Name: How Lack of Financial Visibility Affects Decision Making
Start: 2023-05-18T09:00:00Z
End: 2023-05-18T09:00:33.000Z
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For more than 20 years, Oracle NetSuite has helped organizations grow, scale and adapt to change. NetSuite provides an integrated system that includes financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), inventory management, HR, professional services automation and omnichannel commerce, used by more than 24,000 customers in 203 countries and dependent territories.

Streamline Your Chart of Accounts.

The chart of accounts is the foundation of your financial and accounting data. A rigid account structure and mile-long naming conventions make it difficult to compare locations, departments, and products.

The result? More manual tasks on your to do list and less data for decision-making.

Join this product demonstration webinar and learn how to:
- Improve operational tracking with tailored reporting segments.
- Optimize financial visibility with multidimensional data and reports.
- Reduce complexity with a simplified chart of accounts.
- Save time by minimizing the risk of accounting errors.

Optimize Financial Visibility and Reporting

The CFO’s AI Breakdown: Growing AI expectations for CFOs.

Though the full ramifications of artificial intelligence—both good and bad—are still unclear, its promise is enticing. Tools like ChatGPT have caught the attention of the masses; but other instances of AI and, more often, machine learning have undoubtably made businesses more productive.

In particular, CFOs and finance professionals are gearing up for yet more change to their already evolving role. As strategic leaders, they are uniquely positioned to determine what the impact of AI will be on their organization.

Join this session as we discuss how AI can impact the finance function and how to harness it for your team’s benefit, including:
- Understanding the difference between machine learning and true artificial intelligence.
- How AI and ML technology is being embedded in business applications.
- Why CFOs and controllers are adopting AI with cautious optimism.

The CFO’s AI Breakdown

Gain Deeper Insights Using NetSuite Analytics Warehouse

Outmanoeuvring the competition requires timely, business insights you can trust. That’s why data visualizations of business performance trends are so essential to quickly identify where to focus and how to capitalize for growth.

View this product demonstration webinar to learn about NetSuite Analytics Warehouse and how it can help you make better decisions for your services-based business.

Optimize revenue management with the new subscription-centric product management module to:

Build analyses combining NetSuite and non-NetSuite data for deeper insights.
Identify and grow your ideal customer base.
Forecast and plan core customer and market expansions for increased margins and business growth.
Track, control and predict expenses for tighter, more profitable financial management.

Find Your Key Revenue Drivers Using Analytics

Whether speaking to the board or solidifying a seat at the table, women aren’t always given the opportunity to make their voices heard. Particularly in finance roles it can be difficult to earn the trust and credibility that their counterparts are often afforded. Yet as the role of the CFO continues to change—now encompassing everything from data analysis to crisis management—women are uniquely positioned to bring companies much needed gender diversity that can have a significant impact on an organization’s performance and sustainability.

Watch our webinar, where we’ll discuss the importance of female finance leaders honing in on and developing their authentic voice by:
- Extending their influence beyond the finance team.
- Driving focus on strategic growth initiatives.
- Improving efficiency with automation.
- Preparing for regulatory changes.
- Communicating with impact.

Women Who Mean Business: Strengthen Your Voice as CFO

Share and collaborate to put insights into action.
Aligning strategy with execution comes about by understanding the reasons behind your financial figures. This is possible with the slicing and dicing capabilities of multidimensional data reporting, for details into the operational drivers creating success or slowing the business down.

View this product demonstration webinar to learn how NetSuite’s multidimensional reporting capabilities can:
- Define and apply dimensions to account data.
- Drill-down and analyze financial and operational data across multiple dimensions, like subsidiary, customer, or product.
- Surface and report on impactful insights into operational performance, your customers and suppliers.

Multidimensional Financial Reporting

Develop meaningful, trusted KPIs and reports.

Narrowing down the right KPIs for your business is more critical than ever, whether you’ve been newly tasked with creating KPIs for your company, improving existing ones, or looking for guidance on how to implement a measurement system.

View this webinar as Bernie Smith, author of KPI Checklists, shares highlights of his step-by-step guide. We discuss how to:
- Ensure strategic objectives are clear for fully functional dashboards and reports.
- Engage stakeholders, including developing a communication plan when sharing data.
- Develop your short and longlist measures, including defining KPIs, utilizing reports and dashboards, and implementing processes to gather information

CFO’s Ultimate KPI Checklist

La nube juega un papel cada vez más importante en la estrategia comercial. En 2022, el mercado español creció un 22% respecto al año anterior. Pero, ¿cómo puede un ERP en la nube conseguir que las empresas sigan siendo resilientes, alcancen sus objetivos comerciales y maximicen las oportunidades que se avecinan?
Descubrir cómo las empresas españolas pueden mantenerse ágiles a la hora de adaptarse en tiempos impredecibles y, a través de casos de uso, veremos cuáles son las oportunidades y los beneficios de pasar a una verdadera plataforma ERP en la nube.

