CIT, a leading global commercial finance company, provides a comprehensive set of financial products and services to clients in more than 50 countries around the world. A leader in middle market financing, CIT provides financial solutions for more than half of the Fortune 1000.

Our diversified business platform serves more than one million clients in more than 30 industries. We serve a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, transportation, retailing, wholesaling, healthcare, communications, technology, energy, real estate, financial sponsor and various service-related industries. Each business has industry alignment and focuses on specific sectors, products and markets with portfolios diversified by client and geography.

Founded in 1908, our growth has been fueled by an unyielding focus on meeting our client’s financial needs and is balanced by our deep credit and risk management culture. The CIT brand platform, Capital Redefined, articulates our value proposition of providing our customers with the relationship, intellectual and financial capital to yield infinite possibilities. CIT will celebrate its Centennial beginning February 11, 2008.

Through its Global Commercial Card & Services group, American Express provides the Corporate Card, Corporate Purchasing Solutions, and other expense management services to mid-sized companies and large corporations worldwide. In the US, it is the leading issuer of commercial cards, serving more than 60% of the Fortune 1,000, as well as tens of thousands of mid-sized companies. American Express issues local-currency commercial cards in 40 countries, and International Dollar Corporate Cards in an additional 100 countries. For more information, please go to www.americanexpress.com/corporate.

The American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel, financial and network services company founded in 1850. It is a leader in charge and credit cards, Travelers Cheques, travel and international banking.

Brainware's invoice and order automation solutions help the world's leading companies streamline their Accounting operations and improve profits. By automating the routine tasks of capturing and validating invoice and order information, Brainware increases the speed at which this information is entered into business systems, and reduces the errors associated with manual data entry and forms processing techniques.

Reducing the time required to process each invoice or order helps improve enterprise value by helping your organization avoid late payment fees, leverage early payment discounts, avoid costly rework of inaccurate payments or shipments, better manage your cash flows, and a host of other benefits enabled by improved vendor and customer satisfaction.

Our solutions utilize a template-free, document-agnostic approach that automatically and accurately extracts, verifies, and exports critical invoice information into any ERP or document management system. Set up is done quickly and ongoing system development costs are virtually eliminated with our "self-learning" technology. Our unique and industry leading line item extraction capabilities means that even the most complex, high-volume A/P and A/R operations can achieve substantial productivity improvement.

IBM is a globally integrated innovation company, serving the needs of enterprises and institutions worldwide. The company seeks to be a partner in its clients’ success by enabling their own capacity to innovate, so that they may differentiate themselves for competitive advantage in a globalized economy. Drawing upon resources from across IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions, software and hardware technologies and financing. IBM's Global Business Services provides clients with deep business process and industry expertise, ranging across key business issues and deep into 17 industries in virtually every country and every culture worldwide. IBM has helped clients unlock value in areas such as HR, sales, marketing, finance, accounting, business strategy, supply chain, logistics and procurement. As the role of finance continues to evolve, IBM helps CFOs and finance executives address new challenges and drive enterprise-wide profit improvement and shareholder value. For more information visit: www.ibm.com or contact us at 1-800-IBM-4YOU.

Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency, IDA Ireland is responsible for the attraction and development of foreign investment in Ireland. Today, Ireland is home to companies such as Intel, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Palm, Pfizer, Merrill Lynch and Wyeth to name just a few.

Ireland continues to win international investments from global corporations because it is seen as a business location where the workforce, as well as being highly qualified, has a unique capacity to improve, to innovate and to initiate new ideas, new processes and new ways of working that can make business more dynamic, more efficient and ultimately more profitable.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

PensionSpan is Barclays Global Investor's defined benefit management platform. It is a cost-effective, integrated platform that provides strategic advice, a broad spectrum of investment solutions, institutional-quality asset management, the benefits of economies of scale, and coordinated trustee and benefit payment services. The cornerstone of this program is our commitment to act as a fiduciary for all plan investments.
As one of the world's largest asset managers, BGI manages investments for roughly two-thirds of the world's 100 largest pension plans. Total Performance Management -- our comprehensive investment philosophy that seeks to maximize return, control risk, and lower cost -- is at the heart of everything we do.
Plan sponsors can feel confident employing a management platform that combines the investment performance of one of the world's most successful asset managers with the security of doing business with one of the world's leading financial institutions.

