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Think Finance different ... disrupt historic principles
How might we stay in game? What do we need to achieve digital transformation ? What can i utilize our basics to drive innovation? How might we embrace change to take strategic advantage? How might we (Accounting) create impact for our company?Presentation:
Inken März Accounting Summit Moderation
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Company cards for more efficiency: Why no-card policy is a mistake
For decades, many companies have had a long-outdated attitude towards the use of company cards by their employees. In this session, an expert in digitizing finance processes will explain why these companies are making a mistake. You'll learn the benefits in terms of security, cost control and increased efficiency for those who rely on an integrated solution of expense management software and smart corporate cards. And you'll find out how digital spend management can prepare your company for future ESG policies.Presentation:
Inken März Accounting Summit Moderation
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11:00Panel discussion
ESG Reporting - Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Dirk Guntermann Hannover Rück-Gruppe
Katharina Herzog HUGO BOSS
Stefan Köhler flaconi
Tobias Riffel LucaNet
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Jil Rohrbeck GIANT
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11:45Panel discussion
Skill Development & Enabling der Finance & Controlling Teams
Which success-critical skills do teams need now and in the future? How can these skills be developed? How must the accountant of the future be positioned? How can finance leads use storytelling to achieve this?André Hiesl Serviceplan Group
Dr. Richard Strate Gewoba
Steffen Pyka Trivago
Franziska Teutscher Snipes
Carina Denker Clinomic
Harry Langenfeld FloQast
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Stephanie Bräuchle DKMS Group
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10:00 Eyes closed and through? Never fly blind through the AP process again!
In our Basware Masterclass, we talk about how to get full visibility based on AI powered insights in your Basware AP process. Never make bad decisions again and optimize the AP process through continuous improvement to get maximum automation.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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10:30 The best of greenfield and brownfield - optimize your financial processes sustainably with the BLUEFIELD™ approach
The transformation to SAP S/4HANA enables you to lay the foundation for an agile and future-proof corporate world. As a happy medium, the BLUEFIELD™ approach from our partner SNP combines the advantages of greenfield and brownfield. This enables you to retain selected processes and settings while cleansing obsolete data. Learn more about how selective data transformation can be used to migrate functions and data that are still required for your financial processes in a single step, while flexibly adding new requirements. As a result, IT landscapes can be restructured and modernized much faster, and data can be transferred securely to new systems or cloud environments. Let's move your digital finance forward together!Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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11:00 Navigate Your Growth Journey with Workday Finance: A Look at Staffbase
In this session, we'll explore how Staffbase, a leading employee communications cloud and intranet, utilizes Workday Finance to support its rapid growth and global expansion. As Staffbase transitioned from a startup to a "unicorn" company with more than 800 employees worldwide, Workday Finance has been instrumental in ensuring efficient financial operations. Our discussion will highlight how Workday Finance supports Staffbase's mergers and acquisitions activities, facilitates internal communication, and contributes to the company's continuous growth strategy. Join us to understand the role of Workday Finance in Staffbase's successful journey and gather insights that could help your own organization's growth trajectory.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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11:15 The Modern Finance Tech Stack: Best Practices and Learnings from Bayer AG
Together, Sergio Zunino, Head of Accounting Integration at Bayer AG and Jens Leucke, Head of DACH at Pleo, talk about the ideal tech stack of the modern finance team. They highlight best practices and learnings from Bayer AG in the dynamics of deciding on the right system and which parameters should be considered. Key Take-Aways: - Valuable insights and actionable tips from an experienced finance leader. - Which decision parameters to set in senior management - How the right tools can help you get a clearer view of your corporate financesPresentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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11:30 "360 Degree Talk: Challenges and Strategies for Digitizing the Office of Finance."
