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Shared Services in Finance and Accounting by T. Bangemann
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    • Product code: 20872
    • ISBN: 0566086077, ISBN13: 9780566086076, 256 pages, hardback
      Published by Gower Publishing on 2005 , 1st
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    Description of Shared Services in Finance and Accounting

    Most large companies worldwide today have some kind of shared services concept in place. Over half of the medium and large companies are currently engaged in some kind of shared service project activity. The investment in shared services is always calculated in millions. In other words, the costs of getting it right (or getting it wrong) can be huge. Tom Bangemann's book is a concise blueprint for identifying, assessing, designing, implementing and improving the process for shared services in the finance and accounting function. The author focuses on critical success factors, the people issues involved, and learning from other people's big mistakes. The book includes a variety of real life examples and real benchmarking data, performance metrics and best practices. The section on implementation is based on a proven five-phase methodology and explains the steps and activities involved as well as showing examples of the deliverables and the results you can expect.
    Any CEO, MD, CFO, Finance Director and senior finance people will find this book a 'must-have' guide to the process before they start and an excellent benchmark against which to measure the performance of any existing shared service operation.

    Contents of Shared Services in Finance and Accounting

    Introduction: why use shared services?
    The Basis for Shared Services: Processes Covered by Shared Service Organizations

    The Location of Shared Service Organizations
    Benefits and Obstacles to Setting Up a Shared Service Organization
    IT for Shared Service Organizations
    People - Incentives, Retention and Training
    Performance Measurement
    Service pricing and Service Level Agreements
    The Structure of Shared Service Organizations

    Implementing Shared Services: Pre-Assessment
    The Feasibility Study and Business Case
    Designing the Shared Service Organization
    Implementation
    Optimization

    Afterword: Future Trends
    Index.

    About T. Bangemann

    Tom Olavi Bangemann is Senior Director and the European Practice Leader at Answerthink, a US-based consulting group that also owns The Hackett Group, the world's leading best practice and benchmarking company. Tom has over 10 years' experience in accounting and consulting and has helped clients on over 25 shared service projects in the past 7 years, which included: all phases of the shared services lifecycle; a range of different industries, countries and company sizes; the internal shared services choice, as well as outsourcing to a BPO. Tom has been publishing articles on shared service topics for the past 5 years and appears regularly as an acknowledged expert in speaking and chairman roles on approximately 5-8 shared service-related conferences each year. Privately, Tom is married to Kristina Marie and they have a son called Ben.

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