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of management consulting for businesses and governments for more than 90 years. Providing consulting services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps clients solve their toughest problems, working by their side to help them achieve their missions. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.

With 19,000 employees on six continents, the firm generates annual sales of $4 billion. Booz Allen has been recognized as a consultant and an employer of choice. In 2007, for the third consecutive year, Fortune magazine named Booz Allen one of “The 100 Best Companies to Work For,” and for the past eight years, Working Mother has ranked the firm among its “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers.”

To learn more about the firm, visit the Booz Allen Web site at www.boozallen.com. To learn more about the best ideas in business, visit www.strategy-business.com., the Web site for strategy+business, a quarterly journal sponsored by Booz Allen.

George Group is now a part of Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Now, with the deep skills and delivery capabilities of the George Group in Lean Six Sigma, Fast Innovation, and Conquering Complexity, Accenture is uniquely able to work with clients to develop breakthrough insights that unify strategy and execution, create lasting shareholder value and enable high performance.

Kronos Incorporated empowers organizations around the world to effectively manage their workforce. At Kronos, we are experts who are solely focused on delivering software and services that enable organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide. We recognize that an organization's ability to hire the best people and manage them most effectively is their greatest competitive advantage. Our unique and innovative combination of talent management, workforce management, and human resources solutions help organizations effectively staff, develop, deploy, track, and reward their workforce. Kronos serves customers in more than 60 countries through its network of offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. Widely recognized as a market and thought leader in managing the workforce, Kronos has unrivaled reach with more than 30 million people using a Kronos solution every day. Learn more about Kronos at www.kronos.com.

As a leading global provider of human resource consulting, outsourcing and investment services, Mercer serves more than 25,000 clients globally. These include not only most of the world’s leading companies and governments, but also many rapidly growing organizations, including those in some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. We are truly a worldwide organization with 60 percent of our clients located in Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America.

Mercer also has a strong market presence serving mid-size companies. Such clients benefit from the expertise we have acquired not only working with the largest multinationals, but also from our experience with many smaller but rapidly growing companies seeking best practices in order to gain competitive advantage.

Mercer has an unmatched global network, which ensures integrated, worldwide solutions for clients who wish to establish global policies and procedures while allowing for the flexibility to accommodate local cultural, legal and regulatory requirements. Our locally based professionals are also available to address country-specific issues and opportunities.

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery ModelTM , recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 104,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $4.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2007.

Tatum is the largest Executive Services firm in the United States. With nearly 1,000 executive partners and professionals across 37 offices, Tatum provides immediate resources to help our clients achieve results.

Tatum Executive is known for rapidly providing highly experienced executives to assist companies facing a CFO, CIO or Controller vacancy. We also provide temporary leadership to help CFOs complete strategic projects or tackle a project outside the scope of internal skill sets, such as an IPO or a restructuring.

Tatum Consulting provides assistance with mission-critical projects such as restructurings, acquisitions, restatements SOX compliance, IT governance and controls, system selections and strategic planning.

Tatum is uniquely equipped to immediately mobilize and integrate the right leadership resources to assess, forecast, plan and oversee key business initiatives. Since 1993 Tatum has built a reputation for high-velocity, objective leadership that helps our clients create more value.^TM www.TatumLLC.com

ARCADIS is an international company providing consultancy, engineering and management services in infrastructure, environment and facilities, to enhance mobility, sustainability and quality of life. ARCADIS develops, designs, implements, maintains and operates projects for companies and governments. With more than 12,000 employees and over USD 1 billion in gross revenue, the company has an extensive international network that is supported by strong local market positions.

Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of spend management solutions to help companies of any size realize rapid and sustainable bottom line results. Recognized by analysts as the undisputed leader in multiple categories, Ariba’s world-class solutions are designed to provide technology and business process improvements in flexible and scalable on-demand, licensed, hosted packaging and as a managed service to match the implementation and budget needs of all companies. Ariba also helps organizations overcome business obstacles to success by offering solutions that address speed, sustainability, coverage, and flexibility. Ariba can be contacted in the U.S. at 1.650.390.1000 or at www.ariba.com.

With $132.6 billion in assets, Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T Corporation is the nation's 14th largest financial holding company. It operates nearly 1,500 financial centers in 11 states and Washington, D.C. More information about the company is available at www.BBT.com.

