20+ System Improvements all Corporate Accountants can do no matter what their budget is

Corporate accountants are running teams that have procedures more akin with Charles Dickens that the 21st century.  Whilst many organisations in the USA have been investing in technology and appropriate tools to create a truly paperless office, many of us have watched, as if disinterested or more likely confused.  What is appropriate? What should I implement?

The guessing is now over.  This paper will help you to accept and embrace technology in all the areas that affect the finance team, accounts payable, reporting, Board reporting, forecasting, intranet, sales reporting, costing systems etc

Far too often the accountants spend all their time and resources implementing yet another GL upgrade or replacement which at best generates little at worst or no decision based information.

The lack of appreciation of system enhancements will, if it has not already, become career limiting. This white paper will chart the pathway blazed ahead by far seeing corporate accountants in both hemispheres.

What you will gain

  • Access to electronic versions of all templates
  • pre select the likely system enhancement you should do in the next 1 to 3 years
  • apply the lessons learnt from implementing these systems
  • identify the building blocks to better practice 21st century corporate accounting function
  • explain to your management why your organisation should invest in these technologies

Content

  • A paperless accounts payable
  • Purchase card why the argument is irrefutable
  • Reporting tools
  • Forecasting tools
  • Speeding up month-end systems without spending a cent
  • Working with technology with your main customers and suppliers
  • Maximising the use of the intranet

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The impact of better systems on the accounts team’s workload
  3. Move to a paperless A/P operation
  4. Improving reporting systems
  5. The need for a planning tool
  6. Maximising the use by the finance team of the intranet
  7. Advantages in investing in an intranet
  8. Reporting Sales
  9. Yesterday’s sales report
  10. Reporting weekly key customer’s sales
  11. Other areas to look at…
  12. G/L initiatives
  13. Presenter biography
  14. Appendix 1 Electronic invoicing at Johnson & Johnson
  15. Appendix 2 Guidelines for electronic invoicing
  16. Appendix 3 How to scan instructions
  17. Appendix 4 Purchase Card Guide from UK
  18. Appendix 5 Purchase Cardholder Rules and Responsibilities
  19. Appendix 6 internet search for consolidation+software
  20. Appendix 7 Balanced scorecard+freeware