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It's time to take a fresh look at the finance function

Four years ago Gregory Hackett, co-founder of the US-based Hackett group, famously said that “by the year 2005 the finance function as we know it, will have changes beyond all recognition”.

Even now in 2002, the finance function has already changed dramatically, having had to face a market boom and bust, the birth of e-business, the impact of global recession, an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions and dealing with the introduction of the euro.

A new report from Business Intelligence, 'Value Creation: Building Tomorrow's Finance Function' sets out the new challenges the finance function will face and points the way forward for those ready to take up the challenge. The report reveals:

• How Finance can move forward and lead the organization in a coherent and planned way while facing constant and unexpected change
• Completely new research from Hackett Benchmarking, the world's leading organization for measuring the performance of the finance function
• The significant changes of the past five years and the actions that the finance function must take to succeed over the next decade
• New and up-to-date case studies and case reports from leading organizations including HP Bulmer, Halifax Bank, Skandia, DHL, BT and British Nuclear Fuels
• The new skills required by tomorrow’s finance function including the ever-important skill of managing risk.