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This research defines the key characteristics of finance functions at leading organizations, and also demonstrates the critical role people play in delivering success.

Many finance functions are struggling to provide the required level of business support. There are many barriers – complex system architectures, poor quality data, non-standard processes, multiple business metrics misaligned to underlying data sets, to name only a few. The barriers result in finance functions performing large quantities of downloading and rework, and hampers their ability to effectively predict fast moving economic shifts. A deep understanding of what drives business value is largely absent within many finance functions.

What lessons can a leading finance function impart for those still striving to reach the very top? And possibly more importantly, how can challenged finance functions improve to better support their business leaders?

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