BB&T's innovative product SupplyChain360, combines BB&T's international banking, commercial finance and payment services functions, and will connect buyers and suppliers around the world. BB&T's clients will be able to finance their supply chain operations in step with the physical production and transportation of goods, reducing both cost and risk. In addition, they'll have complete on-demand views of their financial supply chain from purchase order delivery through invoice settlement.

CIGNA Corporation subsidiaries serve millions of people worldwide through medical benefits plans, dental coverage, behavioral health coverage, pharmacy benefits, vision benefits, and group life, accident and disability insurance. Recognized as a leading health and related benefits company, our involvement with customers goes deeper than handling insurance claims. Employers look to us for the expertise, services and tools that will help them improve the well-being of their employees, while lowering costs. And our wide range of programs and services help our members make more informed decisions and live healthier, more secure lives.

CresaPartners is an international corporate real estate advisory firm that exclusively represents tenants and specializes in the delivery of fully integrated real estate services, including: Transaction Management, Project Management, Relocation Planning and Management, Strategic Planning, Site Selection and Incentives, Subleases and Dispositions, Lease Administration, Capital Markets, and Facilities Consulting. With more than 40 North American offices, CresaPartners is one of the largest pure tenant representation firms in the U.S. and Canada. Through a partnership with Atisreal international real estate group, CresaPartners is a member of one of the leading real estate organizations in the world, covering 35 countries. For more information, visit www.cresapartners.com.

Crowe Group LLP, the parent company of Crowe Chizek and Company LLC (www.crowechizek.com), is one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the United States. Under its core purpose of “Building Value with Values®,” Crowe assists clients in reaching their goals through services ranging from assurance and financial advisory to performance, risk, and tax consulting. Crowe professionals provide thought leadership to public and private companies in the financial services, healthcare, government, private equity-sponsored, inventory-based, and not-for-profit industry sectors, among others. With 23 offices and more than 2,300 personnel, Crowe has been recognized by a number of organizations as one of the country’s best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as the leading independent member of Horwath International.

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms have any liability for each other’s acts or omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names “Deloitte,” “Deloitte & Touche,” “Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,” or other related names. Services are provided by the member firms or their subsidiaries or affiliates and not by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein.

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. In the United States, services are provided by the subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP, and their subsidiaries), and not by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.

Eloda Corporation (TSX-V : ELA) is an independent third party provider of innovative advertising monitoring and reporting applications. Using its proprietary AdDNA™ technology, Eloda is the first company to offer a new generation of capture-index-verify applications that allow for occurrence proof-of-performance without the traditional need for pre-encoding.

Eloda Protocol™, the company’s television advertising discrepancy management solution, helps North American advertisers and their agencies to identify discrepancies and recover undelivered TV advertising. Eloda Protocol facilitates the exposure of potential internal control inefficiencies with the existing media buying process and provides a Sarbanes-Oxley compliance platform. Thanks to Eloda Protocol, advertisers and their agencies can get full delivery of their advertising campaigns, as contracted for, and ascertain that what was bought was actually delivered.

Founded in 2000, Eloda is headquartered in Montreal, with offices in New York and Toronto. For more information, visit www.eloda.com.

Expedia Corporate Travel delivers on-demand travel management solutions for your business by backing our industry-leading online technologies with experienced corporate travel professionals. Expedia Corporate Travel is the #1 on-demand full service travel agency based on the total number of customers booking through the same technology whether online or agent-assisted.

Expense Reduction Analysts is an international consultancy that specializes in helping businesses find extra profit by reducing non-core operating costs. Working on a no-savings, no fee basis, consultants review more than 30 cost categories including courier, freight, office supplies, temporary labor and telecommunications. Our specialists are able to find an average 20% savings for clients worldwide. We are specialized—we leverage industry expertise with in-house benchmark data to help find savings. We are completely independent, so we work strictly on behalf of our client with no compensation from suppliers. We are implementation focused—we’re not finished until our recommendations are fully implemented and the cost savings we identify are attained. We achieve our results without compromising the quality of service you receive from your suppliers. Every dollar saved adds value to your business; what would you do with your extra profit?

Exterieur Resources Worldwide Inc. is a business process outsourcing (“BPO”) firm that specializes in providing offshore finance and accounting, legal and human resources services to companies with headquarters and/or operations in North America (i.e., the U.S.A., Canada and Mexico), the Caribbean Area, Australia and Europe.

