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This is risky, as critical business information may be undeliverable to stakeholders in the event of sickness or staff movements.", "productivity":"5","risk":"5","team":"5","stakeholder":"5", "question1":"Are your management reports robust? Are they unquestionably accurate across the board, and do they all internally agree with each other?", "question2":"Does your team spend a significant amount of their monthly cycle producing reports instead of providing value-add analysis?", "question3":"Are you overly dependent on one (or few) people who are the only ones capable of producing the reports required?" }, {"name":"Planning & Forecasting", "id":solutionId++,"roles":"manager","industries":"", "overview":"Planning & Forecasting is a vital process within any organisation. Getting your future performance measures accurate is critical when the market is moving either up or down, or when any strategic decisions need to be made. 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Under the pressures of month-end, there is little time to get things wrong, review and make adjustments and report to the Board. We can put in place a system that fully automates the data gathering, consolidation and reporting process, so that Head Office finance staff (including the CFO) can review the numbers. Adjustments can be made in source systems, and reflected in consolidated reports within the hour.", "productivity":"5", "risk":"4", "team":"5", "stakeholder":"3", "question1":"How do you consolidate financial data from multiple disparate systems and make necessary adjustments?", "question2":"Is the month-end consolidation & reporting exercise fully automated and are you able to repeat the process quickly to allow for late adjustments?", "question3":"How much time is spent managing the forecasting & budgeting process? Is this a process that staff dread? 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