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17 - 19 May 2010 | Grand Hyatt Melbourne

ConferenCe HIGHLIGHTSfinance and Business Professionals from more than 120 Australian and New Zealand organisations have collaborated to create this program

35 Presentations and Sessions in 6 tracks over 2 days covering: Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning; Reporting & Business Intelligence; Project System; Banking & Cash Management; Data Quality, Ownership & Reconciliation; New G/L; SAP User Frustration, Change & Training; Enhancement Packages & Upgrades; Purchasing; Spend Analytics; Sustainability Reporting; Segregation of Duties; Month-End Processes; Mergers & Acquisitions; Profitability Reporting; Profit Centre Reorganisation; Document & Records Management; and Shared Services

10 International Presentations providing insights into what SAP customers are achieving globally

Interactive Workshop on the role of technology in the real time management of business performance and how it enables finance teams to adapt volatility and uncertainty

Pre-Conference JumpStart Sessions:

• Sustainability: How Green Are You? – The New Bean Finance has to Count

• New Options for Governing Financial Master Data and Ensuring Accurate Consolidated Financial Statements

entire Program Vetted by the SAP financials Advisory Team representing large, medium and small organisations across all industry sectors

Unrivalled networking Activities: pre-conference drinks; networking cocktail party on Monday evening; direct access to presenters at Speakers’ Corner; connecting at lunches and teas in the exhibition area; and utilising complimentary meeting rooms

Take Home Tools and resources: electronic access to all keynotes, track presentations and sessions

Membership to Australia and new Zealand’s Most Powerful SAP financials Community: you will receive a contact list of all conference participants, helping to maintain the momentum created and keeping the community connected, motivated and informed all year round

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new G/LWhat value has it delivered to other customers?; understand the differences between the old and the New G/L; how have others implemented the New G/L and learn do’s and dont's; avoid parallel ledger setups and false segment definition; best practice for utilising splitting and zero balancing functionality; hearing about the issues around reconciling between FI and CO and how the New G/L really helps with this SAP User frustration, Change & TrainingHow successful organisations are managing the SAP Financials user experience; see SAP front-end options to assist with negative perceptions; how have others used SAP Portal or the interface with Microsoft?; successful ways to ensure quality of data entry; the importance of education, training and culture; using communication to drive change; how to successfully transition to support after implementations

enhancement Packages & UpgradesLearn the difference between applying an Enhancement Package and doing an upgrade; what exciting functionality do users get with the latest Enhancement Package?; explore functionality from Enhancement Pack 5 that provides a single point of entry for defining, triggering, monitoring and reporting on a reorganisation plan for a smooth transition between profit centres

PurchasingUtilising automation technologies to reduce transactional costs and streamline purchasing; B2B automation of the Procure to Pay process; online Portal Entry of Invoice Claims; scanning solution of low transaction invoices into SAP for automated invoice entry; key considerations when selecting the appropriate automation solution for peak operating performance; 3rd party tools - what is available and what does SAP offer?

Spend AnalyticsMonitoring and analysing spend; learn how to make this cumbersome process efficient through the implementation of SAP Spend Performance Management

Sustainability reportingUnderstand, comply and report on a range of sustainability topics; the impact of sustainability initiatives on: finance teams, bottom line, day-to-day business process and month end; what tools are available to help organisations manage this area?

Getting a Business Case over the LineHow to develop business cases for SAP Financials’ projects in a tough economic climate; learn how to position your case to get funding for back office SAP Financials initiatives; how to sell your vision and strategy

Segregation of Duties Understand the benefits of SAP GRC and whether it can assist in resolving the authorisation management challenge; Virsa/SAP Access Control functionality; management of super user access and sensitive transaction access; hear about the Authority Governance Model; deliver a real-time, holistic view of all provisioning, access and security events across both SAP and non-SAP systems; integrate SAP into your Identity, Access and Security ecosystems; deliver role based access to resource; simplify password management; streamline communications between compliance and security systems

Month-end ProcessesHear best practice in terms of number of days to close and report; how do you incentivise your people to fast close and what are the best options to automate manual processes?; tools and options that can add stability and control over the closing process; compare SAP’s enhanced financials closing cockpit with third party tools

How to deal with Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)What tools are available to help with M&A?; what are successful governance models for system integration projects driven by mergers?

Profitability reporting (Co-PA)Hear how CO-PA fits in the SAP reporting architecture; decide if you need costing-based PA, account-based PA or both; sensible business processes versus ‘net margin’ in CO-PA; explore the technical considerations: characteristics required, data volume; summarisation levels and data, archiving, or just move to a business warehouse solution; what is the profitability analysis relationship with BW?

Profit Centre reorganisation Understand the impact on cost centres and materials, purchase orders, sales orders and projects when doing changes to the profit centre structure in SAP; explore the benefits of using SAP to build your profit centre reorganisation plan, rather than doing it manually with spreadsheets and email distribution lists; learn how to split a profit centre, merge two profit centres, or lock a profit centre that is no longer required; discover how to make the necessary work lists available to your end users

Document & records ManagementHear how SAP makes it possible to integrate financially related documents into the business process; scanning, imaging and workflow of documents with SAP; SAP Easy Document Management system and its application for procedures; Records Management with SAP; contract management with SAP; document searching and viewing alternatives in SAP; secure document storage with SAP; workflow of documents in SAP

Shared ServicesLearn how to grow the value of a shared services function from a transaction processing centre to a business partner providing insight; drive standardisation, consistency and optimisation of back office; maximise the efficiency of overhead operating costs; operate transparently against defined SLA’s and budgets

Budgeting, forecasting & PlanningHear successful solutions to integrate budget and actual data; commonly used applications to manage the creative process of budget development; see how BPC functionality enhances key consolidation processes such as: data collection, validation, currency translation, intercompany eliminations and consolidation of investments; how close to Excel is BPC really?; architectural design considerations taken into account when using BPC; first hand experience of BPC implementation lessons learned; budgeting and reporting in a multi-currency environment; learn what BW Integrated Planning (IP) functionality is available within BW7.0; see a live demo of all that IP can deliver

reporting & Business IntelligenceUnderstand what the real value proposition for BW is and what other SAP tools are available; explore the ready-made financial reports that are already within your SAP system; get an up-to-date look at the options available to create profit and loss statements, balance sheets, accounts receivable and accounts payable reports and analysis, asset balances, acquisitions and retirements, asset history sheets, cash position and liquidity forecast reports; understand the differences between fixed asset, cost centre and order accounting reports; get visibility of what reporting is delivered with enhancement package 5; design a successful business case for BI investments; provide rich visualisation, flexible reporting and comprehensive analytical capability for executives; leverage functionality of BW Accelerator, BEX 7.0 and the Visual Composer

Project SystemWhich different project accounting perspectives have worked for organisations?; learn to develop an end-to-end schedule for a PS/IM financial year end and how to integrate it to other financial year-end functions; get a better handle on timing: from opening a new year to closing the old year and how to report across financial years; find a common ground between financial planning and project planning and review; explore cProjects integration with PS, SD and CATs

Banking & Cash ManagementMinimise cash leakage in inter-company transactions; clarify SAP’s offering and whether there is a banking and cash management solution for your business; remove physical cash flows from inter-company settlements; increase the centralised pooling of funds with treasury; understand the cost benefit using SAP’s solution and how to get the business case up

Data Quality, ownership & reconciliationStrategies to clarify data ownership and separate this from (SAP) system ownership; the impact of poor, untrustworthy data on your people; governing financials Master Data to drive accurate consolidated financials statements; ensure consistent data from multiple accounting systems; workflow approvals for Master Data change requests; new financials Master Data governance functionality available in Enhancement Pack 5; recognise best practice for the ownership of the data model

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MeeT THe KeYnoTe AnD InTernATIonAL PreSenTerS

Gary fullmer - Americas IfrS enablement Lead, MI6 Solutions Group (USA)Monday Track A: How to Achieve a faster Month end Close -- a Balanced View of the Two Most Popular Tools Available TodayTuesday Track A: Best practices to derive maximum value from the SAP General Ledger

Gary Fullmer is an independent consultant who recently worked for SAP Labs for 13+ years. While at SAP Labs, he spent his first 4 years as a Management Accounting (CO) instructor developing and delivering all CO courses offered in the SAP course catalog. For the next 6 years, he assumed the role of a FI/CO Solution Manager where he focused on interfacing with customers for CO, SEM and FI solutions. During his remaining 3 years at SAP, his primary focus was on New G/L and Migration techniques; IFRS which included development of the SAP IFRS adoption model and SAP’s Enhanced Financial Closing. After leaving SAP in April 2009, Gary continued to work for SAP and other organisations as an independent consultant and advisor in these areas. His educational background includes an MBA for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MS from Utah State University and a BS from Utah State University.

Andrew Manning - Chief financial officer, 7-eleven Stores Pty LtdMonday Keynote Presentation: Laying the foundation for Strategic Advantage – a Cfo’s View of the Critical Building Blocks that Lead to obtaining Value from Your SAP Investment

Andrew has been the Chief Financial Officer for 7-Eleven Stores since 1995. Andrew’s first exposure to major IT

projects came in the early 1980s during his time at home builder and construction company AV Jennings. Originally

recruited to a role in financial planning and investment analysis, he became involved in projects which led not only to

an overhaul of financial systems at Jennings but also to automation of previously manual systems in the areas of work-

flow, estimating and ordering.

In 1986, he joined the music and consumer electronics retailer, Brashs – leaving as Finance Director prior to taking

on his current post. Throughout this period Andrew remained active in systems development. Under his management,

Brashs was one of the pioneers of modern merchandise management systems with its successful implementation of the

JDA MMS package. He was project sponsor for 7-Eleven’s SAP implementation (IS-Retail plus financial systems) in

1999 and was instrumental in developing the project which saw 7-Eleven role out a new generation of store systems

in 2003-04. More recently he has had a lead role in the integration of process surrounding the re-engineering of

7-Eleven’s supply chain and the introduction of its e-services offering.

David A. J. Axson - founder & President, Sonax Group (USA)Monday Keynote Presentation: new realities for a new WorldWednesday Workshop: What Does a World-Class finance organisation Look Like in 2010?

David Axson is an acknowledged expert in the field of business performance management. His new book "The Management Mythbuster" was published January 2010. He is also the author of the best selling book, Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management and a noted speaker having delivered presentations in more than 35 countries over the last two years. Prior to his current role as an advisor, consultant and author, David spent 12 years with The Hackett Group of which he was a cofounder and Chief Operating Officer and helped lead the company from start-up to an IPO in six years. He also served as Head of Corporate Planning at Bank of America where he was charged with a fundamental redesign of the company’s planning and forecasting processes.

Janet Salmon - Solution Manager, Suite Solution Management, financial excellence, SAP AG (Germany)Sunday Jumpstart: new options for Governing financial Master Data and ensuring Accurate Consolidated financial StatementsMonday Track A: A Comprehensive Guide to SAP functionality for financial reportingTuesday Track A: A Comprehensive Guide to Smooth Profit Center reorganisation – new enhancement Pack 5 functionality

Janet Salmon joined SAP AG in 1992. After six months of training on R/2, she began work as a translator, becoming a technical writer for the product costing area in 1993. As English speakers with a grasp of German costing methodologies were rare in the early 1990s, she began to hold classes and became a product manager for the product costing area in 1996 and helped numerous international organisations set up product costing. More recently, she has worked on CO content for the Business Information Warehouse, Financial Analytics and role-based portals. She is currently a Solution Manager in SAP ERP Financials with responsibility for people productivity in this area. She lives in Speyer, Germany, with her husband and two children.

Mark Iliff - BI Manager, AGL energy LimitedTuesday Keynote: Business Intelligence, the Meaning of Life and other Unrelated Topics

Mark's current role involves managing a large scale implementation of SAP BI over newly introduced SAP IS-U, CRM and ECC6 source systems. Previously he was the Business Intelligence and Reporting Manager for Medibank Private. Prior to that Mark developed a broad range of experiences in varied roles in business intelligence such as performance analyst with a Telco, statistician and modeller with insurances and financial services, database design and construction consultant, performance management and business strategy consultant in general insurances. He has a proven track record in practical, high impact information management and a uniquely humanised view of what successful BI is and how to achieve it.

ross Wilson - Director, finance Processes & Systems, Autodesk (USA)Monday Track A: on-Time, on Budget, User Support, Communications and TrainingTuesday Track A: Manage Costs in recessionary Times with SAP Spend Analytics

Ross is the Director of Finance Processes and Systems and Global Process Owner for Finance and HR systems at Autodesk. He previously was Associate Partner at IBM and a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked on numerous large SAP implementations for multinational companies spanning the last 17 years. Ross is very experienced in large project management, FI, CO, MM, SD and HR modules and processes, Financial Reporting including BW, BPC and BCS implementations and business process redesign, spanning the high-tech, consumer products, financial and entertainment industries.

Adam Bacon - executive General Manager, UGL Shared Services Tuesday Keynote: SAP - empowering Shared Services at the United Group

Adam is the Executive General Manager of UGL Shared Services, which includes Business Services (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Expense Management and Fleet Management), Payroll, ICT, Procurement and Health Services. Prior to joining UGL he worked for SAP Australia as well as numerous SAP customers in a consulting capacity. Before moving into the SAP market he was a Process Control Engineer for Honeywell and BHP.


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How Green Are You? - The new Bean finance Has to Count

Facilitated by: Stephen Mundy - Australian FI/CO Lead, Systems, Integration & Technology - SAP, Accenture Australia Ltd

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Monday Conference Day oneTrACK A TrACK B TrACK C

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Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Keynote Presentation: Laying the foundation for Strategic Advantage - a Cfo’s View of the Critical Building Blocks that Lead to obtaining Value from Your SAP Investment

Andrew Manning - Chief Financial Officer, 7-Eleven Stores Pty Ltd

Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Lunch/Exhibition Viewing

Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Guest Keynote Presentation: John Silvester

Mastering SAP Financials Community Networking Drinks Sponsored by Eventful Management

Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome

opening Keynote Presentation: new realities for a new World

David A.J. Axson - Founder & President, Sonax Group (USA)

Data Quality, ownership and reconciliation - Is This really Such an Issue? Marc van Heerden - Service Line Lead, Finance - SAP Services, Australia Post

on-Time, on Budget, User Support, Communications and TrainingRoss Wilson - Director, Finance Processes & Systems, Autodesk, Inc. (USA)

A Comprehensive Guide to SAP functionality for financial reporting Janet Salmon - Solution Manager, Suite Solution Management, Financial Excellence, SAP AG (Germany)

Project Managers vs. The Accountants - The Project Cost and revenue Management WarsNick Earle - Team Leader OMS Support, NSW Public Works, NSW Department of Services, Technology and Administration

How to Achieve a faster Month end Close - a Balanced View of the Two Most Popular Tools Available TodayGary Fullmer - Americas IFRS Enablement Lead, MI6 Solutions Group (USA)

An SAP BPC Implementation experience - Be Prepared for Highs and LowsMarion Andeweg - Group Financial Controller & Paul Nobilo - Finance Manager, Gallagher Group Ltd (New Zealand)

Profitability Analysis (Co-PA) - To reconcile or not to reconcile? The Limitations and the Powerful reporting Capability Andrea Gannon - Director, GSAP Consulting Pty Ltd

Selling a Business Case, Managing expectation and Creating Happy end Users?Antonella Bates - Director - SAP Services, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

The Budgeting equation: efficiency + flexibility = Better Performance Management Discussion Group

fonterra In-House Cash - Minimising Cash Leakage in Inter-Company TransactionsCraig Jessep - Finance Process Improvement Manager, Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (New Zealand)

Implementing enhancement Pack functionality for financials - The new DawnStephen Mundy - Australian FI/CO Lead, Systems, Integration & Technology - SAP, Accenture Australia Ltd

Governance, risk and Compliance: Improving Business efficiencyPaul Kangro - Technology Strategist, Novell Australia

Improve the efficiency, Automation and Transparency of Your Consolidation Processes with SAP Businessobjects BPC for netWeaverStephen Morling - National Solution Leader - Finance, Oxygen Business Solutions

The Art of Mergers and AcquisitionsStefan Goehring - Associate Partner SAP New Solutions, IBM Australia Limited

How to Get More Dollars to Improve Your SAP financials SolutionEckart Altenkamp - Director of Operations and Solution Delivery, PLAUT Australia Pty Ltd

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Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Closing Keynote Presentation: The future is now: Business Intelligence, the Meaning of Life and other Unrelated TopicsMark Iliff - BI Manager, AGL Energy Limited

Mastering SAP Financials Conference Close

Keynote Presentation: empowering Shared Services at United Group

Adam Bacon - Executive General Manager - Shared Services, United Group Limited

Manage Costs in recessionary Times with SAP Spend AnalyticsRoss Wilson - Director, Finance Processes & Systems, Autodesk, Inc. (USA)

A Comprehensive Guide to Smooth Profit Center reorganisation - new enhancement Pack 5 functionality

Janet Salmon - Solution Manager, Suite Solution Management, Financial Excellence, SAP AG (Germany)

Best Practices to Derive Maximum Value from the SAP General Ledger Gary Fullmer - Americas IFRS Enablement Lead, MI6 Solutions Group (USA)

Driving the Business to Work Together with SAP Business Intelligence - focusing on Performance Management at Super Cheap AutoMark Cichowski - Process Development Manager, Super Cheap Auto Group Pty Ltd

Implementing Virsa for Segregation of Duties - Solving the Compliance HeadacheHenry Vila - Manager, Information Security, Strategy and Architecture, Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Pty Ltd

Utilising Automation Technologies to reduce Transactional Costs and Streamline Purchasing Sean Tolich - Acting 1SAP Manager, BlueScope Steel Limited

navigating the Hazards of a PS/IM financial Year endDelia Conneely - Manager Operations Systems Improvement, Jemena Pty Ltd

SAP BW - Integrated Planning: Look at What’s Sitting right Under Your nose! Gary Hooker - SAP Technical Manager, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

SharePoint for finance CollaborationRichard Frykberg - Finance Director, IQX Business Solutions

Accounts Payable Automation - An Investment in the futureFrank Volckmar - Managing Director, ReadSoft Oceania

Show Me the Money: finance focused Business Intelligence Jennifer Wright & Rowena Westphalen - Solution Architects, SAP Australia Pty Ltd

ZAP Your Docs!Abie Spies - Managing Director, Engineering Informatics Pty Ltd

Wednesday Workshop

What Does a World-Class finance organisation Look Like in 2010?