Exterieur Resources Worldwide Inc. enables customers to:

• Focus on core competencies that gain competitive advantages by performing more effectively and efficiently through the outsourcing of non-judgmental and non-critical business processes, without compromising security, integrity and control;
• Gain substantial financial benefits generated by powerful economies of scale attained from leveraging standardized business processes tied to leading-edge technology and less-costly offshore labor resources;
• Continuously improve their business processes, adding value for customers and their stakeholders; and
• Strategically capitalize on a global workforce, sourcing qualified and technically trained talent where it can be found (such as in the Philippines) while the labor supply in advanced countries like the U.S. and Canada is steadily declining due to the aging of the baby boomer generation, systemic deficiencies that have substantially reduced the number of accounting and other professional graduates, and national security-related immigration impediments in the post-9/11 world.

PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a leading provider of pricing and revenue optimization software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution and price optimization. By using PROS' software products, companies gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify pricing-based profit leaks, optimize their pricing decision making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS' software products implement advanced pricing science which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. PROS’ high performance software architecture supports real-time high volume transaction processing and allows PROS to handle the processing and database requirements of the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with 100s of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS also provides a range of services that include analyzing a company's current pricing processes and implementing software products to improve pricing performance. PROS has implemented over 200 solutions across a range of industries in more than 40 countries. Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 300 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and 20 with Ph.D.s.

Ryan is the leading tax services firm in North America, with the largest transaction tax practice in the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides a comprehensive range of state, local, federal, and international tax advisory and consulting services on a multi-jurisdictional basis, including audit defense, tax recovery, credits and incentives, tax process improvement and automation, tax appeals, and strategic planning. With a multi-disciplinary team of more than 725 professionals and associates, Ryan serves many of the world’s most prominent Fortune 1000 companies.

Sebesta Blomberg is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota with offices nationwide and ranks as an ENR Top 500 Engineering Firm. Sebesta Blomberg provides engineering, construction support, commissioning, facility support, energy management, environmental, LEED® certification, central plant and renewable energy services to private and public sector markets.

SOLOMON TG is a Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Performance Management (BPM) strategic partner for enabling business focus, insight, and results. Our solutions have enabled enterprise, mid-market, and government customers achieve better organizational performance, productivity, and predictability. Practice areas include a full-range of BI and BPM professional services that address discovery, strategy, outsourcing, implementation, support, technology transfer, and maintenance services.

Founded in 2002, SOLOMON TG is committed to satisfying our client’s BI and BPM needs through innovative project initiatives, outsourcing, and ongoing support. We employ a qualified staff of experienced business process and IT consultants to serve clients in a number of industries including: financial services, health care, insurance, manufacturing and distribution, retail, telecommunications, transportation, and energy. We maintain service provider and reseller partnerships with Business Objects, Cognos and Oracle.

We want to be your business intelligence and performance management center of excellence partner!

Stratactics is a training and consulting company that teaches business and leadership acumen. We partner with our clients to provide customized, cutting edge learning to improve strategic thinking, decision-making, and performance at every level of an organization.

Every manager and employee is a decision maker who needs business acumen skills and abilities to contribute to the company's success. Our customized programs teach these skills and abilities in an easy, engaging, and interactive way that helps people understand how their day-to-day decisions and behaviors support the company’s strategic objectives.

We believe that having people with this ability and knowledge is essential to developing human capital and building bench strength at every company. Most companies have clear strategic objectives and metrics, but have not made these concepts simple, and meaningful enough to get people to learn them and change their behavior. That is our expertise.

The Bank of New York Mellon Treasury Services combines innovative cash management, trade finance, liquidity management and global payments capabilities to create best-in-breed solutions in markets around the globe. Leveraging its operational excellence, exceptional client service and product leadership and expertise, The Bank of New York Mellon Treasury Services can help you design and implement a comprehensive solution to optimize cash flow, ensure adequate liquidity and manage risk.

Thomson Financial: Empowering Informed & Timely Strategic Decisions
Partner with Thomson to reach superior business decisions quickly and with confidence. Thomson Financial’s suite of Corporate Finance solutions couples institutional-quality content with proprietary analytics to provide accurate and unique market insight to empower your strategic decision-making. The solutions are scalable and can be easily configured to meet your specific needs, enabling you to:
Lower borrowing costs with a detailed understanding of credit spreads
Perform in-depth benchmarking analysis to understand how your performance and capital structure compare to your peers.
Research M&A activity by region or industry to learn which firms advised on a deal, what premium was paid, how the deal was financed, and more.
Monitor global market developments and effectively manage financial exposures to lower funding costs and optimize returns.

