According to research conducted in March 2012 by APQC in partnership with IEG, 81 percent of large corporations are currently investing in at least one major program to improve financial management processes. This is a marked departure from previous efforts and has significant implications for CFOs and financial managers across all industries.

Many managers think they’ve committed their organizations to evidence-based decision making — but have instead, without realizing it, committed to decision-based evidence making. Is that all bad? What can be done to fix it?

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has, for the first time, published an International Standard for business continuity management. ISO 22301:2012. This link provides a shortcut to this new standard.

Projectsmart.co.uk explores trends and developments in project management. In this article Jorge Dominguez notes that in the real world project managers are given the finish date of the project before they even have a chance to plan for it. He notes that this is a good enough reason to get better at scheduling projects and levelling finite resources.

In early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Adam Bryant of The New York Times explores the mundane and surprising results that came out of this exercise.

In the second session of this two-part series, David Parmenter focuses on strategic issues including balanced scorecard reporting, KPIs, and the impact lean accounting has on reporting. Utilize practice templates to report financials and performance measures and discover how to make your reports more concise, interesting, and action-focused.

In the first session of this two-part series, David Parmenter delivers insights on how to focus on reporting the daily, weekly, and monthly information that makes a difference to management. Utilize practice templates to report financials and performance measures and discover how to make your reports more concise, interesting, and action-focused.

IT security expert Peter Davis reviews the basic methodology, objectives, and concerns of an information security review. Learn why it is important for all organizations to perform an information security review and receive a solid foundation on how to evaluate your security systems, identify common vulnerabilities and threats, and acquire the simple tools needed to complete a full review.

Gain a solid understanding of how to use the built-in date and time functions in Microsoft Excel and how to use them in your own work to perform complex calculations when managing payroll, holiday hours, and large project schedules. Join Excel guru Ken Puls and learn how to optimize the use of dates and times in Excel using a set of entertaining scenarios.

The Canadian workforce is facing a huge amount of change over the next 10 years, particularly in who we work with and how we work together. This webcast will take a closer look at important aspects, namely generational influences, values, and communication styles in the workplace. It will address how they impact your workplace, and how to use this transition period as an opportunity for workplace effectiveness and success.