Led by David A.J. Axson - Founder & President, Sonax Group (USA)8.00

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new options for Governing financial Master Data and ensuring Accurate Consolidated financial Statements

Janet Salmon - Solution Manager, Suite Solution Management, Financial Excellence, SAP AG (Germany)

SUnDAY 16TH MAY

Pre-Conference JumpStart Session 1:

How Green Are You? - The new Bean finance Has to Count

It is becoming increasingly important for businesses and finance functions to be able to understand, comply and report on a wide range of sustainability topics.

Come join a panel of professionals who have spent some time thinking about the ‘sustainability question’ and what it all means to finance teams and the commercial reality of your business:

• How do you know what to do?: Are there both internal drivers and external compliance requirements (e.g. ETS)?

• How does this affect the day-to-day business processes and month end?• How are the non-financial measures recorded and presented in reporting?• What is the impact on the bottom line?: What are the financial risks and

opportunities associated with the economic, social and environmental agendas?• What tools are available to help organisations be effective in this area?

Members of the audience will be invited to participate in the discussion, so bring your ideas, your questions and your insights along and join us!

facilitated by: Stephen Mundy - Australian fI/Co Lead, Systems, Integration & Technology - SAP, Accenture Australia Ltd

Pre-Conference JumpStart Session 2:

new options for Governing financial Master Data and ensuring Accurate Consolidated financial Statements

Learn how to ensure that financial master data from multiple accounting systems is consistent in order to efficiently produce consolidated financial statements. Explore new financial master data governance functionality now available for SAP ERP 6.0 customers through SAP enhancement package 5. Learn how to maintain financial master data for group charts of accounts, profit centers and cost centers.

Understand what kind of financial data can be modeled and maintained in a central master data system and how the SAP pre-delivered data model can be enhanced to meet your needs. Find out how to configure workflow approvals for master data change requests. Understand how to distribute financial master data from a central master data system to other applications, such as SAP ERP, to other financial accounting systems; or to the financial consolidation software in your SAP landscape.

Janet Salmon - Solution Manager, Suite Solution Management, financial excellence, SAP AG (Germany)

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Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome

opening Keynote Presentation: new realities for a new World

The last two years have been tumultuous. The global economic crisis has shaken the confidence of many managers and they are increasingly looking to their finance team and SAP systems to help effectively manage in a turbulent and uncertain world. In this thought-provoking keynote address, David Axson, author of the recently published book The Management Mythbuster (Wiley 2010) will explore some of the demands now being placed upon finance teams and the new best practices that are emerging such as:

•Dynamic, technology-enabled real time performance management

•Rapid re-forecasting based upon the real time flow of business activity

•Integration of enterprise risk management into the financial management process

•Integrating scenario and contingency planning into the management process

•Leverage off technology to deliver more timely and relevant business information that directly leads to faster, more confident decision-making

David A.J. Axson - founder & President, Sonax Group (USA)

MonDAY 17TH MAY

Keynote Presentation: Laying the foundation for Strategic Advantage - a Cfo’s View of the Critical Building Blocks that Lead to obtaining Value from Your SAP Investment

In order to derive strategic advantage from your SAP financials system, you have to pay attention in equal measure to the overall objectives and the fundamental building blocks. To chart the direction you must have a clear vision of the role of finance in your organisation. To get there you must build a foundation which will support that vision.

Andrew will discuss how 7-Eleven structured their use of SAP’s financials solution based on a view of the finance function as an integrator of process across the organisation and how this became effective only after they learnt:

•How ownership of master data is key to building underlying accuracy

•How the entity model is critical to strategic reporting

•How none of this works without the right relationship between Finance and IT

Andrew Manning - Chief financial officer, 7-eleven Stores Pty Ltd

SAP release: ECC6 & BI 7.0

Original go-live date: April 1999

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11.00 Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

12.35 on-Time, on Budget, User Support, Communications and Training

Is your current project facing challenges with change management and user acceptance? Do you worry about how to drive user system adoption at a reasonable cost? Do you have concerns about losing knowledge over time as new employees join the company after a major system has gone live? Find out how Autodesk solved these problems with an extensive user training program and ongoing new hire education, as part of a recent SAP system upgrade. Hear how they continue to address ongoing concerns with SAP’s usability and ease of use as part of their change management program.

• The key ingredients of a worldwide communications and training program

• How to improve the quality and usage of what you have installed as part of an SAP upgrade, using SAP’s latest tools

• Key methods to develop prepared and satisfied users, knowledgeable about the new system

• The importance of managing ongoing learning and user education

ross Wilson - Director, finance Processes & Systems, Autodesk, Inc. (USA)


Original go-live date: June 1994

Profitability Analysis (Co-PA) - To reconcile or not to reconcile? The Limitations and the Powerful reporting Capability

This presentation will help you decide if you need costing-based PA, account-based PA or both, the practical limitations of CO-PA (both technical and in line with sensible business processes). It will also outline strategies on how CO-PA should be considered along with archiving and BI/reporting projects.

• Can we expect to reconcile CO-PA (Profitability Analysis) with FI (Financial Accounting) and with SIS (Sales Information System)?

•Financial tool or sales and marketing tool?

•Sensible business processes vs. ‘net net margin’ in CO-PA

• Technical considerations: characteristics required and data volume

• Summarisation levels and data, archiving, or just move to a business warehouse solution?

• Profitability Analysis relationship with BW/BI (Business Warehouse/Business Intelligence)

Find out if SAP Customers are using CO-PA to its full potential and if there are ways your organisation could improve its CO-PA performance. Hear from an independent consultant who was one of the first to speak on Profitability Analysis at CIM shows in the UK, and who has implemented CO-PA in consumer goods industries in the UK and Australia.

