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E1 – Managing Finance in a Digital World
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Free E1 – Managing Finance in a Digital World study notes for CIMA (CGMA Professional Qualification) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
A. Role of the finance function
Enabling value creation and preservation
Shaping value creation and preservation
Narrating value creation and preservation
Collating data to prepare information
Providing insight by analysing information
Communicating insight to influence users
Supporting the implementation of decisions
Connecting activities across the organisation
B. Technology in a digital world
The fourth industrial revolution
Key technologies driving the digital world
How the finance function uses digital technologies
Digital mindsets
Automation and the future of work
Ethics of technology usage
C. Data and information in a digital world
General usage of data in finance
Data in the primary activities of finance
Data strategy and planning
Data engineering, extraction and mining (ETL)
Data modelling, manipulation and analysis
Data and insight communication (visualisation)
D. Shape and structure of the finance function
Evolution of the shape of the finance function
The finance function in the digital era
Finance operations
Specialist areas and FP&A
Strategic partnering for value
Strategic leadership of the finance team
E. Finance interacting with the organisation
Finance and operations
Interfaces between operations and finance
Operations key performance indicators
Finance and sales and marketing
Interfaces between sales, marketing and finance
Sales and marketing key performance indicators
Finance and human resources
Finance and IT
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