The study surveyed over 5,000 top executives (643 CFOs) about what the future holds and how they’re preparing their organizations for the “age of disruption.” The resulting CFO study outlines what the ‘financial sages’ of the most successful...
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Telecoms profits are being squeezed with costs from development, spectrum and legacy systems eating revenues. These have driven major change in individual companies as well as the market as a whole. Here we discuss the 3 biggest contributing factors...
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As sponsors of the upcoming Global Telecoms Business Finance Summit next week, we’ll have the opportunity to speak with telecoms leaders about top-of-mind challenges like revenue management and IFRS 15 / ASC 606 compliance.
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There is a world of difference between the tactical and strategic CFO. It was clear in 2015 and the divide will only grow in 2016. We know the aim is to manage a team, their capabilities and the reporting they produce all while leaving time and...
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It's easy to tell when the pressure is mounting around any public event and the deadline for IFRS 15 (ASC 606 in the US) is no different. More people show interest, words like "deadline" and "countdown" are thrown around and the experts start...
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Aptitude Software president Tom Crawford and SVP of Product and Delivery Martin Redington led a discussion about IFRS 15 and what European operators can learn from their peers in the US and Asia.
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Join Aptitude Software to discuss how European telcos are progressing with IFRS 15 compliance projects. The standard has an effective date of 1 January 2018 with retrospective reporting expected for the preceding year, giving a relatively small...
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Aptitude Software was recognized for empowering a major bank to:
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In the article, we argued that the new IFRS 15 accounting change requirement is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for CFOs. Can that be right? Can accounting change ever be an opportunity?
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The deadline for full IFRS 9 adoption is 1 January 2018, but with comparative reporting from 1 January 2017, most organisations have already started project assessment for building during 2016. This leaves a mere 18 months to implement the changes...