The digitization of the Office of Finance involves overcoming various hurdles. In our 360-degree talk, you will learn first-hand how digitalization in Finance was mastered. LucaNet and KMPG share their view of what is important for a successful finance software project and what matters.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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12:00 The Deployment Spike: Case Studies in New Tech Deployments Upending Controls
New eInvoicing solution, ERP migration, M&A. Have you just gone through one of these? Or have it scheduled for 2024? During this session, we will walk through data-based case studies highlighting the impact on invoice processing and payments during new tech deployments. Then, we will show you how to recover any payment errors and prevent them in the future.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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10:00 The e-invoicing obligation in Germany and Europe is coming! How do you prepare your company until 2025?
The German government is planning a national electronic reporting system to combat VAT fraud by 2025. There is already a discussion paper on this existing since April, in which the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) published its ideas on the introduction of a mandatory e-invoice for domestic B2B sales. Effectively, this means there will be a mandatory e-invoicing requirement from 2025, which will affect all companies in the B2B environment - whether large or small. In Quadient’s Masterclass, you will receive a comprehensive overview of the topic, the current state of discussions, plus helpful tips on how to prepare your invoicing process early for the upcoming changes.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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10:30 How Transformer AI technology is revolutionizing processes in the back office (and how you can benefit directly from it).
The latest advances in AI in the field of language understanding and image interpretation are turning work in the back office upside down and offer unimagined opportunities for your company as well. In this presentation, Dr. Ulrich Erxleben explains how Deep Learning can be used to fully automate typical processes such as processing incoming invoices or accepting orders from internal and cross-company data. The following questions will be explained in more detail: How does generative AI increase process efficiency? What type of AI models provide the best results for FinOps use cases? Can you teach generative AI models to manage your specific workflow processes? How long will it take to train them? How can you get started with generative AI with your current IT setup? How can generative AI be implemented from document capture to posting? To put theory into practice, a "live demo" will demonstrate how to process an accounts payable invoice using an everyday use case. Other use cases will be explained and supported with case studies. The presentation is designed for business leaders, shared service center managers, CTOs and CFOs who want to learn more about the latest developments in voice AI technology and the benefits of back-office automation.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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11:00 Leaving Traditions Behind: Strengthening Q&A by implementing modern approaches
How automation in the R2R process created a more efficient organization capable of delivering predictive insights and making data-driven decisions.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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11:30 Single Point of Business - E-Invoices with SAP
The e-invoice wave is rolling towards us. Find out what challenges await you and how you can master your invoicing processes with solutions from AFI Solutions without having to use additional providers or converters. The AFI approach is: One solution as a single point of business for your accounting in SAP.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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12:00 Mastering electronic data exchange: Innovative technologies for transparent accounting processes in SAP
In the Masterclass, GOpus puts a special focus on the key role of message exchange in FI and shows how innovative technologies can optimize processes and make them transparent. The event will present modern message exchange technologies for seamless integration of SAP with subsystems, portals and data service providers (EDI, printing, conversion, etc.), including efficient transmission and archiving of e-invoices. An expert will explain practical implementation and usage strategies with a focus on cost efficiency, data security and support, and present comprehensive message monitoring - a critical step to improving your accounting and successfully addressing FI document challenges.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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Accounting Summit Startup Awards
Niclas Storz Tidely
Steffen Minier Taxmaro
Sebastian Wengryn ContractHero
Dr. Siebelt Habben DESTOreport
David Weber Nooxit
Samir Kharkan Scalue
Jens Quadbeck Finmatics
Thomas Prokopp Airrange
Stephan Schuller FOMA
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Inken März Accounting Summit Moderation
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14:30Panel discussion
Panel - Shared Service Center
What needs to be considered when setting up a shared service center? Site selection, planning and co.Presentation:
Andreas Schmelzer Porsche Holding
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13:30 Budget Pioneers of the Future - Control and Freedom through Digitalization in Harmony
Trust is good, but financial controlling is usually better. How can you reasonably reconcile the requirements of the finance department with today's employees' desire for autonomy? This requires good communication and the right automation.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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14:00 How the Lapp Group implemented a modern, integrated analysis and planning application for financial and operational control with the help of Apliqo.
