Finance & Accounting
Explore the Finance & Accounting SSO landscape with interactive Visual Analytics Workbooks. Filter many facets to find the answers to your F&A SS&O questions.
R2R Automation: How Effective is it to date?
This visual analytics workbook highlights where manual effort is predominant, how much it costs organizations, and what real automation would save...
Published August 2026
Published August 2026
End-to-End Process Integration and Optimization
Finance end-to-end (E2E) process integration and optimization is critical for organizations looking to maximize efficiency, minimize costs, and enhance overall financial performance.
Published March 2023
Published March 2023
Benchmarking Against AR Performance, Challenges & Initiatives in 2022
Accounts receivable (AR) teams are in charge of receiving funds on behalf of a company and applying it to their current pending balances. SSON’s “AR Pulse Check 2022” polled shared services and finance professionals to determine some of the key objectives and challenges.
Published September 2022
Published September 2022
Financial Close: Leveraging Automation to Drive Performance
SSON surveyed over 100 finance executives to understand their finance service delivery model and how they are managing their financial close process. The survey sheds light on the challenges faced, identifies critical gaps and showcases opportunities for improvement.
Published May 2022
Published May 2022
The Global State of AP Automation Survey 2021
SSON surveyed the global industry to understand the current organizational model, automation approach and efficiency levels of accounts payable (AP) teams. The survey also uncovers the types of invoices processed, how invoice processing has been impacted by the pandemic and highlights the key priori
Published November 2021
Published November 2021
Finance Shared Services of the Future: Promoting Digital Performance through IA, Data Analytics, and a New Talent Profile
SSON Analytics has analyzed more than 1,000 Finance Shared Services Centers (SSCs) across the United States. This report includes a heat-map visualizing where enterprises have chosen to base their Finance SSCs and also uncovers the latest IA implementation strategies, most popular finance tools...
Published February 2020
Published February 2020
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