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Here you can find an overview of white papers and e-books from LucaNet on the topics of accounting, business intelligence, controlling, and corporate finance. Choose one of the categories to narrow down your search quickly. All of our white papers and e-books can be downloaded as PDFs.

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4 Tips for Meaningful Financial Planning

With meaningful financial planning, you actively steer your business where you want it to go - without the risk of being swept away. Read more about the 4 tips on meaningful financial planning in our e-book.

The fast track to reliable consolidated financial statements

It's time to optimize the preparation of your consolidated financial statements! Read our e-book to find out what finance managers should bear in mind during the consolidation process.

Simplify Your Reporting

What are the success factors for creating a reliable, rapid and transparent reporting system? Find out the four crucial pieces of advice now in this white paper.

Break Free From Excel Chaos

What are the seven reasons why financial professionals should stop working with Excel files? We shed light on the issue and show how professional FPM software is a far better alternative.

Faster Close

How can the Group Accountant prepare accurate consolidated financial statements efficiently and quickly? All of the answers can be found in our white paper.

Ready for IFRS 16?

What is the objective of IFRS 16, the new accounting standard for leases, what changes does it entail for affected companies and which solutions are available for a successful implementation? Our white paper has all the answers.

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Transparency in Financial Controlling Made Easy

How can financial controllers bring transparency to their financial data? We show how an expert solution can pave the way to data transparency, based on real-life challenges. Find out more in our white paper.

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How to Improve Intercompany Reconciliation and Bring Order to the Data Jungle

The veracity of a set of consolidated financial statements depends on valid and organised data. But the process of collecting the data with MS Excel, inadequate accounting systems and substandard intercompany reconciliation processes appears to be an uphill battle, with nobody coming out on top. What better alternatives are there?

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International Accounting - Must-Know Differences Between IFRS and US GAAP

Multi-GAAP accounting and consolidation always come with multiple challenges for accountants. This white paper gives you a brief overview of the must-know differences and similarities between US GAAP and IFRS, and provides you with some hints and tips on preparing multi-GAAP financial statements.

More Clarity About Your Financial Data

Our current white paper explains how financial performance management software provides CFOs and controllers with a solution for the challenges they face in their finance departments.

Efficient Financial Controlling for CFOs

What specific challenges are presented by the changes to the CFO's role in an enterprise? And how can a CFO use a professional corporate performance management software solution to tackle the challenges of the current market efficiently? This white paper will provide you with valuable tips for your future practice.

How CFOs Can Build a Better Financial Consolidation Process

When it comes to the financial consolidation process, speed and accuracy are essential. But many Finance teams still struggle with it because they are using manual processes. Find out how automation can help to improve your financial close process.

The Spreadsheet Dilemma

What obstacles large and small does Microsoft Excel present in financial controlling and the creation of consolidated financial statements? And what should a quality CPM solution offer to address these issues? To find out, check out this white paper.

The 5 success factors for your financial planning

Which factors are the keys to a successful, efficient planning process? What should the people responsible for finances observe in order to drive their planning and controlling activities towards the future? To find out, read our white paper.

Financial controlling‘s top 3 trends

Are you ready for the future of controlling? In our white paper, we present the top three trends in controlling.

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IFRS 16 – the new lease accounting standard

The white paper gives you an overview of the essential modifications and effects resulting from the new leases standard for lessees.

Practical Topic Target Costing: Fundamentals and Successful Implementation

The white paper summarizes all of the important fundamentals on the issue of target costing and uses examples to clarify its specific implementation in practice.

3 x 3 BI - The Future of Management Reporting

What will management reporting be like in the future? The experts at Lünendonk take a close, step-by-step look at this topic and deliver a range of theories.

Focused on: Impairment of Assets according to IAS 36

How do you approach the impairment of assets according to IAS 36? What's behind the term cash generating units and how can the impairment of goodwill be tested?

Risk Controlling with the Help of Indicator Systems

Which areas of the annual financial statements need to be considered in more detail to make a company's risk control more efficient? In our white paper, we present you with the most important key performance indicators for an optimal analysis.

What is Corporate Performance Management, actually?

What, exactly, does CPM mean? And how does it compare to BI solutions? We cast some light on this topic and explain the fundamentals for you.

Key Figure Cockpit and Dashboard. Example: Balanced Scorecard

Reacting flexibly to new challenges and pursuing long-term corporate goals all while keeping an eye on the flood of data – companies need well thought-out controlling instruments to achieve this.