The Lapp Group is an internationally active, family-run company for which the reporting and planning process is an important management tool. Within these processes, there have been different challenges in the past. In this masterclass you will learn from the person responsible for the project how Lapp overcame these challenges by using Apliqo. Challenges: Structure - lack of a unified ERP system and different levels of granularity, complicating the analysis and planning process. Reporting - lack of global standard reporting (tool), encourages sending static reports via Excel or pdf. Planning - group-wide planning on Excel, increases the number of possible errors and the turnaround time for planning After a lengthy evaluation process, the Lapp Group has significantly improved the reporting and planning process with the Apliqo FPM solution developed by Cubewise. Solutions A database that serves as the basis for financial and operational data A reporting system that provides any analysis for P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, as well as operational analysis areas (sales, margins, headcount, price/quantity, transfer prices) An integrated and driver-based planning solution (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) that moves the company away from Excel and simplifies the planning process A modern web front-end that enables users to take the analysis and planning process to another level.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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14:30 Touchless Processing: More transparency, faster results, less effort
- How to automatically capture, robotically reconcile and process documents in one place - Why integrated collaboration between purchasing and accounts payable is critical to success - How to design the purchase-to-payment process with all procurement and invoice processes for expensesPresentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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15:00 The job as an accountant in times of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence
What is the future? More tools and fewer professionals? The market changes, trends change, people change, but the core and fundamentals of accounting remain. What are the requirements in today's world? What do accountants, the market, the companies need? In the midst of the "War of Accounting Talents", DONE!Financials believes that professional know-how and the right experts are more important than ever, even in times of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence. After all, any tool can only be as good as the person using it.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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13:30 Navigating ESG, DCGK, DSGVO & Co: Successful Approaches to Stress-Free Compliance Management for Accounting Teams
The new compliance guidelines and their observance are constantly gaining in importance in a changing business world. This is accompanied by new compliance requirements and the efficient management of these across different teams and business units. In the Masterclass, we show how you can introduce control mechanisms, design processes efficiently and optimize audit preparation.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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14:00 From ERP to RPA: selection and scoping in digital transformation
Technologies are not only becoming increasingly important in the accounting environment, but also more and more numerous. In our master class, you will learn which technologies a company should have on its radar, how to distinguish between them, which use cases they apply to, and how to select the right provider on the large market, based on practical examples.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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14:30 Make your SAP R2R accounting process fit for the future
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Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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15:00 Be a summit climber in a VUKA world
Today, the challenges of the VUKA world are more relevant than ever before, especially in accounting. One key to success is a flexible, structured and especially resource-efficient toolbox. The use of digital solutions automatizes recurring processes and clears space, so that you can focus on aspects of your core business. In his Masterclass, Christian Neuser presents how you can survive in these dynamic and uncertain times and climb the VUKA summit.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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New Work, New World: How innovative working methods are changing accounting
In a rapidly changing business world, it is imperative that companies adapt and implement innovative ways of working to remain competitive. The implementation of New Work in my area of responsibility demonstrates how a traditional company can transform the way employees work in a "traditional department" while achieving the goal of the "Best Workplace to Be." In my presentation, I will explain how the implementation of New Work has helped to make the workplace more attractive and how this has become a competitive advantage for us.Presentation:
Inken März Accounting Summit Moderation
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16:30Panel discussion
Impact Accounting - how Accounting can be sustainable
How to switch over to sustainable accounting and be efficient at the same time.Presentation:
Jana Scharfschwerdt CFO-on-demand
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17:15Presentation
From Start Up- to Corporate Accounting
What challenges does accounting face in a growing company? A field report that sheds light on the effects of growth and corporate goals on accounting and presents its supporting role for corporate development.Presentation:
Inken März Accounting Summit Moderation
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Accounting Summit Awards Ceremony 2023
Vote for the most inspiring, charismatic or innovative speakers in our app. The top three speakers on each stage will be presented with a Accounting Summit Speaker Award.
