IBM’s THINK conference, just held this February in San Francisco, is IBM's annual user conference. THINK is designed to showcase upcoming product updates and releases from IBM, along with provide best practices on a wide range of topics. While many technologies were on display, there is one topic in particular I wanted to cover this year: Blockchain.
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
IBM,
Financial Performance Management,
FPM,
Digital Technology,
blockchain
We’re in a new era of trade, the result of converging issues that have been building for at least a decade. Structurally and politically, the liberal ethos that drove the trade environment through the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st has changed. There will be a new equilibrium in the future; getting there, though, will be a bumpy ride. Adding to the challenges posed by a shifting trade environment are commodity and currency market volatility and the impacts of ongoing legal,...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Recurring Revenue,
Continuous Planning,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Inventory Optimization,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Sales and Operations Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Sales Planning and Analytics,
revenue recognition
New rules governing revenue recognition for contracts have gone into effect for larger companies and are about to go into effect for smaller ones. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which administers Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the U.S. (US-GAAP), has issued ASC 606 and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which administers International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) used in most other countries, has issued IFRS 15. The two standards are very...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Recurring Revenue,
Continuous Planning,
Sales Performance Management,
Financial Performance Management,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Sales Planning and Analytics,
Billing and Recurring Revenue,
revenue recognition