The 5 Questions to Ask Your Controller

As the office of the controller becomes ever more strategic—creating higher levels of financial visibility to help drive growth and profitability—the financial organization’s relationship to the controller role must evolve as well. Specifically: Today’s CFO needs to work closely with the controller to ensure that, one, the organization gets the full benefit of the controller’s talents and knowledge and, two, the controller’s office is operating at the highest levels of efficiency and accuracy. Ask your controller the following five questions to initiate a conversation around best practices.

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Next Generation Financial Consolidations

Corporate accounting has long been viewed as custodian and curator of financial data. However, whether it’s bringing the data together or distributing the financial results broadly, the financial consolidation process has long been an onerous drudgery of information assembly, validation, and reporting. The consolidation process for many corporate accounting groups is sometimes measured in months, often measured in weeks, and rarely measured in days.

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Drive Procurement Cost Reduction with Fast and Accurate Data Insight

This White Paper explores three generations of spend analysis solutions, delving into some of the key challenges and roadblocks procurement experts face. We also detail our company’s brand-new product, D&B Spend Intelligence, which will empower current and future customers to take charge of their procurement strategy, using our comprehensive global business database, our advanced data analysis capabilities, integration tools and customizable dashboards.

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Identify Beneficial Ownership in a Not-so-transparent World

However, the limited accessibility, reliability and timeliness of beneficial ownership data on legal persons and legal arrangements are still the bottleneck preventing many businesses from effectively mitigating credit risks and compliance risks related to financial crimes such as corruption, tax evasion, and money laundering.

While it may take a longer time to realize full beneficial ownership transparency worldwide, it is important that regulated firms have a full grasp of the beneficial ownership due diligence-associated risks in the countries in which they conduct business. That knowledge will enable them to take a risk-based approach, leveraging the best available data and adopting measures to augment today’s beneficial ownership due diligence processes. The ultimate goal is not just to be compliant with the minimum regulatory requirements, but to prevent the business from significant risks.

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