Recognized by leading industry analysts as the best-in-class solution, TRIRIGA® provides the industry’s most extensive functionality with the only complete, fully integrated IWMS product suite, with common tools and database across operational applications for real estate, facilities, projects and operations. TRIRIGA Workplace Performance Management^TM extends these unique capabilities with analytics fully integrated inside the IWMS suite. This provides the ability to access accurate, up-to-date information upon which to base decisions. With TRIRIGA IWMS, which includes operations management applications and analytical applications, organizations can significantly improve operational and financial performance and return on workplace assets. TRIRIGA’s extensible technology provides customers with unmatched business agility, to align and rapidly re-align objectives and processes to maximize operational and financial performance. With an outstanding network of consultants, partners, industry experts, and market-leading customers, TRIRIGA delivers exceptional service and proven best practices. A well-established organization, TRIRIGA delivers customer success!

Workday is delivering the first on-demand alternative to ERP, with a new generation of solutions designed to meet the needs of today's dynamic and global businesses. Built on a completely new model, Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Financials use the most modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level of agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability. For more information about Workday, please visit www.workday.com

Adaptive Planning makes it easy for midsized companies and departments to move beyond spreadsheets and automate their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. With instant online access, rapid configuration, low subscriptions, and a free entry-level version, Adaptive Planning is easy: easy to test drive, easy to get started, easy to customize, and easy to afford.

Find out how easy it is -- test drive it today! Express Edition, the entry-level budgeting software, is instantaneously available -- for free -- from www.adaptiveplanning.com/express. Enterprise Edition, the full-featured solution with budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and dashboards, can be trialed for free online at www.adaptiveplanning.com/trial.

Named “2007 Mid-Market Vendor of the Year” by BPM Partners for innovative technology and stellar customer satisfaction, Adaptive Planning is used by thousands of companies in over 80 countries worldwide.

If you are ready to move beyond Excel and dramatically improve your budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, the choice is easy—Adaptive Planning.

AFMS specializes in helping companies negotiate world class, market competitive contracts with your small parcel and freight forwarder carriers. We can show you how to save money, obtain better discounts, improve service levels and find hidden areas of opportunity where cost savings are overlooked.

AFMS draws its insight, knowledge and information from a staff comprised largely of former vice presidents and senior sales and pricing managers from FedEx, UPS, DHL, the USPS and other major carriers of the industry.

AFMS Logistics Management Group, a recognized leader in small package contract negotiations has developed web-based transportation management tools specializing in small package shipment visibility, contract compliance and management reporting. Many organizations provide tools for heavy freight management but AFMS is the leader in filling this niche for small parcel shippers.

Agresso (www.agresso.com/usa) is a $350 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) company, listed in the Netherlands as Unit 4 Agresso (Dutch Stock Exchange EURONEXT-U4AGR) and one of the top five providers of ERP solutions for professional services and public sector organizations. Agresso offers a uniquely integrated data/ process/ delivery architecture designed specifically for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC) ™.

Agresso is known as "The ERP Market's Definition of Agility" as it allows an unlimited amount of ongoing, post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and intervention that nets billions of dollars in revenue to the market leaders. Over 2,700 companies and organizations in 100 countries deploy Agresso Business World for both operational support and strategic management.

The company’s role-based, Web Services and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enabled solutions include: Financial Management, Human Resources and Payroll, Procurement Management, Project Costing and Billing, Reporting and Analytics, Business Process Automation, Field Services and Asset Maintenance, and CRM.
More information can be found at www.agresso.com or by calling 1.888.AGRESSO (247-3776).

Financial Training From The People Who Know Finance Professionals

AICPA Learning provides affordable and effective development tools and training programs for finance and accounting professionals. Among our products, we offer:

Competency Assessment Tool (CAT)
This online tool allows you to compare the overall skills of your professional staff against the highest and most valued in their specific area so you can identify where growth is needed and what new skills can improve their performance.

AICPA On-Site Training
With over 100 courses for professionals in business and industry, our on-site training programs offer experienced and expert instructors, easy-to-follow manuals, convenient schedules, flexible pricing options and a variety of course lengths.

Firm Access & Customized CPExpress
This online learning library provides hundreds of hours of instruction that can be accessed 24/7. These options allow you to assign an Access Control Administrator (ACA) who will be able to monitor the training progress of each staff member.

