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JANICE ROEHL-ANDERSON is the Principal in Charge of Deloitte's Enterprise Applications practice in the Northern Pacific Region. As such, she is responsible for facilitating the delivery of all ERP-related services. Jan has managed the implementation of numerous enterprise resource planning, customer relationship man-agement, and human resource management software packages, including ones from Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, and Siebel. She has over twenty years of global systems-related experience in a variety of sectors including consumer business, media and entertainment, communications, high-tech manufacturing, state and local government, and financial institutions. She has coauthored over ten books for John Wiley & Sons and has successfully completed the CPA Exam.

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Praise for IT Best Practices

"The work of the financial manager revolves around a company's financial systems. Ms. Roehl-Anderson's latest offering addresses the two key aspects of these systems--how to buy and install them. The book covers every conceivable aspect of these systems, including ERP, software as a service, shared services, and supporting controls. As a bonus, the book contains substantial coverage of information technology considerations in an acquisition. This is a definitive desk reference." --Steve Bragg, CFO, XeDAR Corporation, and author of Accounting Best Practices

"Sage advice from one of the most adept project managers in the industry! Jan and team have delivered a practical, yet comprehensive guidebook for software selection, implementation, rollout, and ongoing updates. This guidebook will become a valuable reference for every financial manager and IT project manager undertaking ERP implementation."--Valerie Borthwick, former senior vice president, Oracle Consulting

"Written by one of the best in the IT business, this book is a must-read for all CFOs and controllers. In one volume, it addresses everything a financial executive needs to know about IT and its impact on the financial function, while also featuring practical guidelines, current hot topics, and IT best practices. This book covers it all."--Jo Marie Dancik, Regional Managing Partner (Retired), Ernst & Young

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With the tremendous amount of change in the systems world over the last several years, it is incredibly challenging to stay abreast of the latest system trends and best practices for finance. A comprehensive guide CFOs and controllers will rely on to radically improve organizational productivity, increase revenue, and decrease spending, IT Best Practices for Financial Managers defines clear action plans for the specific phases of IT implementation, including scoping, planning, designing, building, testing, and deploying, and looks at the roles and responsibilities of the CFO to enhance security, controls, and privacy.

Thorough and thoughtful, IT Best Practices for Financial Managers highlights one of the most important aspects of the CFO's job ensuring that financially related systems are implemented on time and on budget, with secure and reliable systems.

Its practical coverage offers timely discussion of:

• IFRS and its relevance to the CFO

• The IT technology planning process

• ERP software selection

• The software implementation process

• Critical success factors for IT implementations

• Steering clear of "people pitfalls"

• Shared services and financial systems

• Globalization trends in offshore IT

• The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on financial systems implementations

• The phenomenon of software as a service

• eCommerce

• Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and IT

The only constant about information technology is it is constantly changing. IT Best Practices for Financial Managers focuses on providing financial executives with an understanding of some of the most important system-related areas that can impact the finance function. Filled with best practices for selecting, implementing, and maintaining systems, this jargon-free, insightful guide helps financial executives in every field to add value to their organizations via the IT function.