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Faster forwardWith huge assets under management, our client has no problem raising finance. Creating financial security for investors is, after all, at the beating heart of this insurance company, a leading provider of pensions, investments and protection products. But how could its own finance function cope against a backdrop of changes to the firm’s business...
Shared vision for financePwC’s knowledge and experience of retail, finance transformation and shared services helped the company:
• challenge the vision for its finance function
• explore all possible scenarios, and
• achieve consensus for change.
Ringing the changesPwC helped a large global telecoms company cut its finance function costs in half, introduce faster reporting and create shared services by:
• researching the feasibility of shared services
• considering all the process, transition, migration, recruitment and training implications
• monitoring the benefits and effectiveness achieved....
In search of simplicityPwC helped a global energy company simplify its financial control and accounting function (FC&A) by:
- building consensus on current and future positions
- constructing an optimisation chart to underpin their five-year strategy, and
- communicating the need for change to all stakeholders.
Risk and rewardOur client wanted to get a firm handle on the level of risk within its financial control and accounting function (FC&A). PwC put them in control by:
creating a common risk language across the division
building a framework to identify and measure risk
designing a suite of IT tools and processes to manage risk from its identification...
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Against the background of gradual economic recovery, ‘Is finance rising to the challenge?’ outlines the latest findings from the benchmark analysis of the finance functions of over 100 FTSE 200 and other international firms. In particular, the report examines whether finance teams are equipped to provide the levels of strategic insight,...
You’re in the midst of the credit crunch. Is your control environment able to mitigate the emerging risks?
Highlights
1. Take a closer look – is your controls platform good enough? – Do you have the sound controls platform you need to respond effectively to emerging issues and risks?
2. Focus on what really matters – responding...
Many CFOs are helping their companies achieve significant and sustainable cost reductions – are you leading your business through the downturn?
The perception of the CFO’s role has recently changed from helping the business to understand the financial implications of operational decisions to helping business to understand the operational...
Creating new insights to improve company performance
Creating new insights to improve company performance You have many customers, who purchase
many products and services. But do you know which of them represent profitable business? How well can you do the analysis and act on the insights generated? In the current economic climate, this insight is...
Adding up or adding value?
To what extent are your business partners helping the organisation fully realise its strategy?
Are your finance team enhancing business insight to the full through robust information and trusted advisor relationships?
Highlights
1. The state of play. Business partnering offers strategic benefit – but most companies...
The UK Government introduced the Bribery Bill into the House of Lords on 19 November 2009, following the draft Bill published in March and the Joint Select Committee report on the draft Bill in July. The Bill seeks to enhance the UK’s anti-bribery legislation which is generally old and has been subject to serious criticism internationally. The...
Defining “adequate procedures” in response to the UK Bribery Bill 2009
The UK Ministry of Justice published the draft Bribery Bill on 25 March 2009. This seeks to enhance the UK’s anti-bribery legislation which is fragmented and has been subject to serious criticism internationally. As well as proposing general and specific bribery...
Saratoga is the human capital measurement and benchmarking arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Using a proven methodology developed over some 25 years across the world, Saratoga’s consulting services produce an executive appraisal of the strengths and limitations of an organisation’s human capital (workforce), enabling a focus upon those...
At the end of 2007, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) published its first report on the future of people management. We believed the growing talent crisis, demographic shifts, advances in technology and the rise of sustainability issues on the corporate agenda would dramatically change organisational models and the way in which companies manage their people.
The...
Setting a smarter course for growth, the PricewaterhouseCoopers 13th Annual Global CEO Survey, looks at what measures CEOs are taking in response to recession, how they view the post-crisis business environment and what changes they are making to adapt their organisations.
What did we learn? Business leaders had to make dramatic changes to their organisations...
Against the background of gradual economic recovery, ‘Is finance rising to the challenge?’ outlines the latest findings from the benchmark analysis of over 100 participating companies. In particular, the report examines whether finance teams are equipped to provide the levels of strategic insight, risk oversight and other key aspects of...
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