I’ve pasted a sample Move the Needle report on Furniture Brands and their competitors (Ethan Allen, Kimball International, Basset Furniture, Herman Miller) below which demonstrates what moving the needle in some key areas by just a couple of percentage points could mean to Furniture Brands.

Highlights from the report include:

• Every percentage point improvement in revenue growth will result increase of = $0.4 million in operating income
• Every 1% reduction in CoGS will result increase of = $13.4 million in operating income
• Every 1% reduction in SG&A will result increase of = $3.0 million in operating income
• Every one day reduction in DII will result in = $3.7 million in freed up working capital
• Every one day reduction in DSO will result in = $4.4 million in freed up working capital

If you’d like to request a Move the Needle report on your company, please contact me at sean.anderson@sap.com.

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In the report, Aberdeen’s BI Research Analyst Michael Lock details how best-in-class SMB’s are already realizing five actionable benefits from their wider use and adoption of business intelligence.

Highlights include:

• 99 percent of best-in-class companies deliver BI to the workforce in a self-service, non IT-assisted capacity, compared with only 6 percent of “laggard” SMBs.
• Best-in-class companies achieved a 4 percent year-after-year reduction in the cost-per-user of BI applications compared with a 7.4 percent decrease for “laggards.”
• Best-in-class companies drove an average 29 percent year-after-year growth in operating profit, more than five times the increase of all other SMBs.
• Best-in-class companies were able to deploy their BI applications in an average 14 days compared with 241 days for “laggard” SMBs.
  Best-in-class companies achieved an average 27 percent year-after-year increase in organic revenue compared with a 17 percent decrease for “laggard” SMBs.

You can view the entire embedded white paper below. Alternatively, if you prefer to download a PDF copy of the white paper to your desktop, please click on the link below to download the PDF file from SlideShare.

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• What XBRL Is
• How XBRL Works
• SEC Requirements and Timelines for XBRL Reporting
• Other U.S. Financial Reporting Initiatives
• XBRL Initiatives byNon-U.S. Institutions

You can view the entire embedded white paper below. Alternatively, if you prefer to download a PDF copy of the white paper to your desktop, please click on the link below to download the PDF file from SlideShare.

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