CASE STUDY Mersen The Challenge The Objectives In late 2010, following an internal study, MERSEN realised that consolidated reporting was far from prominent among management’s operational concerns. The existing software no longer met the needs of the Group’s managers or financial offi- cers: there were frequent changes in the scope of consolidation and analyses of previous performance and forecasts were needed. These different issues or analyses were therefore handled through parallel reporting, which entailed replicated data entry and multiple rec- onciliations after the fact. In the end, the overall quality of financial disclosures and the cycle time required to produce them were deemed inadequate or ill adapted. The Corporate Accounting and Management Control team decided to meet th

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