CPM - Planning & Budgeting

With new regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley requiring companies to deliver their financial statements even more quickly, the pressure is really on finance departments to reduce the time it takes to complete the closing process. Fast Close presents the successful, field-tested principles of bestselling author and accounting guru Steven Bragg. By following his authoritative, recommended changes, readers can expect to arrive at a closing interval that may encompass as little as a single day.

We are eagerly looking forward to the release of this new book by Howard Dresner, a well-respected industry expert in the areas of Business Intelligence and Performance Management and former Gartner analyst, in the latter half of this year.

In today's increasingly competitive and volatile environment companies need to significantly upgrade their management practices in order to remain competitive. In this provocative book Axson describes the principal best practices for each element of the performance management process—strategic planning, tactical and financial planning, management reporting, forecasting, and risk management.

Challenging many of the finance operation's accepted practices, this book revolutionizes the finance manager's role.