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10 Top Tips for a profitable 2012

To ensure your business not only grows, but thrives, in 2012, it is more important than ever to put a plan in place to build an organisation with the agility and resilience to handle whatever lies in store.
This invaluable 10 point plan is designed specifically to help Finance Directors create and implement a growth strategy built on rock solid foundations for not just 2012, but for many years to come!

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Your essential 10-point winter planning checklist

In this handy guide, we offer a quick 10-point checklist to ensure you're well prepared for the worst the weather may bring, as well as offer a variety of hints and tips to increase your reslience and ensure you keep your business engine running this winter!

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Building the case for a new business and accounting system

Investing in a new financial system may seem a strange way to conserve budget but it can be one of the best decisions you’ll ever make in improving efficiency and reducing your costs. This new paper looks at how investing in the future could actually reduce your costs now and provides a 12 point checklist for assessing the potential of a new system.

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Tightening the Noose on Bad Debt

Bad debt prevention should not just be the responsibility of the finance function but of the company as a whole. This whitepaper looks at the contribution that non-finance employees can make to prevent bad debt accumulating and provides 10 tops tips for ensuring bad debt becomes a company wide concern.

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The seven secrets of KPIs

This whitepaper looks at the seven secrets behind the successful monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs)and provides a ‘best practice’ guide to getting the most from defining and achieving your selected KPIs.

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Eight attributes of successful FDs

It works for them. Could it work for you? We highlight the practical and proactive ways in which these FDs step back from constant fire-fighting to take a more strategic approach.