Fahy / Weiner / Roche Beyond Governance

Creating Corporate Value through Performance, Conformance and Responsibility
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-01304-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

Following a series of corporate scandals, legislators have companyexecutives in their sights, and are arming themselves withever-greater regulatory firepower. All agree that good governanceis essential - but must not be allowed to stifle businessperformance.
Beyond Governance develops the concept of EnterpriseGovernance, an emerging framework which unites Performance,Conformance and Corporate Responsibility and shows how addressingall of these areas in a concerted, coordinated fashion will delivervalue to the organisation and its stakeholders. In particular, itfocuses on the skills, processes and systems that are required todeliver excellence in each of these areas, giving readers apractical insight into the issues and an understanding of bestpractice in each area.
Many firms are rethinking their finance activities in the lightof e-commerce, shared service centres, business intelligencetechnology and cost pressures. Beyond Governance exploresthe challenge of building a modern, flexible finance function,describing the emerging role of the new CFO and how financeprofessionals should respond to this new business environment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fahy, Martin

Weiner, Anastasia

Roche, Jeremy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction: Enterprise Governance.
PART I: Performance.
2. Developing Strategy.
3. Transactional Excellence.
4. Corporate Performance Management.
5. Driving Performance Through Better Cost Management.
6. Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting.
PART II: Conformance.
7. Better Enterprise Governance Through Better Reporting.
8. Corporate Governance.
9. Supporting Enterprise Governance: the Emerging FinanceArchitecture.
PART III: Corporate Responsibility.
10. Corporate Responsibility.
11. Risk Management.
12. Conclusion: A Strategy for Finance Professionals.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Martin Fahy is a senior lecturer in Accounting andInformation Systems at National University of Ireland,Galway. He is a chartered accountant and holds a PhD inInformatics from UCC. Prior to joining NUI, Galway he worked as amanagement consultant with KPMG. He has written extensively on theareas of CPM, Business Intelligence, ERP systems and emergingissues in Finance. He is currently an adjunct professor at theUniversité d'Auvergne in France and is involved inresearch in the areas of CPM/BI, and Strategic EnterpriseManagement. His most recent books include ERP Leveraging theBenefits (a joint venture with CIMA and PwC) and StrategicEnterprise Management Systems and An Executive guide toShared Services. Martin is convenor of the CIMA SEM Round Tableand is a member of the advisory board of the SBPOA. He is a formerFulbright scholar and a holder of the ICAI award for excellence inaccounting education.
Jeremy Roche is CEO of The CODA Group, a global financialsoftware company based in the UK with offices in Europe, NorthAmerica and Asia-Pacific. He started his career at IBM, and held anumber of senior systems engineering and sales roles in ITcompanies before joining Science Systems (now CODASciSys plc,parent company of The CODA Group) as Commercial Director in 1990.He speaks regularly on financial strategy, corporate governance andfinancial systems issues and is widely quoted in the finance and ITpress around the world.
Anastasia Weiner was a business journalist with a numberof newspapers before becoming a freelance business writer. She iscommissioned regularly by business magazines, newspapers and otherpublications, as well as by professional business organisationsincluding Business in the Community. Her specialist areas ofwriting include corporate responsibility, business regulation,corporate governance, finance strategy and information technology.She has interviewed and profiled numerous top business executivesand politicians including Bill Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani.