One strategy to protect and/or increase margins is through acquisitions that can contribute to financial performance. According to the HBR, companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year. Yet study after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions somewhere between 70% and 90%.
The world has moved online, and so have our bazaars. Large online e-commerce platforms are replacing offline channels as the preferred mode of buying, where the experience is digital and connected. This changing buyer behavior has compelled large e-commerce and even hybrid businesses to put the data at the center stage of their growth strategies.
The following describes a new category of managerial cost accounting and performance management – Activity Value Management (AVM). AVM is a new way of thinking about cost and the ultimate use of financial and non-financial information to identify opportunities for both performance improvement as well as targeting areas for expansion and divestiture.
Whenever I talk to Finance leaders about “Finance Observability” they get excited. The questions range from – How Observability is different from the KPI reporting to how Finance teams can benefit from it.
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