Finance in Practice

Would you know if your plan-to-report cycle was ahead of your peers, or behind them? Most Finance leaders couldn't say either way.

On-demand · 30 minutes

Most Group Finance leaders know that growing through acquisition creates complexity. What's less often named is what that complexity quietly takes away.

On-demand briefing · 45 minutes · Free

Watch on-demand as we discover how CCH Tagetik is helping finance leaders use AI to automate, accelerate, and enhance accuracy across the group close.

On-demand webinar · Free

The European Commission’s Omnibus Proposal aims to simplify sustainability reporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). By raising the reporting threshold to companies with over 1,000 employees, it significantly reduces the number of affected businesse

Azim Khan · 2 min read

In an era where environmental and social responsibility are at the forefront of corporate agendas, sustainability reporting has emerged as a key practice for organisations striving for transparency and accountability. Finance teams play a pivotal role in this paradigm shift, as t

Azim Khan · 2 min read

The landscape of financial consolidation is rapidly changing, with a significant shift towards next-generation cloud tools like CCH Tagetik. Legacy systems, once the backbone of financial consolidation processes in many organisations, are becoming increasingly outdated. This is p

Azim Khan · 2 min read

There’s a certain look finance leaders get when they’re asked for a forecast mid-quarter - part poker face, part mild panic, and part “please let the fire drill end soon.” It’s the look of someone who knows the numbers in front of them are already out of date, but can’t say so ou

Azim Khan · 3 min read

There’s a point in every FP&A professional’s career when they realise they’ve become more historian than strategist - endlessly documenting what happened, with precious little time left to shape what happens next. In the past, you might have spent most of your week reconciling nu

Azim Khan · 5 min read

Excel is the Swiss Army knife of finance - flexible, powerful, and dangerously easy to love. But it wasn’t built to run an end-to-end FP&A process. If your month-end depends on a 70-tab workbook called Budget_V17_FINAL(3)_USETHISONE.xlsx, you’re living on borrowed time. That’s wh

Azim Khan · 4 min read

If month-end feels like assembling a jet mid-flight, this series is for you. The old way relies on heroic spreadsheets, email chains, and guess-work reconciliations that shift problems to Day 0. The new way designs a predictable close, standardises intercompany routines, governs

Azim Khan · 2 min read

The old way bunches work at the cliff-edge of Day 0: late intercompany surprises, ad-hoc FX packs, heroic journals, and status meetings about status. The new way spreads predictable steps across the ten days before close. You’ll use a light weekly rhythm, validate at load, and ro

Azim Khan · 5 min read

No-one loves an ‘Intercompany cliff-edge reveal’: Day 0 arrives, balances don’t agree, and everyone goes digging for “evidence” in chat threads. The fix is simple, if not glamorous - confirm earlier, match systematically, and route disputes to people who can actually decide. This p

Azim Khan · 5 min read