Finance Management

Cost and activity accounting indispensable in the age of digitisation? Increase the benefit!

• Challenges: are the old ones - only in higher cycles and greater complexity
• Cost and activity accounting is more than a BAB or a disregarded cost center evaluation.
• 4C Healthcheck for a sound analysis of the KLR in your company

Case Study on Lean Planning at a leading global provider of special medical products - lean planning is only useful under certain conditions

Successful implementation of a worldwide lean planning

Case study of a pharmaceutical company - improve planning without overstraining the workforce

Implementation of a concept for planning and control processes to increase planning quality and safety

Case study on planning in a technology company - Planning must be? Then please helpful and fast

Development of a planning process and standardized project procedure in the area of application systems at a technology company

Case study for the development of a uniform control concept for a spectacle manufacturer - Creating flexibility and an increase in the quality of planning and control

Development of a uniform, group-wide and information-based control concept

Case study on sales planning in an IT service and consulting company group - we get your numbers rolling

Analysis, implementation and support in setting up rolling sales planning

Digitization and many innovative tools - and we fight with Excel and user exits! A new tool must come! You can see the computer revolution everywhere just not in the productivity statistics

• What's the problem?
• 4C Solutions-Navigator - take the right tool in your hand!  

Whitepaper to IFRS 16 - More than just balance sheet effects

The application of IFRS 16 has far-reaching accounting, organizational, procedural and technical implications. We provide an overview of:

• Challenges
• Solutions
• Standardized process model to IFRS 16

Whitepaper to process mining - unprecedented transparency opens up the potential for standardization and permanent optimization!

Contents at a glance:

1. Challenges 
2. Identifying potentials 
3. Measure the success 
4. Best practice approach

Case study on the liquidity bottleneck of an hospital - financial management in times of crisis

Restructuring and interim management - Finance in hospitals

Whitepaper Target Operating Model - Preparation for CFO 4.0: Without a clear target image of the future finance organization, the CFO area will become the company's dinosaur!

• How can the new available data be integrated into the reporting?
• What does reporting and control look like under industry 4.0 sign?
• What effect will the relocation of CRM systems to the cloud have on the CFO? 
• Is the old paradigm that every number in the company must come from the CFO area losing its validity?
• Can one trust the promises of the manufacturers who once again promise integration?
• When can reporting and planning finally become part of general corporate management and not a controlling event?

SAP S/4HANA Discovery Workshops

Evaluate the potential of SAP S/4HANA finance for your company - individual, compact and fast!

Whitepaper to CSR reporting - legal duty and marketing dumb or meaningful control?

Since 2014, certain companies have been obliged to publish non-financial information on corporate social responsibility. We provide an overview of CSR reporting:

1. Challenges in CSR Reporting 
2. Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
3. Benefit of CSR Reporting

Whitepaper for Digital Finance - Digitization will increasingly change finance

Contents at a glance:  

1. Where does digitization begin? 
2. Digitization is the project to use digital technology to offer new products, to improve processes and to improve communication and networking 
3. Digital Strategy, Digital Operations and Digital Capabilities

Whitepaper electronic invoicing - paper invoices are a thing of the past: The ZUGFeRD format - an industry initiative

• e-Invoice - everyone creates their own standard
• The ZUGFeRD* format - an industry initiative

Whitepaper to process automation using the example purchase to pay - What happens to the accounts payable accountant?

The advancing digitalization promotes a process automation of the Purchase-2-Pay process and turns the buyer into an accountant - or vice versa!

• Why process automation at all?
• The choice of a suitable change management approach is of utmost importance for the success of the project.  

Whitepaper to profitability management

• Objectives of profitability and cost management
• Basics and principles
• Instrument kit

Effective group controlling ensures efficiency gains in group controlling: Success factors for the implementation of a successful group controlling

• Why do we need effective group controlling?
• Solutions and 4C Method for effective group controlling
• Benefits and results

Innovation Management - Laying the foundation for tomorrow's business: Not the generation of ideas, but their structured implementation to market maturity differentiates the champions from the competition

• Innovation as one of the essential success factors of a company
• Effective control and efficient organization
• 4C Consulting approach and benefits and results

Minimalism in Reporting - The 4C Notation ©: How to use a company-specific presentation to make your reporting appealing, thus increasing the acceptance and effectiveness of your top management

• General rules of 4C notation ©
• Negative Rules and positive rules of Notation
• Guidelines for column and bar diagrams

Reporting requires a structured closing process: Period ending - the inconspicuous process that depends a lot

• Significance of the closing process for corporate management
• best practice
• Approach 4C GROUP

Top management reporting: Focusing corporate management on real key performance indicators - Powerful control concepts are the prerequisite for effective management cockpits

• Need for effective and transparent control information as a starting point for the introduction of a Management Cockpit
• 4C approach to developing an effective management cockpit
• Advantages and Benefits of a Management Cockpit

Cost management - more than just cost reduction: Advantages of continuous potential control

• Cost management - a central topic of corporate management
• Solution: Control model aligned with the entire value chain
• 4C consulting approach: holistic consideration of all relevant components of cost management
• Results and benefits

Creating the foundation for effective performance management: The path from controlling to corporate management

• Initial situation and basis for successful performance management
• 4C approach: creation of an instrument matrix 
• Benefits and results: Support for the overarching management of the company and its individual divisions

Risk management: Ensuring long-term economic health of your company by actively managing opportunities and risks

• Challenges in managing risks
• 4C model for integrated management of operational risks
• Benefits and results: Advantages of integrated risk management

Whitepaper for Reporting Factory - Reporting and digitization

• Reporting 4.0 - digital and efficient
• Challenges of the implementation
• Best Practice - Reporting Factory in its purest form