SSCs are an important part of the financial landscape - they are now making an impact in the public sector, indeed there are two national NHS pilots in Bristol and Leeds. (More information about which can be found http://www.doh.gov.uk/sharedservices/
Written by Martin Fahy and Pat Ibbotson, Financial Shared Services Centres: Public Sector Settings provides an overview of the shared services concept and helps keep you up to date with the issues.
e-Payables - Why the fuss? Author: FASSBEX Editor Added: 13/08/2002 Type: Registered Members Only Viewed: 214 time(s)
e-Payables is used to describe virtually everything from an electronically integrated order to payment process system to a simple Bank Transfer file compilation and interfacing to Bank system (BACS type payment process). How do you see it?
How are shared services expanding their scope? What are the key enablers? How do organisations migrate to shared services?
What pricing models are being adopted?
These are just some of the questions this survey addresses.
Benchmarking Credit and Collections activities presents some interesting challenges. Unlike most other finance and accounting processes there is a very significant and quantifiable cost of getting it wrong. The most important measure is effectiveness rather than efficiency.