Comshare to offer finanical decision support seminars; to be offered in nine cities across the U.S.ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1996--Comshare, Inc.(R) (NASDAQ-NM: CSRE CSRE Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity CSRE Closed System Respirator Evaluator ), The Decision Support Company(TM), has launched a series of decision support seminars that address the major problems facing finance executives. Titled, "Gaining Business Advantage from Your Financial Data," the half-day seminars are targeted at financial executives responsible for budgeting, planning, reporting, forecasting and analysis. The seminars will be offered in Boston, Portland, Toronto, Houston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Chicago, and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. between now and the end of October. "Financial Decision Support (FDS FDS Fim-De-Semana (Portugese: weekend) FDS Federated Department Stores, Inc. FDS Fiche de Données de Sécurité (Material Safety Data Sheets) FDS Famicom Disk System FDS Faculty of Dental Surgery ) is concerned with providing information to executives within the finance function to support tactical and strategic decision making," said Michael Coveney Michael Coveney is a British theatre critic born in Mile End in East London in 1948. Educated at St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, Coveney graduated from Worcester College, Oxford. , Comshare's director of enterprise business solutions marketing. "Key to FDS are an organization's planning and reporting processes which include strategic planning, medium term planning, detailed budgeting, actual vs. budget variance reporting and forecasting. "These stages represent a continuous process with results from each stage feeding the next," continued Coveney. "What happens in many organizations, however, is that discreet systems are used for each stage. The result is a loss of integrity between systems, manual transfer of data and maintenance of multiple applications." Comshare provides a complete range of Decision Support Applications for financial executives responsible for planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting and analysis. The seminars will highlight the advantages of integrating these processes into a single system. Among the benefits are shorter closing and budgeting cycles, elimination of rekeying In cryptography, rekeying refers to the process of changing the encryption key of an ongoing communication in order to limit the amount of data encrypted with the same key. , more accurate budgets and forecasts, faster detection and response to changing business conditions, and the ability to test alternatives and monitor the results of business decisions. For more information about seminar dates and locations, contact Comshare at 1-800-922-7979. About Comshare Comshare, The Decision Support Company, develops, markets and supports complete client/server decision support applications designed to improve business analysis, planning, reporting and decision making. Comshare decision support applications result in better decisions, improved profits, and enhanced competitiveness for its more than 3,000 customers in over 40 countries worldwide. Comshare, Inc. is a Microsoft Solution Provider. For more information about Comshare products and services, call 1-800-922-7979 or see our home page on the world wide web at http://www.comshare.com -0- Comshare is a registered trademark; The Decision Support Company is a trademark of Comshare, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Comshare, Inc. Dan Jankowski, 313/769-8742 or Eiler Communications Larry T. Eiler, 313/761-3399 |
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