Cloud ERP: ¿Cómo capturar el verdadero valor del cambio?

How data-driven CFOs focus on metrics that matter.

Are smart finance leaders monitoring the metrics that are most relevant in their current business landscape—or relying on outdated ones?
As metrics shift, data-driven CFOs are working to identify which matter the most to their business and drive performance.

In this session we discuss reevaluating metrics and choosing those that truly matter, including topics like:
- Why it’s important to frequently review and update your metrics.
- How to identify the metrics you should track to measure business performance, as well as using the resulting numbers to set strategy.
- What top-performing businesses in various industries are doing to address and incorporate their evolving metrics.

Smart CFOs’ Make or Break Metrics

Priorities changed quickly for companies in 2021, but have those changes led to more permanent approaches to business? Yes and no.

According to our latest survey of 148 respondents from across a variety of industries, many executives are refocusing on business fundamentals in the year ahead—with the wind of optimism at their backs.

As we explore these findings and other leading strategies, you will learn in this webinar:

- Top priorities for marketing in support of new customer acquisition.
- Spending rebounds in technology, talent and capital expenditures.
- Continued focus on ecommerce and digital marketing efforts.
- Remaining concerns around supply chain stability.

Speakers:
- Jason Balk, Chief Financial Officer, Adtegrity
- Sue Vestri, Chief Financial Officer, Greenphire
- Eileen Tobias, Chief Financial Officer, Komodo Health
- Megan O'Brien, Business and Finance Editor, Oracle NetSuite
- Ramon Ray, Entrepreneur and Small Business Expert, Moderator

The Future of Business: Gearing for Growth

Collecting good, timely data with careful analysis is critical to thriving in business today. But collecting data and using it wisely is a complicated skill in itself. With so much data available, how do finance leaders decide which metrics matter most? Learn how CFOs and Finance leaders select metrics and the ones they care about most.

Speaker:
Thomas Sutter Centre of Excellence, Finance & Global Solutions Oracle NetSuite

Mind Your KPIs - How Companies Monitor Key Metrics

How to create efficient processes and prioritize data.
The world of finance is changing rapidly. New technologies, regulations, and customer demands are putting pressure on finance teams and CFOs to adapt and transform.

In this presentation, we take a fresh look at finance transformation. We discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities for finance teams. We also share practical strategies that you can implement immediately.

View this virtual event as Chris Ortega, CEO of Fresh FP&A, shares how to transform your finance team into a strategic partner. He discusses how to build strong business relationships, create efficient processes, and prioritize data. What you will learn:
- The latest trends in finance transformation.
- The challenges and opportunities facing finance teams.
- The 6 key pillars of finance transformation.
- Practical insights you can implement immediately to start transforming your finance organization.

The Fresh View on CFO Transformation

If you’re startup is looking to scale, there are a number of tools you will need in place which are paramount.

In partnership with Station F (business incubator for startups), join our session to hear from an early stage startup and a mature startup on how they have used different tools to their advance and how usage may have changed throughout their journeys. We'll talk about different tools with a focus on ERP, customer support tools, and acquisition ones.

Speakers:
- Arnaud Pigueller, Cofounder & CEO at SnapCall
- Sophie Gambet, Cofounder at Creative Underwear for Men
- Marwan Elfitesse, Head of Startup Programs at STATION F
- Richard Cutler, SuiteSuccess Lead EMEA at Oracle NetSuite

The essential tools for startups looking to scale

Oracle NetSuite webinar: All About NetSuite ERP. Increase visibility, improve control, and enhance agility.

To achieve lasting success, a business must be able to adapt to changing conditions, spot new opportunities, and deliver top-notch products and service that keeps customers coming back. Relying on entry-level software and manual processes to support your business only makes success harder to achieve.

Watch this product demonstration webinar and see how NetSuite ERP can help you:
- Simplify your business by managing accounting, inventory, operations and more in a single system.
- Gain visibility to financial, operational and transactional data from across the organization.
- Automate manual processes to save time and free up resources.
- Adjust quickly to changing customer preferences, competitive threats or other requirements.

