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| Benchmarking Data, Diagnostic and Execution Tools, and Templates |
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Optimizing the Midsized Company’s Accounting Close
This webinar presents research around key decisions facing corporate controllers as they look to leverage business unit closing process performance and continuous close improvement techniques to execute against competing demands. |
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- Member-shared Tool - Close Tracker
This document provides a template to perform and report financial closure, as well as a checklist of various close activities with estimate timelines and assigned owners. Use this tool to gauge activity completion and quality of execution at the unit level, and accordingly, adjust your close and ancillary processes.
- Member-shared Tool - Close Process Re-Engineering Matrix
This FLEx member-donated Excel tool will help finance teams plan and track an accounting close process re-engineering. It features a detailed closing task list and owners that maps close process tasks against current completion dates and target completion dates. In addition, the tracker shows the level of change management required to improve individual close process steps.
- 2007 Accounting Close Benchmarks
This document summarizes survey results covering Accounting Close processes such as performance indicators, drivers for change, people, process and technology resources. Use this tool to quickly benchmark your accounting close processes against your peers.
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| Access hundreds of Finance professionals for Q & A and benchmarking through face-to-face executive forums and online peer networking groups |
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| Webinars and On-demand Training Seminars |
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- Webinar: Optimizing the Accounting Close Process
To improve close execution controllers must find a way to execute against competing demands-valid and accurate reporting, efficient resource usage during the close cycle, and timely delivery of information to support business decisions. This research aims to address key decisions facing corporate controllers as they look to leverage business unit closing process performance and continuous close improvement techniques to resolve that trade-off.
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