In my previous articles on the changing role of finance, I have mentioned about business partnering against transaction processing.
Here in this article, I would like to elaborate further that to be able to do business partnering with other operating managers it is essential that we should first:
Know/Understand The Business Very Well :

Shows a good understanding […]

In a meeting or workshop amongst your fellow operating managers where you are presenting certain salient points you might hear your top or senior management addressing you or your staff as from “Accounts” teams.
How do you feel about this?
Well by asking such a question you might think that I am trying to be sensitive […]

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Assuming you the group treasurer, your management would like to gauge your performance on the area on foreign exchange management. So what are the factors to consider?

The factors to consider might include the following:

Identification of the purpose of performance measurement;
At what level should measurement take […]

In my articles on transformation of finance role and the recent article on finance personnel embarking another role of gathering and analyzing the financial competitive analysis, I again now touch on another critical mass of finance role which is financial planning.
Gone are the days, when keeping the books of account accurately and the timely submission […]

In my previous articles on the changing role of Finance, there were mentioned about finance’s business partnering with other operating managers, the importance to emulate certain traits of world class finance team, seeking and improving performance metrics like cash conversion cycle and many others.
Today’s article reported in The Star pertained to an actual successful Malaysian, […]