IT Best Practices for Financial Managers

'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

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.