This revised edition of The Controller’s Function is a complete operations reference manual for the corporate controller. Within these pages the reader will find a comprehensive discussion of how to manage all major aspects of the controller’s job, including strategic and annual planning, financial reporting, and managing all aspects of the accounting department, as well as peripheral issues such as the fast close, electronic data interchange, best practices, a wide array of controls to help deal with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, software selection and implementation, and financial analysis—and much, much more.