Andrea Gannon - Director, GSAP Consulting Pty Ltd

Governance, risk and Compliance: Improving Business efficiency

Today’s IT infrastructure is complex, consisting of multiple, disparate systems and applications. For each of these systems, a unique set of policies, user credentials and entitlements must be maintained, which leads to a set of dissimilar provisioning and access control systems. As a result, risk information is isolated and compliance efforts are duplicated across the enterprise.

Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments puts SAP solutions at the core of enterprise-wide provisioning, identity integration, access and security information and event management.

This delivers a real-time, holistic view of all provisioning, access and security events across both SAP and non-SAP systems. Security events within the infrastructure are correlated to business process and policies and provide real-time enforcement of policy throughout the enterprise.

• Integrating SAP into your Identity, Access and Security ecosystems

•Addressing potential threats as they occur

•Delivering role based access to resource

•Simplifying password management

• Streamlining communications between compliance and security systems

Paul Kangro - Technology Strategist, novell Australia

14.25 A Comprehensive Guide to SAP functionality for financial reporting

Learn which ready-made financial reports are delivered with your SAP system and what tools are now available to generate, customise, develop, run and distribute reports. Get an up-to-date look at the options available to create profit and loss statements, balance sheets, accounts receivable and accounts payable reports and analyses, asset balances, acquisitions and retirements, asset history sheets and cash position and liquidity forecast reports.

Examine the capabilities and requirements of different financial reporting tools. Understand the differences between fixed asset, cost center and order accounting reports. This is an opportunity to evaluate and see demos of the new enhancements from SAP, including simplified reporting for financials delivered withenhancement packages 3, 4 and 5 for SAP ERP 6.0. .


Selling a Business Case, Managing expectation and Creating Happy end Users?

Three years ago the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government undertook an exercise that would pave the way for a significant program of change to its SAP systems.

Hear how the Department developed and obtained buy-in for its SAP strategic roadmap and how this roadmap was used to drive and deliver significant change throughout the organisation - increasing compliance, control and efficiency as well acceptance of the SAP system.

This presentation will use the Departments 5 Phase Strategic Roadmap and specifically our automated Procure to Pay Projects to illustrate:

• What you must do before you start - selling your strategy and vision!

•Building a business case and getting it over the line

•Delivering the benefits to your organisation

• Our lessons learned... including the importance of the end user

Antonella Bates - Director - SAP Services, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, regional Development and Local Government


Original go-live date: July 1998

Improve the efficiency, Automation and Transparency of Your Consolidation Processes with SAP Businessobjects BPC for netWeaver

Understand why we selected SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) NetWeaver to replace our existing Consolidation solution over and above SAP’s other supported consolidation products. Learn how SAP BPC NetWeaver fits within our overall system architecture including SAP ERP, BW and BusinessObjects. Step through key considerations for optimising the BPC dimensional model to ensure that it effectively supports our management and legal consolidation business requirements.

See how BPC functionality enhances key consolidation processes such as data collection, posting corporate-level adjustments, validation, currency translation, execution of inter-company eliminations and consolidation of investments, reclassification and allocations. Discover the functionality and user friendliness of SAP BPC reporting using EVDRE and templates. And finally, appreciate the greater visibility, auditability and improved financial close timeframes that we have gained through our implementation of SAP BPC NetWeaver.

Stephen Morling - national Solution Leader - finance, oxygen Business Solutions

11.40Data Quality, ownership and reconciliation - Is This really Such an Issue?Many organisations do not pay sufficient attention to the quality of their master data and often do not have business ownership of it. This leads to problems reconciling reported financial data across the various reporting systems. This presentation will explore how Australia Post has applied themselves to this common challenge being faced by many organisations.

• How to achieve effective data quality across the system landscape via the use of SAP tools

• Data ownership and the boundaries between what the IT team and the business controls

• Business process and procedures in maintaining an effective reporting environment to reduce reconciliation problems

•Some of the common pitfalls that should be avoided

Marc van Heerden - Service Line Lead, finance - SAP Services, Australia Post


Original go-live date: August 1996

An SAP BPC Implementation experience - Be Prepared for Highs and LowsBPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) is a performance management tool that brings a lot of flexibility to the planning process as well as catering for consolidation and reporting requirements. The Gallagher Group is a large manufacturer that has a global distribution network with various foreign subsidiaries. Effective coordination was required to deal with budgeting and reporting in a multi-currency environment. Being the first NZ entity to embark on a BPC implementation has taught us many lessons and pitfalls to avoid.

•Overview of BPC functionality and terminology

•BPC for Excel, how close to Excel is it?

•Architectural design considerations

•Implementation challenges and what to watch out for

•Benefits gained and potential future applications

Come and hear our experience as the first New Zealand based organisation to implement this tool.

Marion Andeweg - Group financial Controller & Paul nobilo - finance Manager, Gallagher Group Ltd (new Zealand)

SAP release: ECC5


Implementing enhancement Pack functionality for financials - The new DawnThe world of SAP upgrades has changed forever due to the Enhancement Pack - with the release of Business Suite 7. This change of approach has left many businesses with questions on how best to implement and utilise Enhancement Packs within their Finance functions.

• What is the difference between an old fashioned upgrade and applying Enhancement Pack?

• What exciting functionality do finance users get with the latest Enhancement Package?

• Does SAP provide recommendations on the question if new functionality in Enhancement Packs should be activated as a default?

• Functional Upgrades: How do you engage the business to drive functionality gains?

• What is the experience of other businesses that have embarked on using Enhancement Packs?

Drawing on implementation experience and knowledge this session aims to bring clarity to many of the questions raised above.

Stephen Mundy - Australian fI/Co Lead, Systems, Integration & Technology - SAP, Accenture Australia Ltd

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13.25 Lunch/Exhibition Viewing

MonDAY 17TH MAY TUeSDAY 18TH MAY15.20 Project Managers vs. The Accountants - The Project

Cost and revenue Management Wars

Whilst often the focus and understandings of an organisation’s business units are poles apart, their ERP’s adopt a standard structure and design for all. Matching the needs and tools for project delivery against those for financial management is an ongoing challenge.

Within the NSW government sector “NSW Public Works” delivers a comprehensive range of commercial services for government in property and public infrastructure development. In the delivery of project management services timely and accurate project cost and revenue management is fundamental to our business success but is often seen as conflict within the requirements of project delivery.

