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Explore the critical roles of back office functions in businesses, including settlements, compliance, and IT services, with ...

Many businesses use some form of management accounting, whose functions include budgets, cost allocation methods and cost-volume-profit or break-even analysis. Strategic management accounting goes ...

Concerns that the outsourcing of finance and accounting functions impedes the ability to control key processes related to compliance and governance appear to have abated, according to a survey ...

A number of years ago Deloitte (UK) released a white paper titled “ Financial Planning and Analysis – The Next Frontier of Business Process Outsourcing? ” which explored the possibility of outsourcing ...

Shortly after we had started our consulting firm, Whitestone Partners, we began an engagement with a home healthcare business. As we do in almost all of our engagements, we asked to see the company's ...

To succeed and excel in the current marketplace, small businesses need direction when starting out, during their development stages and throughout the life of the company. Setting goals and aligning ...

Gov. Bill Haslam this week signed a little-noticed executive order that puts control of financial accounting for three state departments in the Department of Finance and Administration. Executive ...