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CFOs Find It's Nice to Share, within Limits

Finance departments are continuing to move functions to offshore shared-services groups but are stopping short of full globalization.

October 27, 2009

Large companies are getting more comfortable with using shared-services centers and are considering whether to move more finance transactions into the organizations, which can be run in-house or by a service provider. Read more...

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