• Project management vs. financial management - is there a difference?

• Public sector culture vs. commercial business delivery - how do you achieve best fit?

• Project planning and review vs financial planning and review - where is the common ground?

• The NSW Public Works solution - a web based solution using SAP Portal and cProjects including:

•cProjects structures and tools• Integration with backend SAP - Project Systems, Sales and

Distribution, CATS•Cost and revenue separations•Budgets vs. Forecasts vs. Actual•Quantum vs. Dollars•Training, acceptance and understanding•Lessons Learned

nick earle - Team Leader oMS Support, nSW Public Works, nSW Department of Services, Technology and Administration

SAP release: ECC6


The Budgeting equation: efficiency + flexibility = Better Performance Management

The Financial Budgeting and Planning process requires a creative and collaborative approach across the business. However, all too often the process is rigid, cumbersome, inefficient and very time-consuming. To make matters more challenging, the process usually involves a set of independent tools which are either loosely connected or interfaced. The end result can be a frustrating exercise that lacks clarity, transparency and accuracy. Worst of all, the process and tools frequently lack the flexibility to adapt to the changing world around us. How do we overcome this?

During this session finance people from a number of SAP customer organisations, facilitated by an expert, will discuss how their businesses deal with Budgeting and Planning. Hear their thoughts on processes and tools, as well as lessons learned. The discussion will also cover examples of the most commonly used applications for managing the Budgeting and Planning process. Join our discussion group and participate as a member of the audience, or just listen, as we address some of the following issues:

• How can you identify and eliminate the obstacles to an efficient process?

• What are the lessons learned from experience in implementing new tools and processes?

•Which tools seem to work best? •Any trends?• What are the essential requirements for achieving a

flexible environment?

Discussion Group

The Art of Mergers and Acquisitions

In the current economic environment, clients are using acquisitions and divestitures to focus on value and quickly exploit new market opportunities. In addition, with valuations at historic lows, clients with strong balance sheets are looking to move quickly to exploit market opportunities through acquisitions. Many of those activities will involve SAP systems.

•Are you ready for M&A?

•Things to consider

•1+1=3?

•What tools are available to help you?

•Lessons learned

Stefan Goehring - Associate Partner SAP new Solutions, IBM Australia Limited

16.40 How to Achieve a faster Month end Close - a Balanced View of the Two Most Popular Tools Available Today

The typical monthly financial close cycle are being extended due to increased reporting requirements and enhanced legal/compliance requirements. This in turn can cause problems with later than desired reporting and can lead to additional errors and possible restatements. All companies should focus on how to shorten the typical monthly close cycle and in turn ensure the results and in compliance with the local and corporate legal reporting requirements.

There are several tools in the marketplace that can add stability and control over the closing process. This presentation will provide highlights for two options the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit and the Runbook solution.

•Why is the monthly close taking so long?

• Review the close process and understand where many of the problems are

• Compare SAP’s enhanced Financial Closing Cockpit with a third party solution

Gary fullmer - Americas IfrS enablement Lead, MI6 Solutions Group (USA)

fonterra In-House Cash - Minimising Cash Leakage in Inter-Company Transactions

Fonterra are the world’s largest dairy exporter selling New Zealand made dairy products to consumers in 140 markets across the globe. A complex series of intercompany transactions is required to facilitate these multi country and currency sales. The Fonterra In-House Cash project had two key objectives: to remove real physical cash flows from intercompany settlement and to increase the centralised pooling of funds with treasury. This is the story of the delivery of this project from concept through to go-live.

• Justifying the change - cost/benefit - business case approach

• Key enablers and constraints - what was helpful and what was not?

•SAP In-house Cash vs. Fonterra approach

• Implementation - lessons learned, additional benefits and things that we would do differently

•Future opportunities

Craig Jessep - finance Process Improvement Manager, fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (new Zealand)

SAP release: ECC6


How to Get More Dollars to Improve Your SAP financials Solution

Would you like to invest more in your financial processes and systems and reporting tools? Would you like to win a larger proportion of funds available for your internal projects?

Continuous improvement programs are extremely important. In a world of constant change you cannot afford to let your ERP rust away. ERP projects are essentially people projects. If you understand the stages of ERP-enabled transformation then you will agree that the journey remains ongoing. This interactive presentation explores the good old ERP value proposition - for mature (SAP) organisations in 2010:

• What are best practices for accelerating, maximising and sustaining the benefits of the ERP journey?

• How can you keep your financial skills, processes and systems current and aligned with your business strategy?

• How can you continuously identify practices that contribute to maximising the value?

•And above all: How can you convince your board?

eckart Altenkamp - Director of operations and Solution Delivery, PLAUT Australia Pty Ltd

10.00 Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

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8.15 Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition

Keynote Presentation: empowering Shared Services at United Group

United Group Limited (UGL) is a provider of essential services. In 2009 UGL merged several shared functions to create a single Shared Service organisation delivering Business Services (AP, AR, Expense Management and Fleet Management), Payroll, ICT, Procurement and Health Services. By taking a process and lifecycle view of operations within it's engineering businesses, UGL is now leveraging it's implementation of SAP to support the delivery of the following Shared Service objectives:

• Drive standardisation, consistency and optimisation of back office and repeatable functions within UGL

• Maximise the efficiency of the Shared Services overhead operating costs within UGL and reduce costs where possible

• Operate transparently against defined SLA’s and budgets

• Work with the UGL businesses to identify opportunities to create value in shared functions

• Improve the actual value of the services delivered by UGL Shared Services

Adam Bacon - executive General Manager - Shared Services, United Group Limited

SAP release: ECC6 & BW 7.0


10.40

Manage Costs in recessionary Times with SAP Spend Analytics

Is your current infrastructure for monitoring and analysing spend manual and cumbersome, sometimes resulting in untrustworthy analysis and unrealised savings? Are there multiple unexploited or partially exploited opportunities for increased management of spend, including Marketing and IT costs? Find out how Autodesk solved this problem and is on track to get $3.5m of annualised savings with SAP’s help - by implementing SAP Spend Performance Management.

