From Control to Collaboration ...Finance Shifts Its Focus

Accounting and Financial Reporting

From Control to Collaboration ...Finance Shifts Its Focus

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Everyone 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

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