Managing Shared Service

Increasingly, organizations are being called upon to better manage and control costs, provide improved services, and leverage information more effectively. To address these challenges, many… Read More

What are some of best practices for setting up accounts receivable teams at financial shared services centers? How are organizations achieving AR success in these streamlined, yet still complex, hubs

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Shared services is the standardization, re-engineering, and consolidation of non-core functions within an organization. Many organizations operate accounts receivable from within a shared services… Read More

At Andersen Corporation (Bayport, MN), largest window and door manufacturer in North America, the secret to bringing in cash and having best-in-class DSOs is in aligning the AR process with the

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Risks to Shared Services Cost SavingsThird-party shared services cost savings are not guaranteed, and can be undermined by a variety of factors. One is an organization’s resistance to new ways of

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Throughout the steady trend to shared services by larger companies, finance and accounting have typically been the functions most commonly targeted for such consolidation. That’s because

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When Darin Ball, Vice President, Credit and Collections, first came on board at DS Services of America Inc., he found a silo structure separating the components of the order-to-cash process. AR &… Read More

Most AR case studies focus on a particular receivables, credit, or collections process that was improved or automated. In the case of Carrollton, Georgia-based Southwire, what’s interesting is the

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