A cooperative study to identify the best financial reporting processes at media companies that looked into how newspapers manage their financial reporting processes including insight into process alternatives such as:

• Effectively closing books
  
• Report formats
  
• Systems options
  
• Skill sets
  
• Work practices
  
• Shareholder/regulatory reports
  
• Satisfying customers of financial information
  
• Special reports and analysis
  

We researched areas such as:

• Closing Cycle Issues
  A review of what newspapers do to close their books on a timely and efficient basis.
  
• Report Formats
  A review of the types of reports produced in financial and circulation.
  
• Systems in Reporting
  An understanding of how newspapers collect financial and circulation data in automated systems Æ what systems work the best.
• Special Reports and Analyzes
  Understanding how newspapers support the business processes by providing value added support to their operations.
• Corporate
  We looked at how organizations comply with the complex requirements placed on them by their corporate parents.

Participants were:

Involved in the design of the study, so that we are sure we are asking the questions that are important to your newspaper;

Invited to attend site visits to best practices newspapers, so that you can hear first hand about how they have created high performance information systems organizations; and

Invited to a readout/discussion session, so that questions about study results were answered.

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