend this seminar and discover how you can:
- Better model and understand your operational costs and translate them into
financial terms - Align your company’s financial and operational plans to more accurately predict and control the cost of a given activity
- Use these plans to perform dynamic rolling forecasts to ensure that your company’s most recent results are factored into future plans
The first 150 registrants will receive a complimentary copy of Planning and Budgeting for the Agile Enterprise: A driver-based budgeting toolkit. This book focuses on using external and internal nonfinancial drivers to predict line item expenses. It also provides case studies and examples to ensure understanding and checklists on implementation issues.
Get a complete view of your
organization— and align yourself for success.
Agenda
Richard Barrett, Director of Operations, EPM Center of Excellence, Business Objects, will discuss the challenges finance organization face in forecasting and controlling costs, and how Business Objects gives you market-leading domain expertise and best practice methodologies with BusinessObjects™ Forecast and Cost Control.
Greg Dimmock, Product Marketing Director, Business Objects, will share real-life examples of how companies such as BDL Hotels, WH Smith, Société Générale, and others have leveraged Business Objects products and expertise to dramatically improve their forecasting and profitability.
RICHARD
BARRETT
Richard Barrrett is Director of Operations for Business Objects EPM Center of Excellence. He has a wealth of experience in consulting and has held national and international positions in consumer marketing and insurance as well as business-to-business marketing. His experience in product and customer profitability and enterprise performance management began at DHL during the late 1980s and continued to grow in the insurance market, prior to coming to Business Objects.
GREG
DIMMOCK
As Product Marketing Director, Greg Dimmock defines the vision and product strategy for Business Objects Planning. He brings 10 years of consulting and business performance management experience to his role at Business Objects. His prior positions include senior consultant for BearingPoint; analyst in the Marketing, Planning and Economics Department for General Sekiyu (Exxon) in Tokyo; and strategic consultant with the NRG Group, a Toronto-based technology fund. Dimmock holds an International MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, and an Honours BA from McGill University, Montreal.
WHat
Forecast and Cost Control webinar, with Richard Barrett and Greg Dimmock
Duration: 60 minutes
WHen
On-demand
WHO
Richard Barrett,
Director of Operations, EPM Center of Excellence, Business Objects
Greg Dimmock,
Product Marketing Director,
Business Objects
