PwC University : PwC University Introduction to Sustainability
PART III, October 2010 www.pwc.com
Building better finance functions : Building better finance functions Finance Benchmarking
In particular, top performers are:
Making better use of high value specialists’ time by actively standardising and simplifying data models across markets and within business units
Transferring routine transactional activity to consolidated service centres and looking at whether more complex activities such as financial reporting or project accounting could also be put in a shared service environment
Combining financial and non-financial management information and developing simple and transparent metrics to align financial performance with the delivery of strategic objectives
Focusing on providing business insight and employing 30% more insight employees than the typical finance function 2 October 2010
Questions? : Questions? 3 October 2010
AIESEC: creating value for your business : AIESEC: creating value for your business To provide advice on creating value for your business you need to understand the market in which it operates, its strategic position, and therefore its likely future prospects.
Businesses confront many questions about their strategic investments:
How can you improve the value of your business?
Is your strategic investment pricing right?
What's the best strategic option?
Is this strategic investment a good deal? Can you defend it?
Are the regulators on board? 4 October 2010
Revenue Growth : Revenue Growth Revenue generation is always on the leadership team’s agenda. Irrespective of what survey or market analysis you look at, growing revenue is one of the top three - if not the number one - priorities of all organisations, especially ones like AIESEC.
So the hunt for customers is on - and not just any customers. We want customers to build sustainable, profitable relationships with. That means we need:
better understanding of the market;
better understanding of customer needs;
better, more targeted propositions and better understanding of their investment in marketing. 5 October 2010
Revenue Growth : Revenue Growth How do we get:
better understanding of the market?
better understanding of customer needs?
better, more targeted propositions and better understanding of their investment in marketing? 6 October 2010