"The perfect balance between value and cost where finance is viewed as both creating significant business value through the effective deployment of finance strategy and practices while doing so at the lowest possible cost."
Denise Kluthe, Assistant Controller and Director – GBS Financial Accounting Services, Alcoao

Essential Advice for Success

Wherever you are on the journey, Creating a world-class finance function will give you clear answers to big questions about how to define realistic goals, manage expectations – both inside function and throughout the organisation - bridge the credibility gap with business managers, cultivate the right skills and talents for the new finance function and develop the new tools and processes you will need.

You will find an unparalleled range of smart ideas, research-based evidence and sound advice from finance directors and leading experts to provide you with a clear guide on how to achieve world-class standards of performance.

Use the Report to find solutions to a range of transformational issues including how to:

• Change the culture of finance and build closer relationships with every level of the organization
• Develop essential skills for business partnering
• Extend finance’s role in managing business risk.

Apply the action tips – summarising key lessons – throughout the report - along with chapter checklists - to create your own transformation agenda.