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Finance
- CFOs spend at least 40% of their time on business performance management, but they estimate that 30% of their company's performance potential is lost due to ineffective performance management processes and behaviors.
- Even as companies invest eight- and nine-figure sums to derive insight from financial and customer data, more than 60% of finance staff do not have sufficiently mature processes and skills to do so.
- The CFO role is undergoing its third major shift of the last ten years - away from the early 2000's compliance and reporting activities and the 2008/2009 focus on liquidity and business continuity to identifying and managing opportunities and risks of a global business environment.
- While finance teams have identified talent management as a key means of delivering the value business requires, 80% report that their staff lacks the requisite skills.
- 56% of CFOs are playing an "inquisitor" role in operating reviews, spending more time demanding answers on the financials than being directive about what to do next.
- Companies with a less than credible emerging markets story generated an average total shareholder return of only 2% between 2008 and 2010, compared with a 32% return for those with a credible emerging markets story.
