From Control to Collaboration ...Finance Shifts Its Focus
Accounting and Financial Reporting
        
                  From Control to Collaboration ...Finance Shifts Its Focus
DownloadEveryone would likely agree that the most successful organizations are those that see change coming and respond in ways that meet the needs and the desires of their customers. A recent example can be seen in the fast food industry. Many customers’ fast-food consumption patterns were set when the first chain restaurant saw the public demand for electronic payment and put VISA, MasterCard, or other logos on its doors and drive-through windows.
While government finance offices have a different mission than do fast food restaurants, public sector organizations face many of the same challenges as firms operating in the competitive marketplace.
Publication Date: August 2006