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Course Overview Many finance functions are being challenged by their organisations to become more commercial. This course looks at the challenges involved in this and offers practical insights into how to make the transition, as well as providing an update on the tools and techniques which are typically found in the kitbag of a commercial finance function. The challenge is to combine the business partner, value adding components of finance with its traditional control and governance role. The course will cover many of the challenges posed by CEOs to finance - How can you demonstrate your effectiveness and benchmark yourself?
- How can you help me align the cost base to our strategic objectives?
- How can you give me a balanced view of our corporate performance?
- How should we organise finance to improve service delivery whilst reducing costs?
- How can we empower our senior managers to become more effective decision makers?
- What products/channels/customer groupings are generating value for us?
We will explore the options for addressing these and other concerns and show how a proactive approach can reap significant rewards. We will also look at case study examples of commercial finance in action and look at how this impacts organisational success. Course Outline - Overview of finance performance improvement initiatives
- Introduction to 'World Class Finance'
- How to assess where you are and where you need to go
- Benchmarking the finance function
- The technologies and approaches available
- Outsourcing/shared service centres
- Activity based approaches to cost management
- Implementing a service level culture
- Current approaches to performance management -balanced scorecard revisited?
- Commercial finance - case study examples
- Planning and budgeting
- Measuring success
- Finance systems architectures
- Implementation approaches
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