• The business case for SAP Spend Performance Management implementation

• Getting the most out of the organisation data (Spend and Supplier)

•Implementation using SaaS solution with third party

•Lessons learned, or “I wish somebody had told us before …”

ross Wilson - Director, finance Processes & Systems, Autodesk, Inc. (USA)



Implementing Virsa for Segregation of Duties - Solving the Compliance Headache

SOX compliance is one of the biggest challenges of today’s business environment. Maintaining access control and segregation of duties can be complicated and resource consuming. In this presentation you will hear how the world’s biggest car maker used the SAP GRC tools to ensure sustainable and long term compliance.

•The business drivers behind implementing Virsa

•Establishing the governance model

•Using Virsa to automatically enforce segregation of duties

•Monitoring and controlling super user access

Come and listen to our story of challenge and success. See the real journey to solve the compliance headache.

Henry Vila - Manager, Information Security, Strategy and Architecture, Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Pty Ltd

SAP release: ECC5 & Virsa 5.2


TrACK A TrACK B TrACK CAccounts Payable Automation - An Investment in the future

In an economy that still creates uncertainty, organisations are turning over every stone to maximise investments and streamline operations. Accounts Payable (AP) is often a department that is criticised for its inefficiencies suffering under the burden of paper and manual processing, resulting in high error rates, increased costs and delayed cycle times. Whilst leading companies recognise the value of transforming their AP processes through automation, understanding the key considerations when selecting the appropriate automation solution is vital to ensuring peak operating performance and the establishment of a platform for continuous improvement to maximise ROI.

Gain valuable information with regard to the solution selection process - the questions to ask of solution providers, the traps and pitfalls of not knowing your current processes and processing costs, how to accurately assess these and use it in your decision making process, getting “buy-in” from stakeholders and last but not least, the importance of choosing a “good-fit” solution that provides long-term benefits that align with company goals.

• Developing the vision for AP best practice to align with company goals

• Understand the business benefits of automation to the entire organisation

•Ensuring strong commitment from stakeholders at the onset

• The importance of evaluating your current processes and the costs involved

•Key considerations for selecting the right solution

• Understanding the importance of integration with your SAP system

frank Volckmar - Managing Director, readSoft oceania

17.35 Guest Keynote Presentation: John Silvester

John Silvester has been a crime reporter based in Melbourne from the late 1970s. He has written, edited and published crime books that have sold more than 1 million copies in Australia. John’s work was adapted into the top rating Underbelly television series shown on Channel Nine.

John has won five Melbourne Press Club Quill awards (commended seven times), six Victorian Law Foundation Awards, a Walkley Award, a Ned Kelly Award for true crime writing and a Ned Kelly lifetime achievement award.

He is the senior crime reporter for The Age and appears on 3AW as crime commentator Sly of the Underworld.

18.30 Mastering SAP Financials Community Networking Drinks Sponsored by

16.10 Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing


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12.25

A Comprehensive Guide to Smooth Profit Center reorganisation - new enhancement Pack 5 functionality

Changes to the profit center structure in SAP can impact thousands of cost centers and materials and millions of purchase orders, sales orders and projects. If the structure is not changed correctly, years of tedious corrections can result.

• Explore the latest SAP ERP functionality available from Enhancement Pack 5 that provides a single point of entry for defining, triggering, monitoring and reporting on a reorganisation plan that allows for a smooth transition between profit centers

• Learn how to ensure that all the materials, cost centers, orders and projects currently assigned to the old profit center are identified and re-assigned

• Explore the benefits of using SAP to build your profit centre reorganisation plan, rather than doing it manually with spreadsheets and email distribution lists

• Learn how to split a profit center, merge two profit centers, or lock a profit center that is no longer required

Within this context, discover hints about:

•How to implement an enhancement package

•How to activate a business function

• How to make the necessary worklists available to your end users


Utilising Automation Technologies to reduce Transactional Costs and Streamline Purchasing

With upwards of 500,000 Purchase Orders created each year BlueScope Steel needs to fully utilise SAP Procure to Pay capabilities to both control the process and reduce transactional costs. Depending on the capability of the supplier, BlueScope can deploy the following options:

•Full B2B automation of the Procure to Pay Process

•Online Portal Entry of Invoice Claims

• Scanning solution of low transaction invoices into SAP for automated invoice entry

This presentation will cover the benefits of using each of these processes and give an overview of the implementation challenges.

Sean Tolich - Acting 1SAP Manager, BlueScope Steel Limited

SAP release: ECC6


14.25 Driving the Business to Work Together with SAP Business Intelligence - focusing on Performance Management at Super Cheap Auto

In 2006, Super Cheap Auto Group implemented SAP BI 3.5 and EP 6.0 to address the future reporting/performance management requirements. This session will give an overview of challenges we faced as an organisation, particularly in the areas of:

• User acceptance

• Single source of the truth

• System integrity with large volumes of data

• Critical role of master data

Having recently upgraded to version 7, we are looking to leverage the functionality to support a process driven dashboard/reporting model using:

• BW Accelerator

• Bex 7.0 functionality

• Visual Composer (interactive demo integrating data from multiple sources)

Mark Cichowski - Process Development Manager, Super Cheap Auto Group Pty Ltd


Original go-live date: October 2002

SAP BW - Integrated Planning: Look at What’s Sitting right Under Your nose!

In March 2008, the Federal Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) implemented a centralised, web-based budgeting solution using the BI-Integrated Planning functionality available within BI 7. The Budget Allocation Tool (BAT) is a very powerful tool which is used to plan, forecast and report on the Departments $80 billion annual expenditure budget.

The focus of this session will be a live demonstration of the system including:

• A peek at the Budget Administrators cockpit - how to flexibly manage and model business assumptions, salary scales, version management, copying plans etc.

• Budget data entry including FTE budgeting, OPEX and CAPEX budgeting, budget functions and budget layouts

• Budget vs. actual reporting, forecasting and variance analysis with drill-down available at individual employee level

• OPEX and CAPEX budgeting and reporting at Work Breakdown Structure level (Project Systems)

• Extra tip - how the Federal Government Gershon IT reporting requirements are being met using Work Breakdown Structures and SAP BI

Gary Hooker - SAP Technical Manager, Department of families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

SAP release: ERP 6.0 & BI 7.0


13.30 Best Practices to Derive Maximum Value from the SAP General Ledger

Explore best practices for implementing and deriving maximum value from SAP General Ledger in SAP ERP. Examine the differences between the general ledger you now rely on and the SAP General Ledger within SAP ERP and learn where the new functionality can streamline your organisation’s financial processes.

