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Controllership

Gaining a voice in transformation

Controllership’s role has evolved to add value by providing insights that drive business performance and inform strategy. As its role continues to change, controllership is in a unique and influential position to drive how technology and business intersect.

Transforming controllership to transform your organization

What’s your vision for the future of your controllership function?

A winning strategy can start with focusing on elevating the function’s value through real-time data and analytic insights while leveraging automation to become more efficient and agile.

Today’s dynamic business climate needs controllership to think and act strategically. From new and evolving financial accounting standards, to global economic conditions, regulatory requirements, and merger-and-acquisition (M&A) activity, controllership can challenge the status quo by leveraging information and insights that propel the overall success of the business.

This evolution has driven line-of-business leaders to rely on controllership to be a catalyst that delivers efficient and effective processes and data-driven insights, while also being a strategist that identifies opportunities to drive performance.

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Our annual global surveys include insights from thousands of finance and accounting analysts, managers, directors, controllers, and CFOs. View our research and reports including interviews with experienced finance and accounting leaders.

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To stay competitive in the marketplace, companies are leveraging both operating and financial data to develop cost-to-serve models to generate reporting that provides business insights to improve profitability measures. Learn how finance and business professionals are leveraging cost-to-serve reporting to enhance business performance.

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In the face of disruption, technology innovation, and accelerating industry convergence, M&A transactions represent opportunities to evaluate finance initiatives and capture value beyond the transaction. With the right level of forethought and planning before and during the transaction, you can be prepared to use your company’s next M&A transaction as a catalyst to transform your controllership function. For insights into controllership trends within M&A transaction support to finance and accounting, view poll results from our Dbriefs webcast here.

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Sustainability, climate, and equity: many organizations are considering what these concepts for a better future mean for their businesses now. The steps leaders take in the near term can have an impact for years to come, but it’s hard to know where to start. But good things can happen when an organization tackles all three at once: for our planet and people, and for an organization’s future sustainability and prosperity.

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The emerging environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations are imposing more rigor to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the ESG data disclosed, which leads organizations to strengthen their processes especially related to the GHG emissions calculations. Discover the benefits of the Carbon Accounting Accelerators in Workiva to remediate the challenges faced by many organizations when calculating GHG emissions.

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Center for Controllership™

Deloitte’s Center for Controllership program provides resources and solutions to help you stay on top of your organization’s accounting and financial reporting activities; keep up with emerging regulatory guidance, industry, and business developments; and counsel the chief financial officer and finance organization.