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CFO RESEARCH SERVICES The inside story on what your peers are doing Research opportunities available Download the following Research Reports free! Conclusions papers from 2007 CFO Conferences: Corporate Performance Management: How CFOs Are Driving the Next Generation of Growth and Productivity - Click here to download the report now. STRATEGY EXECUTION—LINKING VALUE, METRICS, AND REWARDS In a highly competitive marketplace, successful strategy execution is often the key factor that separates top performers from the competition. In this study, we interviewed senior finance executives at more than 25 top-performing North American and European companies to learn how they use the tools and techniques of performance management to realize their business strategies. Through this interview program, we uncovered a series of common practices that, when applied, link business activities tightly to executing business strategy and, ultimately, to value creation. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by Deloitte THE SUPERSTAR CFO—OPTIMIZING AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX ROLE What does the ideal CFO do? What does he or she not do? And what should the ideal CFO do in the future? In this study, more than 350 senior finance executives weigh in with their views on the superstar CFO. Survey respondents say that the ideal CFO bears ultimate responsibility for the finance function and its results, and that he or she should work closely with other parts of the business as an adviser and process expert. But while they report strong performance among today’s CFOs in their role as leaders of the finance function, respondents call for CFOs to spend more time and attention on performance enhancing activities—such as developing business strategy—in the future. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by SAP CFOS' VIEWS ON PROCUREMENT—INFORMATION, RISK, AND MONEY In their efforts to make and sell their wares to customers, companies of all types rely on inputs from a great many third parties. These vendors provide inputs—some mission critical, others mundane—to companies' production and operating processes, and the cost and availability of these inputs often have a direct impact on company performance. This study examines how CFOs see the procurement function as a source of cost savings and information to support decision making and business planning and explores finance executives' views on the risks posed by uneven performance in the procurement function. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by Ariba PROMOTING GROWTH THROUGH INCENTIVE COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT: TECHNOLOGY TOOLS INCREASE VISIBILITY AND CONTROL Companies increasingly sell integrated product and service offerings to their customers in an effort to make the most of each opportunity. Such integrated offerings bring complexity to companies' processes for selling and serving these accounts — and to the compensation plans used to motivate and reward staff. Some companies have adopted incentive compensation management software to administer complex compensation plans, manage the cost of such plans, and predict results with certainty. In this study, CFO Research Services reports on a series of in-depth interviews with senior finance executives who explain how their companies have met their incentive compensation management challenges. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by Varicent WHAT DO COMPANIES WANT FROM THE CORPORATE TAX FUNCTION? - CFO AND TAX EXECUTIVES' PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE TAX Changing accounting standards and increased regulatory scrutiny will require new capabilities among tax teams, say the tax and finance executives surveyed for this report. In this study of more than 150 executives, respondents call for the tax department to play a greater role in business activities outside the core tax function. Tax executives, in particular, are eager for tax to make a more substantial contribution to business decision making. Most respondents say that leadership and managerial skills among senior tax executives will be increasingly important to their success. The research indicates that tax departments are recasting their business processes, building stronger leadership teams, and investing in new technology for tax. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by Deloitte Tax LLP THINKING THROUGH UNCERTAINTY - CFOS SCRUTINIZE NON-FINANCIAL RISK This study examines the role of the CFO and the finance function in management of non-financial risks. Through a series of interviews, senior finance executives reveal new concern for the internal and external factors that can compromise performance. This broader risk calculus considers uncontrollable disasters, along with factors that are linked to companies' strategic and operating decisions. Although the finance function is often in the best position to provide the "analytic engine" for enterprise-wide risk initiatives, executives say that risk management is emerging as an organization-wide discipline and endorse close collaboration between finance and business-unit management to evaluate and measure non-financial risk. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by IBM FOCUS SPENDING, INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY: FINANCE MANAGES COST WHILE ENABLING PRODUCTIVITY AT MID-SIZE COMPANIES Amid a modest decline in economic optimism, CFOs and their teams are focusing their attention on managing costs and improving operating performance. To do so, say the more than 300 finance executives surveyed in this study, companies will spend more on technology and services that boost employee productivity. This edition of our annual study on indirect expense management examines how companies use strategic vendors and various methods of payment to enable productivity, control costs, gather useful information, and get better deals with suppliers. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by American Express FINANCE CHIEFS REVEAL THE DOWNSIDE OF THEIR EXPANDED ROLE This study examines finance executives' views on their scope of responsibilities, how the corporate finance profession has changed in recent years, and their professional and personal satisfaction with their roles. How do higher expectations affect finance executives and the human capital strategy for their teams? As more and more finance executives add "manage personnel amid high turnover" to their lengthy management to-do lists, what steps can they take to ensure their companies, colleagues, and they themselves have the right resources and rewards? We sought to answer these and other questions in this study of U.S. companies-large and small, public and private, across a broad range of industries. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by Tatum PENSION PLAN RISK: USING THE CALM BEFORE THE NEXT STORM This report examines finance executives' views on the risks posed by their companies' defined benefit pension plans. Through a survey and interview program, finance executives affirm the role that defined benefit pension plays in companies' HR strategies, and they reveal that companies in both the U.S. and Europe are thinking more about how to sustain their pension plans than about how to shut them down. Changes in regulation and the prospect of mark-to-market accounting for pensions will, say executives, bring volatility to company financial statements and may well drive companies to recast the design and management of their defined benefit plans. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by Towers Perrin DISCIPLINE AND BALANCE DRIVE SUCCESS: INVESTMENT IN INFORMATION GATHERING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMS FINANCE In the past several years, many companies have invested heavily in technology systems for storing, analyzing, and reporting performance data—and the results of this study among 184 senior finance executives show that many of these investments have paid off handsomely. Yet there are significant gaps in companies' performance management capabilities—gaps in companies' ability to assess the external economic and market context in which they operate; gaps in their ability to understand their own operating information; gaps in their ability to understand the risks that threaten them; and gaps in their ability to respond meaningfully to changing business conditions. In this research program, we gained significant insight into the ways companies have filled these gaps through a combination of rigorous information gathering, structured risk review, and aggressive investment in IT. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by Cognos SALARY GUIDE FOR ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS (2007) This report, prepared by Ajilon Finance based on data gathered by CFO Research Services, discusses salary data and employment trends for 2007. The Salary Guide provides salary ranges, by region, for the most common accounting and finance jobs, plus insights into CFOs' top priorities, their views on compensation and employment opportunities in finance, and their forecasts for hiring in the coming year. Click here to download this report now. - Sponsored by Ajilon Finance More than 30 reports available in the following categories: Categories: - Financial and Performance Management - Enterprise Effectiveness - The CFO, Leadership, and People - Risk Management |
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