Hear how other SAP customers have implemented SAP General Ledger and get dos, don’ts and lessons learned from their experiences. Find out how to ensure data and process integrity by avoiding too many parallel ledger setups and incomplete or false segment definition. Acquire best practices for utilising splitting and zero balancing functionalities. This is also an opportunity to evaluate the new general ledger functionality delivered with the latest SAP enhancement package.

Gary fullmer - Americas IfrS enablement Lead, MI6 Solutions Group (USA)

navigating the Hazards of a PS/IM financial Year end

A PS/IM financial year end can be a complex process, exacerbated by its infrequent occurrence, interdependencies between steps and inputs from different areas across the business. From start to finish, the process can span several months; the key is in the planning.

•Developing an end-to-end schedule

• Functions that need to be considered: IM carry-forward, PS carry-forward

•Timing: from opening a new year to closing the old year

•Getting the order of steps right

•Integrating with other financial year-end functions

Delia Conneely - Manager operations Systems Improvement, Jemena Pty Ltd

SAP release: 4.6c


Show Me the Money: finance focused Business Intelligence

Is Finance one of the most underserved Business Intelligence communities in your enterprise? SAP Finance users are already empowered with comprehensive content delivered in the latest enhancement packages of ERP 6.0, but this is just one part of the overall picture. Come and hear how to expand on this content by providing rich visualisation, flexible reporting and comprehensive analytical capability for the Finance Executive.

• Core SAP financial reporting vs. finance focused Business Intelligence

• The SAP Business User tools with a specific focus on the finance community

•Experience a reporting day in the life of a finance user

•Tips on how to get started

Learn how to be the coolest member of the Finance team with tips on how to select the right tool for each requirement and see practical examples of options available now and in the future.

Jennifer Wright & rowena Westphalen - Solution Architects, SAP Australia Pty Ltd

ZAP Your Docs!

We all use many documents in financial business processes in parallel with SAP transactions every day. Come and hear how SAP makes it possible to integrate financially related documents into the business process and makes access and processing of documented information easy and intuitive from within your normal SAP financial transactions.

The content management functionality in SAP will be explained, including:

• Scanning, imaging and workflow of documents with SAP - the SAP Easy Document Management system and its application for procedures etc.

•Records Management with SAP

•Contract Management with SAP

•Document searching and viewing alternatives in SAP

•Secure document storage with SAP

•Workflow of documents in SAP

• Third party Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products - their functions and relevance with SAP

Abie Spies - Managing Director, engineering Informatics Pty Ltd

15.15 Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

16.45 Mastering SAP financials Conference Close

15.45 Closing Keynote Presentation:Business Intelligence, the Meaning of Life and other Unrelated Topics

AGL is Australia’s largest and most successful integrated energy company, supplying gas and electricity to over 3 million Australian households and businesses. Between 2005 and 2009 AGL replaced its myriad of billing and CRM systems with a single platform - SAP IS-U and CRM. At the same time, SAP BI 7 was installed, with high expectations for its contribution to the decision making capabilities of the business. This presentation will cover the progress of AGL to date in leveraging its SAP BI investment and the specific challenges that have been met and overcome along the journey - with a twist.

Content areas include, but are most certainly not limited to:

• Valuing the investment in reporting and analysis: BI business case approval by your Board and Senior Managers (alternative title: how to get your grandpa to give you five bucks)

• Defining what is really necessary to report on: Business Requirement Specification in the real world (alternative title: rolling the dice with your ongoing employment)

• Autonomous and independent performance management: driving real business change through information (alternative title: what you and J.Edgar Hoover have in common)

• The best reporting system in the world: decision making is the purpose of all data, warehousing, reporting and analysis (alternative title: why the weatherman is better at my job than I am); and most importantly

• The meaning of life: what Conan the Barbarian can teach us about why we are her (alternative title: the power of the flesh - no not that sort... – vs. the power of steel)

Mark Iliff - BI Manager, AGL energy Limited

SAP release: 4.6c & BI 7.0

Original go-live date: December 2007


SharePoint for finance Collaboration

Finance is core to so many collaborative business processes from planning, to new product introduction, to customer credit management and collection. These business processes are typically poorly supported by the workflow implementation in your SAP system and are often manually intensive and heavily reliant on ad-hoc email communications. Learn how Microsoft Office and SharePoint Portal can be leveraged to support your world.

•Think in terms of processes, not transactions

•Change is inevitable - design a system that is agile

•Learn about the features available in Microsoft SharePoint

• SAP support for SharePoint as the foundation of DUET Enterprise

• Use Interactive SharePoint forms for finance processes and rapid workflow enablement

• Create role-specific workspaces incorporating analytics, collaboration and productivity views

richard frykberg - finance Director, IQX Business Solutions


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What Does a World-Class finance organisation Look Like in 2010?

The workshop is optional and separately bookable (places are limited and preference will be given to conference attendees) and will run from 8.00am to 3.00pm. registration opens at 7:30am and morning tea and lunch are included.

The last two years have been tumultuous. The global economic crisis has shaken the confidence of many managers and they are increasingly looking to their finance team and SAP systems to help manage effectively in a turbulent and uncertain world. In this workshop, David Axson, a co-founder of The Hackett Group and author of the best-selling books, "Best Practices in Planning & Performance Management" and "The Management Mythbuster" will share the best practice characteristics of an SAP-enabled finance organisation.

•Best practice benchmarks for finance

•Optimising finance’s role in risk management and decision support

•How the best finance teams leverage technology to not only improve productivity but also deliver insightful analytics

•The impact of the global economic crisis on finance’s role now and in the future

•Selling the need for change to business and finance management

•How to get started on a finance transformation program

Using numerous practical examples from organisations such as American Express, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Google, IBM, Proctor & Gamble, Southwest Airlines, Toshiba and The World Bank participants will gain insights into how world class finance teams are adapting to today’s volatile and uncertain world with a specific focus on the role of technology in enabling finance to assist in the real time management of business performance.

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