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Whitepaper - Digital Agenda: The art is to ask the right questions.

• from the Finance Vision 
• about Design Thinking Workshop 
• to the Digital Agenda

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 to profitability management

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

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 Hospital Management - From the past to the future: with the right compass, the hospital can be optimally controlled

• Challenges for hospitals
• Focus on integration and efficiency improvement

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

Whitepaper - MDK Management / Management of the Medical Service of Health Insurance Companies: From primary revenue assurance to quality improvement through smart procedures and optimized reports for the right view of the core factors.

• Challenge and approach
• The most important value contributions of structured MDK management
• Multidimensional reporting
• MDK Risk and fields of action 
• Measure Control

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 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?

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 - Integrated Reporting: Fashion trend or future of corporate reporting?

• Why a paradigm shift in reporting is necessary
• Integrated Reporting at a glance
• Implementation of integrated reporting in practice
• Benefits of Integrated Reporting 

Whitepaper to key figure control: Signal for corporate management with a course towards strategic and operational goals

• Challenges of key figure control
• Potential of key figure control: on the way to the key figure system
• solution approach 

Human Capital Reporting - Overview

4C GROUP AG | International guideline for human capital reporting DIN ISO 30414

• Importance of Human Capital for Organizations
• Core content and application of the guideline
• Benefits and implications

Excerpt from "The Krankenhaus MVZ" - Future of outpatient Care

• Framework conditions
• Structure and Organization
• Interfaces
• Operational management 

4C GROUP AG | A Guide to ESEF / European Single Electronic Format

• FAQs - who is affected, what is to be done, when must one react?
• Effects of ESEF regulation on processes and systems
• Overview of the system providers on the market
• Recommendations and solutions of the 4C GROUP
• Demonstration tagging and XBRL generation using an exemplary solution

4C GROUP AG | SAP S/4HANA Transition Management - The way to SAP S/4HANA: only through excellent transition management you reach your goals!

• Expectations of the "new" tool
• The view of SAP customers and their needs
• The Business Transformation
• S4/HANA Roadmap
• procedure model

4C GROUP AG | Our understanding of change management - using proven approaches - managing change

• Change Management at 4C
• Transporting the right messages
• Keeping employee enthusiasm high in the long term

4C GROUP AG | Implementation or change of business applications

• Initial situation and benefits for the customer
• transformation drivers
• 4 steps to successful transformation
• transformation strategy

4C GROUP AG | Schönhofer Sales & Engineering (SSE) GmbH – RegTech

• Presentation of cooperation between 4C GROUP AG and Schönhofer Sales & Engineering
• Core Technologies for the Next Generation of Regulatory Management: Data Fusion, Real Time Analytics, Forensics/ Visualization, Automation
• Selected examples in the anti-financial crime environment for application and implementation

4C GROUP AG | Conflict of interest management at investment services companies

• Advanced stages of conflict of interest management
• regulatory framework
• Conflict of Interest Policy
• Types of conflicts of interest
• Measures / tools to manage conflicts of interest

Funding Guidelines - Your way through the funding jungle

• Types of public funding
• investment plans 
• innovation projects
• Innovative investment promotion
• 4C ADVISORY provides advice and support on grants and subsidies

Mini e-Book - Regulatory Technology (Regtech)

Competitive advantages and transparency through effective IT controlling - A repositioning of IT controlling beyond budget control is overdue

• Increasing IT requirements
• IT controlling and IT management: value creation phases
• Solution und Consulting approach of the 4C GROUP 
• Benefits of performance-oriented IT controlling

Successful implementation of corporate goals through active management of the project portfolio: Focusing scarce resources on business-critical projects

• Challenges in project portfolio management
• Solution: Intelligent project portfolio management
• Methodical approach and 4C consulting approach
• Benefits and results of a consistent application of project portfolio management

Competitive advantages through effective IT control - The 4C maturity model for evaluating the performance of IT control

• Challenges for the control of a modern IT area
• Determining the Maturity Level of IT Control: Establishing the Maturity Level Assessment for the IT Control Modules
• Solution and 4C consulting approach
• Benefits and results of the maturity model/ maturity assessment
• Recommendations for action and roadmap to the maturity level model 

Project Governance - successfully master the change marathon: How management and top management can still sleep peacefully with 4C Project Governance © in mission-critical projects

• The essential challenges and change processes in companies
• Solution: The initialization of 4C Project Governance ©
• 4C Consulting approach
• Benefits and Results of a Created 4C Project Governance ©: Overview of Key Value Contributions of 4C Project Governance ©

Effective IT risk management creates real value in information technology: IT risk management is much more than just compliance

• Risks in IT and the associated risks in the business processes of companies
• Goals of IT risk management
• Basis for effective IT risk management
• 4C Consulting approach + benefits and results: Enabling effective and efficient risk management 

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 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

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

Effective planning concepts are consistent with the business model

• Efficient and coherent planning processes
• Solution: the 4C Planning Map
• 4C consulting approach: 4C planning assessment method
• Benefits/ Results and Tools

Successfully manage service providers: Success Factors for effective Vendor Management

• Challenges: Managing external service providers or shared service centers
• Factors for result-oriented and successful vendor management 
• Solution: Targeted design and consistent performance of the central tasks of vendor management

Liquidity management in the hospital - a best practice approach

Your liquidity status. Which resources can you access?

Participation controlling

Who knows whats on, can control better

SAP S/4HANA Discovery Workshops

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

Restructuring in Healthcare

How do you find out what is really relevant for your house and how do you shape change?

POLAVIS - The central solution for integrated hospital management

Active planning and controlling in the hospital - all relevant control instruments in one application

Planning and forecasting with Polavis MEDplan

From the fog into the clutter - with the right planning instrument, keep the hospital on track

Case study on agile product development at a financial services provider - with structured creativity to innovative services

The Lean Service Creation approach to developing digital product ideas for a Pure Digital Player in the financial services industry.

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

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

Restructuring and interim management - Finance in hospitals

Case Study - on the way to digital transformation with innovative services for the digital further development of the existing business model

Insight into the digitalization in a German retail bank: Development & implementation of a personal finance management application as well as business model definition & anchoring

Checklist - framework parameters for the perfect consolidation tool

Get a summary of typical criteria for selecting a consolidation system in our checklist.