The Financial Controller and CFO's Toolkit, 3rd Edition

Index

1. Abandonment
   1. annual reporting processes
   2. preached by Peter Drucker
2. Accounts payable
   1. early closing
   2. “shame and name” lists
   3. ban payment by check
   4. buyer-created invoices
   5. changes in the balance of work (exhibit)
   6. electronic ordering
   7. frequent direct credit payment runs
   8. improving budget holder cooperation
   9. paperless
   10. purchasing card
   11. self-generated invoices
   12. the accounts payable network
   13. timing of payment runs
   14. welcome letter to new budget holders
   15. working with the main suppliers
3. Accounts payable systems
   1. payables automation (exhibit)
   2. providers and their applications (exhibit)
   3. technology to use (exhibit)
4. Accounts receivable
   1. aged debtors graph (exhibit)
   2. debtors' collection
   3. direct debiting
   4. early closing
   5. month-end bottlenecks
5. Accruals
   1. early closing
   2. setting materiality
6. Activity based costing
   1. Why you should avoid it
7. Agile techniques
8. Annual planning
   1. a burning platform
   2. questionable activity
   3. see budgeting and planning
   4. speed of (exhibit)
9. Annual reporting
   1. audit coordinator
   2. case studies
   3. collaborative disclosure software
   4. consolidation software
   5. controlling the last mile
   6. costing the process
   7. costing the process (exhibit)
   8. data capture
   9. draft agenda for the quick annual reporting workshop (exhibit)
   10. fixed assets verification
   11. get organized
   12. hard close month or
   13. help get the auditors organized
   14. intercompany software
   15. internal auditors
   16. management letter
   17. minimize year-end stress
   18. overs and unders schedule
   19. post-it re-engineering
   20. quality assurance
   21. renegotiate the auditor's deadline
   22. scrum meetings ...