Internal Audit, Risk, Business & Technology Consulting While growth through acquisition is generally a sign of strategic success, such events open up a number of decision points for companies. How these decisions are handled can have both financial and audit consequences, and prove to be either painful or transformative for the organization. For a large publishing company, a newly acquired line of business provided a good opportunity to implement SAP’s latest version, S/4HANA, and a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Management knew that all business lines would need to be migrated to an upgraded S/4HANA system over time. Starting with the newly acquired business and then gradually moving the rest made sense for the company. The wrinkle in this plan was time. The for

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