Today’s CFO must manage far more than a company's finances, with responsibility for corporate strategy and performance, stakeholder communications, and compliance with a host of ever-changing regulations requiring an increasing amount of the CFO’s time. The CFO’s challenge is often exacerbated by inconsistent or inaccurate performance data and reporting across the enterprise, lengthy financial management cycles, an inability to predict future costs, and a lack of alignment between overall strategy and day-to-day operations. Read more >>

trend ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: THE NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISE PLANNING Sometime in the distant future, enterprise performance management-EPM-will be able to turn a globe-spanning organization into a trained athlete, Read more >>

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With its total assets exceeding $42 billion, Zions Bancorporation (NASDAQ: Zions) operates 470 full-service banking offices throughout the western United States. Read more >>	This document defines three priorities for finance system investment through 2009. This will help CFOs move the balance of finance function activities from transaction processing to higher-value-added strategic activities. Read more >>	If your company is like most, you must always focus on increasing shareholder value. In an ideal world, every planning session's agenda... Read more >>

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