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Full-Text Articles in Finance and Financial Management
Single Minded? : Implementing Common Financial Systems, Mark E. Pickering
Single Minded? : Implementing Common Financial Systems, Mark E. Pickering
Mark E Pickering
As companies grow via acquisition they collect a variety of separate and often quite diverse financial systems belonging to the newly acquired companies. While there is a substantial cost to implementing a common financial system across the merged group. Is that cost outweighed by the benefits of a single system? This article uses a case study to highlight options for different degrees of finance system commonality, potential benefits of each option and a framework for analysing the appropriate level of commonality.
Customer Profitability: The Approach Counts, Mark E. Pickering
Customer Profitability: The Approach Counts, Mark E. Pickering
Mark E Pickering
This article looks at alternative approaches to calculating customer profitability. It recommends a customer-focussed approach that takes into account the specific resources utilised to service each customer segment. In using customer profitability to make strategic and operational decisions it is vital that only costs relevant to those decisions are utilised.
As Easy As Abc - An Introduction To Activity Based Costing, Mark E. Pickering
As Easy As Abc - An Introduction To Activity Based Costing, Mark E. Pickering
Mark E Pickering
This article is an introduction to the concepts and mechanics of Activity Based Costing and how it can be used to provide different views of the costs and profitability of organisations to support management decisions.