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Corporate Executive Board Overview | 21<br />
India Finance Peer Group<br />
Exclusive online <strong>for</strong>um <strong>for</strong> India-based members of the CFO Executive Board<br />
The CFO Executive Board is pleased to present an online India-specifi c peer discussion <strong>for</strong>um consisting of more<br />
than 300 members (including CFOs and their key personnel) to facilitate robust discussion around pressing<br />
member challenges.<br />
India Finance EPNGroup is an e-mail-based discussion <strong>for</strong>um that allows<br />
India-based CFOs and their staff to pose questions to their Indian peers in an<br />
easy, quick, and anonymous manner. The issues discussed vary from strategic<br />
to daily workfl ow-related problems on areas such as tax, accounting, fi nancial<br />
planning and analysis, risk management, fi nance operations, and training and<br />
development among others. Hundreds of executives use this online channel to<br />
leverage their peers’ insights and tested solutions on their issues.<br />
Key Features<br />
Tailored Research Insights—Generate peer insights tailored to your challenge.<br />
Single Output Report—All responses are aggregated, summarized, and sent to the entire group in the<br />
<strong>for</strong>m of an e-mail.<br />
Guaranteed Confi dentiality—All groups are moderated, and contact details of members submitting<br />
questions and answers are reported under an appropriate pseudonym.<br />
Networking Opportunities—The CFO Executive Board can, in certain instances, facilitate direct<br />
networking if requested by members.<br />
Archived Discussion Summaries—All discussion threads are uploaded on the CFO Executive Board<br />
Web site to enable review by members at a convenient time.<br />
Sample Questions Asked in Peer Groups<br />
“Who does the head of <strong>Financial</strong> Planning and Analysis (FP&A) report to? How many FTEs are allocated to FP&A?<br />
What is the approximate size of FP&A budget (real and as a percentage of revenue), and how much of it is<br />
discretionary?”<br />
VP Finance<br />
Professional Services Company<br />
“We are in the course of reevaluating our planning and <strong>for</strong>ecasting processes and systems and would appreciate<br />
feedback from the group on the following areas:<br />
Which ERP planning and <strong>for</strong>ecasting solutions are the other companies using?<br />
Can these solutions eliminate the need <strong>for</strong> spreadsheet models in the budgeting process?<br />
Can these solutions be used to per<strong>for</strong>m “what if” scenarios including Monte Carlo Simulations?”<br />
Senior Director of <strong>Financial</strong> Services<br />
Leisure Company<br />
“I’m interested in how other ERM practitioners are managing in<strong>for</strong>mation gathered in the course of conducting risk<br />
assessments and studies.<br />
Do you use software specifi cally designed <strong>for</strong> this purpose?<br />
How do you consolidate the results of various assessments to draw a broader view of enterprise-wide risk exposure?”<br />
General Manager—Finance and Risk<br />
Energy Company
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