Previous Events - November 2009

 


90% of spreadsheets used in corporate planning
contained significant errors.

PricewaterhouseCoopers survey

Date: 24th November - Melbourne
Venue:

Professional Advantage
Level 10
500 Collins Street

Melbourne VIC

 
Date: 10th November - Perth
Venue:

The Park Business Centre
45 Ventnor Ave

West Perth WA

 
Date: 17th November - Brisbane
Venue:

Hilton Hotel
Room 81
190 Elizabeth Street

Brisbane QLD
Agenda: 8:45am – 9:00am – Registration & Light Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am – Presentation
Registration: Click here to register

 

Are you being asked to revise forecasts more frequently?
The pressure on the finance team to produce accurate budgets and comprehensive projections of future trading has never been greater.

 

Finance must “sharpen the edges” of planning, forecasting and analysis to enhance business agility and achieve performance predictability.

 

IT Managers are also tasked with pulling information together from disparate sources across the organisation. This can be a significant challenge and an impediment to reliable management reporting. They require a “single source of truth” in data, while leveraging existing IT investments.

 

Why is it so difficult?
Organisations relying on manual processes and spreadsheets can never meet today’s business demands within safe limits of risk, cost and timeliness.

 

We provide solutions that help you plan, manage, monitor and analyse corporate performance – without the overhead.

 

Why attend?

 

  • Struggling with spreadsheet proliferation?

  • Having trouble managing the budget &/or reporting cycles in a timely manner?

  • Dealing with serious issues of data fragmentation, inconsistency and consolidation?

  • Want to produce multiple forecast versions (inc. cash-flow impacts) or what if scenario planning?

  • Having difficulty aligning the budget &/or performance reporting to corporate strategy?

  • Experiencing performance and scalability problems with your current methods?

 

Infor PM is a leading Performance Management solution including:

 

  • Sophisticated planning and forecasting capabilities that support best practices like continuous budgeting, rolling forecasts and what-if scenario planning.

  • Highly configurable, custom reporting (Business Intelligence) for gathering data from multiple sources and distributing management information.

 

Infor PM enables timely decisions that improve business productivity and profitability - ‘business intelligence’ you can rely on!




 

Date: 11th November - Brisbane
Venue:

Hilton Hotel
Room 81
190 Elizabeth Street
Brisbane QLD 4000
Agenda:

8:45am – 9:00am – Registration & Light Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am – Presentation

Registration: Click here to register


Date: 9th December - Sydney
Venue:

The Establishment
Level 3, Room 2
252 George Street
Sydney
Agenda:

8:45am – 9:00am – Registration & Light Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am – Presentation

Registration: Click here to register

 

Do you use Microsoft SharePoint? Or are there plans?


What is the purpose of Microsoft SharePoint in your organisation? What pains is

it trying to solve? Is it a central place to collaborate, store documents, and find
information? Are you also seeking workflow and to manage key business processes?

 

Would you like to see Microsoft SharePoint like you’ve never
seen it before?

 

You are invited to our FREE SEMINAR to see how FlowCentric, coupled with
Microsoft SharePoint, will turn your investment from good to great.

 

Microsoft SharePoint is a popular and cost effective platform. However many organisations have workflow and process management needs that demand greater visibility and control. FlowCentric quickly builds upon Microsoft SharePoint to integrate to other systems, strengthen process integrity, tighten security and meet your audit expectations.

 

Guest Speaker

Our guest speaker is Pieter Van Schalkwyk. Pieter is the founder, CEO and the chief architect of the FlowCentric BPM product. He is a graduate Mechanical Engineer and holds a Masters degree in Information Technology.


Pieter’s passion for productivity improvement around business processes saw him develop the FlowCentric toolset to address the common problems with processes in organisations today.

 

Pieter is the author of the whitepaper ‘FlowCentric turns SharePoint from good to great’. FlowCentric is a business process management (BPM) and workflow toolset that enables organisations to achieve control of their internal and external processes.

 

It integrates to other business systems and drives process outcomes across the enterprise. FlowCentric’s rules based process management solution ensures consistent, repeatable, auditable and transparent processes through the organisation.



Cash is King Webinar Series

Receiving cash is paramount in any business and the quicker that you have cash the quicker you can invest in other projects or pay for operational activities. To effectively receive cash quicker the entire Accounts Receivable process needs to be automated, auditable, transparent and managed for each and every customer, each and every sale. Advanced Receivables from Professional Advantage incorporates the complete invoice to cash activity for your business to receive your cash sooner.

The cash is king series will incorporate invoicing, receipting, collections and workflow management to provide complete management of your Accounts Receivable function. These 30 minute sessions are designed for an insight into how these modules will manage your debt better.



Topic: Invoicing
 

This 30 minute session will cover the invoicing function. See how easy it is to produce quality invoices for customers with the information customers require for payment. See how the same module can manage recurring billing with a comprehensive calculation engine that will automate invoicing amounts and recognition of revenue over multiple and different time lines.
Date:

4th November 2009
Time:

11:30am – 12:00pm
Registration:

Click here to register

Topic: Receipting
 

There are many ways in which customers can pay for their invoices. This 30 minute session of the Cash is King series will cover the receipting process of Cheque, EFTPOS, Cash and BPAY options. The receipting module is a flexible solution that offers, receipting, deposit slip preparation and online allocations to assist in the accurate processing of receipts.
Date:

11th November 2009
Time:

11:30am – 12:00pm (ESDT)
Registration:

Click here to register

 

Topic: Workflow for SunSystems
 

Sometimes the order to cash process includes users that may be outside of the finance function. The Workflow for SunSystems module provides the foundation for incorporating all users into the process to provide control and compliance. If you have the need to provide control over creation or amendments to customer records, invoice requests or new analysis codes then this 30 minute session is a must.
Date:

25th November 2009
Time:

11:30am – 12:00pm (ESDT)
Registration:

Click here to register



 

 

 

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Some quotes from attendees to previous Budgeting & Forecasting Seminars.

 

“Seeing the efficiency of an automated system with an agile & rapid development was great.”

“The case study you presented summed it up - from trouble to growth – thank you very much.”

“Examples of HR & new employee start-up processes that were used was very well presented and very helpful to me.”

"The practical examples of the processes was most helpful to me.”

“Thank you for putting on a very helpful presentation!”

“I walked away with the idea of starting small.”

“Didn’t try to 'sell the product'. The audience participants were able to come to individual conclusions as to the products application in their business.
A good demo."