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15:45 Seamless integration and structured e-files: Welcome to your future of office organization!
Imagine how all file shelves are a thing of the past and your office is an efficient, paperless oasis. We will present how you can take full advantage of the benefits of a paperless office in your accounting department with our digital easy products, easy for SAP Solutions and structured e-files and make your digital transformation a sustainable success. With the help of the global search function (e.g. by accounts payable/debtors or any other object), the effortless filing of documents via drag & drop and location-independent use, your team will work hand in hand. Do you want to set up your accounting in a sustainable and scalable way? Do you want to use digital processes to make your company even more successful? Immerse yourself in the exciting world of the paperless future and learn first-hand how to optimize your business processes and increase your efficiency.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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16:00 Next Level Finance Automation: The Future Path to an Automated Closing Process
The primary responsibility of finance is to produce reliable and accurate financial reports. Manual tasks and outdated, fragmented processes hinder already busy finance teams from focusing on their core responsibilities. This results in opaque, error-prone, and non-scalable processes that many companies struggle with. A highly automated close process helps increase transparency and accuracy while reducing costs and risk. Are you also struggling with the above issues, then attend our masterclass and learn: - What to look for in your transformation project (Dos&Dont's). - More about best practice finance transformation journeys - Where you can identify automation potentialPresentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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16:30 How FINN conquered its AP paperwork Mountain: Resolving Invoice Bottlenecks, Reducing Errors, and Driving Team Satisfaction
In this exclusive masterclass, join Rossum and FINN as they take center stage to unveil the transformative power of AI-driven intelligent document processing. Discover firsthand how their strategic adoption of cutting-edge technology not only managed but conquered the surge in document volume, stemming from a remarkable expansion of operations within the dynamic German market. Get ready to dive deep into this success story and gain invaluable insights into the future of streamlined document management.Presentation:
Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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16:45 Accounting Summit Awards Ceremony 2023 - End of Stage
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Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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17:45 Accounting Summit Awards Ceremony 2023
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Steffi Landerer Accounting Summit Moderation
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15:45 Mass billing and XXL archive Scalable accounts receivable processes with a high degree of automation are no longer a challenge.
Highly scalable accounts receivable processes with corresponding audit-proof storage, which adapt to your company's success, have long since ceased to be a challenge. Using the case study of a leading German Internet service provider, Cronon GmbH presents its solution with which we have solved the special requirements for highly scalable processes in the customer, contract and billing process in combination with archiving in compliance with the law and a high degree of automation in daily mass business.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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16:00 The road to the first sustainability report: from the field
Many companies are currently having to deal with the conception and implementation of a sustainability report for the first time due to new regulations. How can they best meet the challenge, and what potential stumbling blocks are there to consider? Nexperia, with the support of Mazars in Germany, recently embarked on this journey and published its first sustainability report. In our masterclass, we provide insights into this process: starting with the project setup, project participants involved, conception of the report content (incl. materiality analysis), status quo of the data situation as well as implementation of measures and initiatives, through gap analyses, technology selection and technology-supported report creation, to the published sustainability report.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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16:30 Great Opportunities in Credit Management with SAP S/4Hana & Add-Ons - Leverage your potential in working capital
The tasks and challenges in credit management are constantly growing. Companies have to manage these with more and more business partners (customers, suppliers...), but with the same number of staff. How are you positioned here with SAP? Where are the gaps? What are you missing, what could be improved in order to make a significant contribution to increasing working capital with appropriately modern software. I would like to show you how you can optimize and improve your credit management in your current or future SAP environment.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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17:00 Worldwide e-invoicing based on SAP
How to integrate e-invoicing based on SAP and integrate Poland, France, Spain & Germany, among others, into an existing invoicing process with one API.Presentation:
Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation
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17:30 Accounting Summit Awards Ceremony 2023 - End of Stage
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Nona Brodersen Accounting Summit Moderation