The Peter Charles Audio Podcast
by Peter Charles Limited
This monthly podcast is a short, gritty conversation between award winning financial journalist, Peter Williams, and a practising financial professional working at the sharp end of today's business world. It's of interest to any CFO, FD or FC facing the challenges of modern business. Peter Charles provides bespoke, experienced teams that investigate finance function issues that can undermine business progress. They then work alongside existing finance teams to design and implement a programme to remove the obstacles and dramatically improve business performance.
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Building Capability in the Finance Department
The value of a corporate finance department that's scalable is that, adding capacity, adding turnover, adding transactions, even acquiring other businesses, isn't directly commensurate with number of people you need to add to support that. If the processes are well designed and the structure is...
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Thought Piece: Turnaround
Award winning Finance Journalist, Peter Williams, discusses developments in Turnaround with Peter Charles.
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Shared Service Centres; benefits, risks, why and when
Shared Service Centres (SSCs) are one of the key ways forward for large corporations with geographically widespread and diverse businesses. Shared services are a formal method of internal outsourcing where a function – such as accounting – is re-engineered and standardised. SSCs allow…
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How to restructure and take the staff with you
Invariably the path to organisational success is underpinned by a partnership with its people but there's no standard or fixed HR solution to this. HR needs to be commercial and must evolve according to business objectives. Award winning financial journalist, Peter Williams, finds out more from...
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Transition points
Having worked with many businesses in different sectors and with all types of capital structures, we can honestly say that the answer is not obvious. What we can say is that key to a company’s continued success is its ability to recognise and respond to its Transition Point.
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Problems with data warehouses
Many companies have multiple data warehouses. There may be good reasons for this, for instance legacy systems acquired through mergers or acquisitions, but senior directors should try their best to have only one data warehouse in the company to ensure maximum productivity and minimum confusion....
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The point of finance...
Everyone just accepts the presence of a Finance Department in any and every type of organisation but not everyone agrees on exactly what the department should be doing – and that includes the people who work in it. Peter Williams, award winning financial journalist in conversation with Peter...
About this show
This monthly podcast is a short, gritty conversation between award winning financial journalist, Peter Williams, and a practising financial professional working at the sharp end of today's business world. It's of interest to any CFO, FD or FC facing the challenges of modern business. Peter Charles provides bespoke, experienced teams that investigate finance function issues that can undermine business progress. They then work alongside existing finance teams to design and implement a programme to remove the obstacles and dramatically improve business performance.
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