How the 2020 crisis is shaping the 2021 finance agenda Joe Pickard February 4, 2021 (Last Updated February 4th, 2021 14:24) Share Article Unprecedented business disruption forced organisations to delay many 2020 plans and operate in a reactive mode. Respondents to the 2021 Key Issues Study expect stability to remain elusive, write Nilly Essaides, Gilles Bonelli, Tom Willman and Jim O’Connor at The Hackett Group
The crisis and its fallout will continue to shape finance priorities in 2021, and beyond other local challenges. For example, between the UK and the EU, Brexit is increasing the complexity and cost of trading, often leading to the re-engineering of supply chains, tax and settlement issues, with a consequence on intercompany trading. Together these European challenges, are causing new demands for broader business partnering in Finance, for example, in profitability management across products, services, customers and channels dimensions.