Case Study
Sixty Seconds with Graff Diamonds...
kyriba.com • 1-855-KYRIBA-0 Graff Diamonds has been expanding its network of overseas stores since the first one opened in Monaco in 2000. It now has 45 of its own stores across Europe, Asia, the United States and South Africa with 6 local finance teams whose core responsibility was originally to validate fund clearance for sales. Accounting was always done on a cash rather than accrual basis with inconsistent management accounts, too many banks and multiple currency accounts for every entity across 15 different countries. With a new senior finance team in place in 2013, Graff had treasury-based aspirations to achieve solid monthly accrual accounting, better cash management and stronger controls and visibility with less reliance on spreadsheets. When he first came aboard in 2