Setting the strategy As a nonprofit relief organization, World Vision must ensure that every dollar is used as it was intended: to transform children's lives. This responsibility of stewardship is an integral part of every decision made at World Vision. As part of that stewardship, the organization is determined to optimize resources and distribute them where they are needed most. To achieve these goals, World Vision knew that it must manage its complex set of financial data in the most efficient way. In the early 1990s, Larry Johnson, senior finance director for global operations & reporting, searched over a two-year period for software to help World Vision be accountable and meet the organization’s diverse needs—applications that worked on PCs and that did multicurrency accounting. “But

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