FSN - Financial Reporting

CFOs gain mobile window into Record-to-Report (R2R) process with Cadency Mobile app

Trintech, a provider of integrated software solutions for the Last Mile of Finance, has announced the availability of the Cadency Mobile application at its 17^th Annual Customer Conference and Executive Circle in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Cadency mobile application will give CFO’s on the move immediate and complete visibility of the status of the entire record-to-report cycle. The Cadency mobile application is available for immediate release on iOS devices for customers of Cadency, with Android and Windows Mobile versions to come shortly.

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Infor launches Infor Cash and Treasury Management

Infor, has announced the expected availability early this summer of Infor Lawson Cash and Treasury Management and Infor Lawson AP Invoice Automation. Addressing complex financial challenges, these new applications are designed to help healthcare, public sector and service-based organizations implement automation processes, increase visibility, and improve collaboration, while driving organizational efficiencies.

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Consolidation in the Cloud

The move to Cloud – it’s about far more than just cost-saving

The benefits of cloud computing are firmly established for many CFOs. According to Gartner Research¹, 80 percent of Fortune 1000 enterprises will pay for Cloud computing services, and 30 percent will have paid for a cloud-computing infrastructure by the end of 2012. In more austere times the ability to save costs and simplify business processes is particularly welcome – but, as some organizations are discovering, the Cloud offers transformational qualities for certain business processes that reach well beyond the simple advantages originally envisaged by the transition to the Cloud. Chief among these is the financial close and consolidation process says Gary Simon managing editor of Financial Systems News.

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Technology is changing disclosure management

If you have any lingering doubts about the business significance of social media you may want to consider a recent report from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On 2 April it announced that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information, in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure, as long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate such information, says FSN writer, Lesley Meall.

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Adaptive Planning introduces Adaptive Consolidation product and enhancements for complete, integrated, cloud-based analytics suite

Adaptive Planning, a provider of cloud-based business analytics solutions for companies and nonprofits of all sizes, today announced the introduction of Adaptive Consolidation, a breakthrough new integrated cloud-based solution for comprehensive close-and-disclose financial consolidations and analysis. Adaptive Consolidation is available immediately.

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What can a financial controller do to make XBRL work better

Thousands of smaller US public companies will tag data in their annual reports for the first time this year. But getting it right may not be easy, as FSN writer Lesley Meall discovers.

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Trintech announces latest release of 'Cadency Complete'

Trintech the provider of integrated software solutions for the Last Mile of Finance, has announced the general availability of Cadency™ Complete Version 1.5, Trintech’s ground-breaking Financial Disclosure Management solution. The latest version extends Cadency Complete’s ‘Best in Class’ technology from Microsoft, Adobe and Fujitsu to help companies gain a higher level of integration, accuracy and control within their entire Record-to-Report (R2R) process.

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Keepmoat selects Tagetik to streamline consolidation and reporting processes

Keepmoat a UK provider of community regeneration, repairs and maintenance, sustainability, and housing solutions has selected Tagetik’s Performance Management solution to manage its financial consolidation and reporting processes on top of Microsoft SQL Server.

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Cadency™ "Restoring the Rhythm of Finance™ to the Record-to-Report Process"

Despite the supreme importance of the Record to Report (R2R) process, it is historically one of the most neglected and fragmented management processes. It is clear that existing approaches to financial governance based on loosely coupled suites of ERP/CPM applications, spreadsheets and collections of niche applications sourced from multiple vendors are not delivering the ‘goods’. So is it time to call change?

In this white paper, Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor, examines “Cadency™”, a ground-breaking solution from Trintech which has been designed from the outset to offer a paradigm shift in the way that the R2R process is managed and which in one overarching environment brings together the key elements of reconciliation, tasks and issue monitoring (Certification); risk assessment and controls (Compliance) and the management of financial documents, e-filings, XBRL and disclosures (Completion).

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New Oracle tax provisioning product aligns corporate tax functions with HFM users

In a move that will be broadly welcomed by large corporates and HFM users around the world Oracle has announced a new application that allows customers to collect, calculate and report on the consolidated tax provision and more closely align tax provisioning with financial reporting.

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