Finance Leaders on Sourcing Success

15 August 2012 by ACCA

This report presents the results of a global survey of finance leaders on the aims and effectiveness of finance shared services and outsourcing programmes. It explores initial drivers behind adopting finance shared services and outsourcing finance operations, and considers how these are evolving and the success of current approaches.

Findings from a groundbreaking global ACCA study are presented, using data powered by HfS Research, on the adoption of finance shared services and outsourcing models.

It provides insights on the shared service strategies finance leaders are adopting, and gauges their view on the effectiveness of current approaches.

Importantly, the survey's responses mainly came from CFOs and finance directors, and were complemented by responses from finance transformation leaders, heads of shared services and / or outsourcing, and shared services leaders whose responsibilities are more directly aligned with implementation and delivery of finance shared services and outsourcing.