Knowledge base

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.

As traditional methodologies of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) often have proved to be too time consuming and expensive to implement on a large scale within organizations Kaplan and Anderson introduce in this book time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC).

In Performance Dashboards, Wayne Eckerson starts by providing the necessary conceptual foundation of operational, tactical, and strategic performance dashboards and how they fit into the larger frameworks of performance management and business intelligence.

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 this book the authors expose the limitations of the traditional budgeting process in today' fast-paced environment.

This book is a good start for anyone who cares to understand what Business Intelligence is all about and the tremendous benefits it can bring to your organization.

In this book Ralph Kimball, a true visionary in the area of data warehousing, explains how the extract, transform, and load (ETL) needs to be properly planned, designed and build in order to deliver data in a presentation-ready format.

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

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.

Introduction Creating insight in your company data is becoming crucial for all companies. Data is seen as an asset and can be used as a strategic advantage towards competitors. Knowledge is power, but how can this knowledge be organized in a company and shared amongst all users?