Listly by André Salomons
Source: http://www.financialsuite.net/Paginas/FastClose.aspx
At period end procedures are in place to close the books, preventing new transactions in a reported period. After closing checks and balances are performed and analyses are made. When everything is ok, the financial statements as balance sheet, income statements and stement of retained earnings can be produced and distributed to audiences as management, the board and other stakeholders.
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Financial management on SharePoint
Structured data storage saves money
Managing tasks is a lot easier than with Excel
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IAS, amongst others IFRS, support
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SharePoint has many in-built workflows that can be utilised to manage a business process. For example, if a policy needs to be approved by several stakeholders in a chain, this is easily achievable.
SharePoint ships with auditing capabilities out of the box, although they need to be configured and turned on at both the site collection and site level. Once they are configured at this level it’s then possible to configure at the list containing your contracts. This way you can monitor the contracts such as who opened, moved, edited, deleted a contract. Every change is added to the contract information.
Because you demand security for your data in The Cloud. SAS 70 II/ISAE3402 type 2 /SSAE16 assures that your data is protected and secure and that the procedures are floowed resulting in an audit report on the standard.
More often than not, contracts need to be managed and acknowledged by internal users. These contracts should be located on an area of the Intranet. However, quite often you may wish to make them visible to partners, contractors who are external to your organization. SharePoint can be configured in such a way that these users can also gain access to the policies, without compromising security
SharePoint has a multitude of ways to help teams work together. Within 5 minutes a SharePoint site can be created to allow staff to have discussions, create documentation on wikis, manage tasks, calendars links. All of this can benefit from built in security ensuring only those that are supposed to contribute and / or view can.