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Performance Management Webcasts

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How Best-in-Class Companies Plan in Today's Dynamic World

An Aberdeen Webcast

Budget season is around the corner, and in today's uncertain economic environment, dynamic financial planning can give business leaders the tools to take prompt action and emerge even stronger.

In this webcast, Nasreen Quibria, Senior Analyst at Aberdeen Group shares insights from recent research findings that reveal the combination of strategic actions and technologies of top performing companies to:

• Create a more agile and dynamically responsive budgeting and planning environment
• Improve visibility to the planning process
• Achieve overall budget accuracy and forecast accuracy
• As well as identify actionable strategies for improvement to achieve better performance

A Guide to Dynamic Forecasting Webcast: Building a Portal to Future Performance

A Business Finance Webcast

In today's volatile environment, if you're looking at a budget that was created two to three months ago, much less nine months ago, it's useless.

From this Webcast, you will learn how to rethink the design and operation of your forecasting process to make it more dynamic and responsive to your organizational needs.Hear Business Finance editor in chief Jack Sweeney interview budgeting guru Steve Player about the evolutionary path that is now empowering organizations by transforming forecasting and planning. Learn from detailed case studies how organizations were able to replace the time-consuming processes of traditional budgeting with dynamic forecasting & planning.

In addition, this Webcast will show you how best to automate and sustain a dynamic planning process, as well as mitigate risk in transforming your forecasting processes.

The Keys to Innovation: How to Advance Beyond Traditional Budgeting & Forecasting

A Business Finance Webcast

Join Business Finance editor in chief Jack Sweeney as he reviews exclusive findings from a recent budgeting best practices survey of more than 200 finance executives. Then hear Steve Player, program director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table in North America, explore approaches you can use to evaluate your company's approach to budgeting; and identify opportunities to improve the accuracy of your company's forecasts.

Performance Management in the Mid-Market

An Aberdeen Webcast

Discover the strategies that help Best-in-Class mid-market companies succeed in Performance Management.

Having benchmarked the performance of more than 644,000 companies in research across the value chain, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to provide you with the facts that matter - the facts that enable companies to get ahead and drive results. That's why their research is relied on by more than 2.5 million readers in over 40 countries, 90% of the Fortune 1,000, and 93% of the Technology 500.

Manage A Successful Transition to IFRS

A CFO.com Webcast

This Webcast will provide you with a time-line and illustrations of best practices that enable midsize businesses to chart a straightforward course from GAAP to IFRS. If you aim to learn how your company will likely benefit - especially from simplified reporting requirements - by implementing IFRS, then this is one Webcast you will not want to miss.

Strategic Financial Consolidation Process - Reduce the Cycle Time

A BPM Partners Webcast

Are you still spending countless hours consolidating your data? Want this time back?

Financial consolidation is one of the most critical processes of an organization. Effectively managing consolidation cycle times and shortening statutory reporting processes without sacrificing vital controls or compliance with laws and regulatory bodies has become of key importance to most organizations.

Come find out how your peers are minimizing the time spent on financial consolidation and what changes they have made that support them in this endeavor. From process re-engineering to the simple addition of automated report distribution, corporate information can be more meaningful and timely. Reduce time spent processing and increase the time spent analyzing!

Getting Results from Sales Performance Management: A How-to Guide for Finance Professionals

An Aberdeen Webcast

In today's ever-changing business environment being responsive to factors influencing your sales and profitability numbers is essential to being competitive. However, achieving the alignment and visibility required to make Sales Performance Management (SPM) payoff is not always easy.

Learn what steps organizations are taking to maximize the quality of sales insights and improve decision making. Learn how to bring meaningful sales data to light for improved insightful decision making. Measure and monitor the performance of sales representatives, product lines and regions/territories and highlight potential areas of trouble before it occurs.

Strategic Budgeting: Aligning Budgets to Business Performance Planning

A BPM Partners Webcast

Does your organization's budget reflect its strategic goals or set guidelines for how to achieve those goals? Organizations must be capable of positioning their financial resources to stay one step ahead of the ever-increasing business challenges. By gaining knowledge of strategic budgeting processes and utilizing the latest forecasting techniques, you can ensure that your organization will not fall behind.

Learn how to integrate the budgetary process with the overarching strategic plan. Learn how to merge your corporate strategy with your budgets!

Frequent Forecasting for Improved Business Performance

A BPM Partners Webcast

You don't have to be a weatherman to forecast the outcome of your organization. The tools are at your fingertips and with a bit of data intelligence, preparing forecasts on a regular basis can become part of your planning routine.

Learn how to use information and data to bring more visibility to current corporate status. Learn best practices for achieving forecast results and allow your organization to put frequent forecasting into concrete practice.