| Finance and Accounting |
| In the Flat World, the CFO has to actively support the business in addition to managing the finances. The CFO is often pulled in opposite directions by business imperatives such as: |
| Strategy related |
 Support the enterprise growth (organic and inorganic) |
| Identify key investment areas |
| Provide analytics-based decision support to manage performance |
| Investor related |
| Speed of reporting |
| Accuracy and integrity of data |
| Compliance |
| Legal and statutory requirements across multiple countries |
| Sarbanes Oxley certification |
| IFRS and US GAAP convergence |
