- IFRS16 – Tackling the Challenge (3/27/2017) - Your company will have to comply with the new IFRS16 standard? Your respective processes are not yet clearly defined? This paper explains the key challenges you will be facing and how an optimized tool support should look like. It discusses why most of the existing solutions are not ideally suited to support IFRS16. And it concludes by presenting an interesting, SAP-based lease management solution. IFRS16 – What’s the change? In early 2016 the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued ‘IFRS 16 Leases’. It sets out principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases for both the lessee and… Read More
- Lightweight KPI-planning in a complex organization? It’s possible! (3/23/2017) - Imagine a major business unit in a global technology company that wants to implement a slim and efficient solution for the bottom-up planning of central key performance indicators without the complexity and overhead of a massive planning application. Centrally defined KPIs and a global data consistency should be achieved while local units are given a high degree of freedom in how to derive these KPIs. Stampa & Partners developed a taylor-made solution that bridged the gap between diversity and consistency in planning. The Starting Point – Spreadsheets and Manual Efforts For a global company in a competitive and very dynamic… Read More
- Thoughts on Planning: Scenarios are good – but just don’t overdose (2/6/2017) - Planning means to anticipate the most probable future development of a company. But how can a company handle the uncertainty that is immanent in planning? The future development of a company depends on a number of side conditions. Many of them can not or only partly be influenced by the company itself: currency exchange rates, market price development, behaviour of competitors etc. Why you should think about scenarios pro-actively The logical consequence is that whenever planning data are derived, assumptions have to be made with regards to these uncertain parameters. If a company does not pro-actively control this, the users… Read More
- Do you really want to know how good you are? (1/31/2017) - You want to know how your own corporate planning processes are positioned compared to benchmark companies? Then take part in Benchmark 2017 Invitation to Benchmark 2017 You want to know how your own corporate planning processes are positioned compared to benchmark companies? You want to get an objective evaluation of your processes based on a sophisticated maturity model? You want to develop ideas for the optimization of your own planning processes? You want to streamline your planning before you implement a new tool? We invite you to participate in our international study Benchmark 2017 – Corporate Planning, which we developed together… Read More