Following a series of corporate scandals, legislators have company
executives in their sights, and are arming themselves with
ever-greater regulatory firepower. All agree that good governance
is essential – but must not be allowed to stifle business
performance.
Beyond Governance develops the concept of Enterprise
Governance, an emerging framework which unites Performance,
Conformance and Corporate Responsibility and shows how addressing
all of these areas in a concerted, coordinated fashion will deliver
value to the organisation and its stakeholders. In particular, it
focuses on the skills, processes and systems that are required to
deliver excellence in each of these areas, giving readers a
practical insight into the issues and an understanding of best
practice in each area.
Many firms are rethinking their finance activities in the light
of e-commerce, shared service centres, business intelligence
technology and cost pressures. Beyond Governance explores
the challenge of building a modern, flexible finance function,
describing the emerging role of the new CFO and how finance
professionals should respond to this new business environment.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction: Enterprise Governance.
PART I: Performance.
2. Developing Strategy.
3. Transactional Excellence.
4. Corporate Performance Management.
5. Driving Performance Through Better Cost Management.
6. Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting.
PART II: Conformance.
7. Better Enterprise Governance Through Better Reporting.
8. Corporate Governance.
9. Supporting Enterprise Governance: the Emerging Finance
Architecture.
PART III: Corporate Responsibility.
10. Corporate Responsibility.
11. Risk Management.
12. Conclusion: A Strategy for Finance Professionals.
Index.
Circa l’autore
Dr Martin Fahy is a senior lecturer in Accounting and
Information Systems at National University of Ireland,
Galway. He is a chartered accountant and holds a Ph D in
Informatics from UCC. Prior to joining NUI, Galway he worked as a
management consultant with KPMG. He has written extensively on the
areas of CPM, Business Intelligence, ERP systems and emerging
issues in Finance. He is currently an adjunct professor at the
Université d’Auvergne in France and is involved in
research in the areas of CPM/BI, and Strategic Enterprise
Management. His most recent books include ERP Leveraging the
Benefits (a joint venture with CIMA and Pw C) and Strategic
Enterprise Management Systems and An Executive guide to
Shared Services. Martin is convenor of the CIMA SEM Round Table
and is a member of the advisory board of the SBPOA. He is a former
Fulbright scholar and a holder of the ICAI award for excellence in
accounting education.
Jeremy Roche is CEO of The CODA Group, a global financial
software company based in the UK with offices in Europe, North
America and Asia-Pacific. He started his career at IBM, and held a
number of senior systems engineering and sales roles in IT
companies before joining Science Systems (now CODASci Sys plc,
parent company of The CODA Group) as Commercial Director in 1990.
He speaks regularly on financial strategy, corporate governance and
financial systems issues and is widely quoted in the finance and IT
press around the world.
Anastasia Weiner was a business journalist with a number
of newspapers before becoming a freelance business writer. She is
commissioned regularly by business magazines, newspapers and other
publications, as well as by professional business organisations
including Business in the Community. Her specialist areas of
writing include corporate responsibility, business regulation,
corporate governance, finance strategy and information technology.
She has interviewed and profiled numerous top business executives
and politicians including Bill Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani.
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