finance

From professional services and hospitality to healthcare and retail, businesses thrive when they have fast, reliable Internet connections. You need reliable connections to send sales transactions, upload files, transmit payroll data, and take advantage of cloud-based applications for sales, finance, and shipping. Then remember all of the different devices in your office – like mobile phones, wearables, tablets, and even desktop phones – and the need becomes even greater.

Explorez les stratégies mises en place par les entreprises pour gérer le changement dans ce rapport Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, sponsorisé par Workday. Découvrez comment les entreprises utilisent un système Cloud Finance et RH unifié pour prendre des décisions basées sur des données, améliorer la collaboration et développer des méthodes de planification alliant visibilité, vitesse et précision.

Providing all employees with easy, timely access to information is critical in today’s business landscape. Discover how a cloud-based system gives you a single source of truth, across the entire business, so you get data that’s trustworthy, actionable, and available in real time.

Explore the strategies companies are pursuing to manage change in this Workday-sponsored Harvard Business Review Analytic Services report. See how organisations use a single cloud-based system for finance and HR to create data-led decision-making, support C-suite collaboration, and develop planning methods with better insight, accuracy, and speed.

Why is growth so hard to achieve? Why do some organisations succeed and others fail? In this whitepaper, Zook lays out the roots causes of success and failure and offers strategies to help established organisations generate growth.

Are you a finance leader looking to get on track with digitisation? With insight from over 650 global finance leaders, this report examines the top priorities for financial transformation and provides a valuable road map for successfully redefining the finance function. Download the report now.

Auditing shouldn’t take your attention away from driving strategy and profitability. With a single cloud-based system for finance, you get compliance, controls, and audit capabilities all in one place. This streamlines the auditing processes and ensures security. Focus on business and let Workday do the rest.

Looking for a trusted partner in financial management who has what it takes to lead your organisation today and into the future? Get an analysis of the market, key recommendations for evaluating vendors, and more. Download your complimentary copy of Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites.

Auditing shouldn’t take your attention away from driving strategy and profitability. With a single cloud-based system for finance, you get compliance, controls, and audit capabilities all in one place. This streamlines the auditing processes and ensures security. Focus on business and let Workday do the rest.

Explore the strategies companies are pursuing to manage change in this Workday-sponsored Harvard Business Review Analytic Services report. See how organisations use a single cloud-based system for finance and HR to create data-led decision-making, support C-suite collaboration, and develop planning methods with better insight, accuracy, and speed.

Are you a finance leader looking to get on track with digitisation? With insight from over 650 global finance leaders, this report examines the top priorities for financial transformation and provides a valuable road map for successfully redefining the finance function. Download the report now.

Cash may be popular with consumers, but it often presents challenges and extra costs for retailers. Manually handling, counting, reconciling and depositing cash every day, or multiple times a day, can be expensive. Smart safe technology and automated cash handling can help and benefit all areas of your business – from Finance to Operations to Loss Prevention – but, more importantly, your customers. Read this eBook to learn the four key benefits of automated cash handling: • Maximize your cash flow • Gain more flexibility with open systems • Reduce shrinkage and reconciliation • Care for customers instead of counting cash

ERP Must-Haves for Finance: Leave behind cumbersome reporting, spreadsheets, and data that offers zero insights. IDC MarketScape has put together a guide to help you find the best finance and accounting applications. Read an excerpt of the report to learn today’s must-have ERP capabilities and why the IDC MarketScape positioned Workday in the Leaders category.

Meet the complex needs of your healthcare organization with a single cloud-based system that combines analytics, planning, finance, and HR for more comprehensive supply chain management. Read the datasheet to learn how you can: Reduce supply chain costs while improving inventory control, gain deep insight into the cost, quantity, and utilization of your supplies, and identify purchasing trends and standardize opportunities.

From the rise of data analytics to new needs in budgeting, the shift to value-based medicine is bringing a fresh set of challenges to healthcare CFOs. How can you best meet these new demands and turn change into opportunity? This Becker’s Hospital Review eBook compiles 10 must-read articles that offer executive tips, actionable insights, and noteworthy trends for healthcare finance technology.

In this webinar, Argyle, IBM, and Workday discuss how finance leaders are using innovative technologies and smarter talent to increase customer and employee engagement, drive efficiency, and enable finance to be a strategic partner despite disruption. Watch the replay now.

Become an innovation leader when you move your company’s financial management to the cloud. Read this CFO webcast brief to gain insights into why you should change to a cloud-based finance system, how the cloud can reshape the role of CFO, and what to know before transitioning.

"In this webinar, Argyle, IBM, and Workday discuss how finance leaders are using innovative technologies and smarter talent to increase customer and employee engagement, drive efficiency, and enable finance to be a strategic partner despite disruption. Watch the replay now. "

Are you a finance leader looking to get on track with digitization? With insight from over 650 global finance leaders, this report examines the top priorities for financial transformation and provides a valuable road map for successfully redefining the finance function. Download the report now.

" Looking to start the evaluation process for a new technology provider? This complete guide for midsize organizations walks you through how to prepare for your evaluation and what your company should look for in a vendor, so you can be confident in your search and selection. Read the guide now. "

The data deluge problem isn’t just about the amount of internal, operational data being stored, but also the level of granularity available. The finance and HR teams of many institutions still operate on outdated systems that are only able to store aggregate data with complex details summarized. While these systems may be sufficient for the purpose of financial reporting, they’re unable to keep up with the level of complexity needed to drive business decisions.

How does Patagonia create its enviable culture for 2,500 employees across the world, achieve a 4 percent corporate turnover, and manage to provide on-site childcare? We sat down with Dean Carter, Patagonia’s head of Shared Services for Finance, HR, and Legal, to find out what life is like at the “un-company” and learn Patagonia’s secret for HR success.

It’s hard to imagine a world without Netflix. Yet less than 20 years ago, the world’s leading internet television network was nothing more than an idea and a vision. To meet incredible global demand and figure out how to expand rapidly, Netflix turned to Workday to help scale its resources quickly and modernize its systems. Check out this compelling story from Netflix to discover how Workday enabled Netflix to consolidate 11 systems into 1, streamline workflows, increase visibility, and bring its HR, IT, and finance functions together as a single team.

The findings of FSN’s Innovation in the Finance Function global survey prove insightful and compelling—and highlight the critical role that innovative planning technology plays in the field of finance. Organizations today are evolving their operating models in conjunction with rising globalization, the value of big data, technological advances, regulatory changes, and demographic shifts. They are also in pursuit of business growth with the same or—in some cases—fewer resources than before.

For many years, large corporations have employed financial planning and analysis professionals to oversee budgeting, planning, forecasting and analysis. But the sea-change in technology, data and the competitive landscape is having a sustained impact on the FP&A function as it transforms from a predominately budgeting function to a forward-focussed strategic contributor. Now, as new cloud technology makes implementing modern FP&A quicker and cheaper, the function has become more accessible to medium-sized, or even smaller, organisations. There is a nascent but growing realisation that this corner of the finance function should be demanding more of an organisation’s attention, large or small, because having accurate and timely visibility, further into the future, could mean the difference between success and failure in today’s highly uncertain and volatile business environment.