Sat.Sep 19, 2015 - Fri.Sep 25, 2015

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5 EPM Best Practices to Implement Right Now

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1. Choose the Right EPM System. Selecting an EPM system that doesn’t meet your current and future needs is short-sighted and can lead to the need to replace the system within a few years. When evaluating and selecting an EPM system, organizations need to consider their current as well as future requirements. Ask yourself the following questions; Will we need to heavily customize the system to meet our immediate needs?

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Management Accounting – Helping Accountants Grow the Beans

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Despite some advances in the application of new costing techniques such as activity-based costing, are management accountants adequately satisfying the needs of managers and employee teams for decision-based cost information? Or is the gap widening? That is, are the accountants still just counting the beans, or are they helping to grow the beans? There is a difference between what management accountants report and what managers and employee teams want.