All About NetSuite ERP

Lead with analytics and business intelligence

The role of the CFO has transformed from that of a historical record keeper to a forward-looking strategist. While historical financial metrics will always be important to management and investors, new data science tools and methodologies can and should be applied to business data to extract greater value.

Watch this interview with Deep Finance: Corporate Finance in the Information Age author, Glenn Hopper, as we discuss how to:

Expand your role as CFO through business intelligence and analytics.
Identify trends and better analyse and collect data to make stronger financial decisions.
Become a “new age CFO” who can make better financial decisions and identify where your company is moving.

Speakers: Glenn Hopper, CFO, Sandline Global | Ranga Bodla, VP, Field Engagement & Marketing, Oracle NetSuite

From Startup to Scaleup: What CFOs Need to Know About Technology

Oracle NetSuite webinar in partnership with CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants): Cloud, automation and AI shaping the future of finance. How to become future-ready.

There has been a quantum leap in tech adoption among businesses. The popularity of new technologies will only accelerate - results from our NetSuite survey of 500 CFOs and other financial leaders, with 90% of them stating they will use automation, AI and fintech by 2024. With purse strings tightened, and CEOs and owners in many industries asking their leadership teams to address spending priorities, what technology should you adopt to ensure you can become future-ready?
Join this webinar as our expert explores how finance departments can organise for the future, using technology to enhance efficiency, flexibility and scalability to support quick and accurate decision making to drive profitability.  

Discussion topics include: 
• Assess your companies present, and future business applications needs. 
• Adopt and build in technology to improve efficiency, data collection and decision-making.
• How technology can support in providing meaningful, real-time insights.

Cloud, automation and AI shaping the future of finance

Oracle NetSuite virtual event: Keys to a Faster Financial Close. Automate Close Processes and Simplify Financial Reporting.

Hunting down data from other departments, making sure all transactions are recorded, finding and fixing errors… it’s no wonder finance teams dread the close process. It doesn’t need to be this way. Technology eases and accelerates the financial close by automating manual tasks, minimizing reliance on spreadsheets, and improving the flow of information across the business. The result: Decision-makers have the insights they need, when they need them.

Watch this webinar and see how NetSuite helps:
- Track deadline progress in real-time.
- Automate close processes.
- Reduce manual data entry.
- Simplify financial reporting.

CFOs: Keys to a Faster Financial Close

Oracle NetSuite webinar: Simplified Multinational, Multi-Entity Financial Consolidation.

Synchronize Data, Consolidate Results and Close Faster.

Operating domestic or international subsidiaries, business units and other legal entities can make producing timely, accurate financial reports a real challenge. Combining data from multiple systems using different currencies and accounting rules is time consuming and a potential source of errors.

View this product demonstration and learn how NetSuite simplifies financial consolidation:
- Synchronize subsidiary-level data with headquarters accounts in real time.
- Avoid errors by eliminating manual currency conversion.
- Easily comply with international accounting rules.
- Accelerate financial reporting and close the books faster.

Simplified Multinational, Multi-Entity Financial Consolidation

Oracle NetSuite Virtual Event: Eliminate the Pain of Intercompany Accounting. Save time, improve visibility, and reduce errors.

Keeping track of intercompany cross charges, account balances, and settlements can be a real chore for many businesses, especially if your accounting systems don't work well together. And if not done right, it can impact financial statements and create compliance issues.

See how NetSuite ERP can help you:
- Minimize risk by improving intercompany accounting accuracy and consistency.
- Easily identify and settle intercompany balances with automated payables/receivables netting.
- Automatically post, match and reconcile pre-approved cross charges.
- Accelerate the close process and consolidate financial statements faster and with fewer headaches.

CFO: Eliminate the Pain of Intercompany Accounting

Oracle NetSuite webinar: How Lack of Financial Visibility Affects Decision Making. Financial Reporting & Analytics Tools for Better-Informed Decisions.

Timely, accurate financial data is a must have for effective decision making. Unfortunately, many accounting systems make it difficult to take advantage of this data. Inflexible reports, limited analytics, and reliance on spreadsheets result in poor financial visibility and suboptimal decisions.

Watch this product demonstration webinar and see how NetSuite’s reporting and analytics capabilities:
- Improve decision making by putting essential tools and information in front of each user.
- Enable team members to identify opportunities, monitor performance, and improve results.
- Provide flexibility to tailor reports and metrics for different audiences and user preferences.
- Enhance security by controlling access to sensitive financial data.

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