The 21st Century Disclosure Initiative Will Reprioritize Your Business Intelligence and Performance Management Strategies

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13 February 2009

Michael Smith Bill Hostmann John E. Van Decker

The events that led up to the global economic recession call for greater transparency and financial disclosure. Regulatory reforms are on their way. Publicly traded companies should use these regulatory reforms to gain a competitive advantage, rather than treat them as a cost of doing business.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

2.0

Transformation of Financial Disclosure From Documents to Structured Data

3.0

Emergence of Standardized Voluntary Disclosure Taxonomies

3.1

Potential Liability for Voluntary Financial Disclosure

4.0

The Actions Necessary to Exploit These Reforms and Gain Competitive Advantage Using Internal Business Intelligence and Performance Management Capabilities

4.1		Phase 1 — Required in Year 1: Last Mile of Finance Approaches
4.2		Phase 2 — Evolving, Year 2: Business Intelligence Platform Approaches
4.3		Phase 3 — Future: ERP and Operational Platforms

5.0

Business Intelligence and Performance Management Professionals Need to Be Involved

6.0

Benefits — Creating the Opportunity for More-Focused Business Intelligence and Performance Management

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Structured Data Disclosure Categories

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Technology-Oriented Scenarios

Corporate Governance Regulations
Financial Management Software
Business Intelligence
Performance Management
XML Documents
Business and IT Alignment

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