Ajilon Finance Solutions provides senior-level finance and operations professionals to companies on a project or interim basis. Whether you need staff augmentation services or a team of specialists to manage a system implementation or audit engagement, our network of offices can economically solve your business challenges, regardless of location.

To learn more about how Ajilon Finance Solutions can deliver top expertise to your organization, and how our team of professionals has the high-level experience you need, contact us at 1.866 GO AJILON or visit www.ajilonfs.com.

Balance Consulting LLC, founded in 1989, is the nationally recognized leader in tax reporting compliance education and consulting on specialized compliance issues. Balance offers a number of services to companies throughout the country, helping them to better understand Form 1099 reporting.

Balance seminars and webinars are highly praised for incorporating real-life examples and translating regulatory language into plain English to help seminar attendees make sense of a complicated subject. Balance offers a number of other services as well, from custom in-house seminars, Manchester Form 1099 Reporting Software, Statement Solutions services, advisory services, and specialized compliance publications.

Balance Consulting is also co-sponsor of the annual Tax Information Reporting and AP Leadership Conference. This year the conference, which serves the 1099 reporting and accounts payable communities will be held July 13-18th at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Washington, DC.

BMO ePurchasing Solutions is a leading North American provider of advanced commercial card solutions that integrate customized end-to-end electronic procurement and travel and expense management to public and private sector organizations. BMO’s client-centric approach utilizes leading technology to customize solutions that directly contribute to an organization’s financial performance. One of the top 10 commercial card issuers in North America, BMO e-purchasing provides over 87,000 companies a single-source option for their commercial card programs.

BMO Financial Group is one of the largest financial services providers in North America. With average assets of more than $320 billion, BMO provides a broad range of corporate, investment banking, wealth management and retail banking products and solutions.

BNA Tax & Accounting provides tax planning and compliance resources covering virtually every aspect of federal, state, and international taxation as well as financial accounting. The Portfolio analysis, written by the world’s leading tax and accounting authorities, is respected for the clarity and depth of its insights and guidance. These resources are supported by a staff of editors, tax attorneys and CPAs who continually enhance and update the resources. These resources are used with confidence throughout the tax and accounting communities.

Boardroom Software, Inc. delivers innovative technology solutions to executive, legal, and financial professionals to better manage their organizations’ corporate governance, and streamline complex and time-consuming business processes. Equity Enterprise® 2007, Boardroom Software’s flagship product, is an advanced software solution that enables both public and private companies to more easily and accurately care for enterprise management of equity administration, share-based compensation plans, and related valuation and expensing of equity. Further, Equity Enterprise allows companies to manage their entire capital structure, including class conversions, and produce retroactive and real-time capitalization tables. This powerful network-based enterprise system simplifies the inherent complexities of FAS 123(R) disclosure requirements, strengthens internal controls, and provides powerful audit functionality and individual user security settings.

Centage Corporation provides business performance management (BPM) solutions to mid-size organizations to solve their budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting challenges. Centage’s premier solution, Budget Maestro®, is an all-in-one solution for budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and financial and management reporting. Budget Maestro is a single application that ties together the budgeting and reporting of expenses, revenue, personnel and assets in one spot to help CFOs see the impact of their assumptions on the whole organization.

Budget Maestro takes you beyond the limitations of Excel by providing a powerful forecasting, what-if, and dashboard reporting tool that generates synchronized Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows in real time, at your command.

Thousands of mid-size companies, like Auntie Anne’s, DiCarlo Distributors and Blue Cross Blue Shield, have chosen Budget Maestro to significantly reduce their budget cycle time and to generate accurate, timely financial reports. We invite you to take a closer look too. For more information or a product demonstration, please visit at booth #410 or www.centage.com or contact us at 800.366.5111.

CFO.com is the comprehensive online resource center for senior finance executives. Our mission at CFO.com is a simple one: to help our readers do their jobs better. CFO.com offers daily stories geared specifically for finance executives and coverage includes original reporting on new accounting standards, recent capital-raisings, risk management, and professional career development. The site also features our new Business Intelligence Center with a White Paper Library spanning topics from Accounting to Compliance & Governance to Technology. We also offer monthly webcasts, a full set of related directories, special reports, and buyer's guides, and we are launching an interactive and completely unique Careers Center in late March. In addition, CFO.com provides complete online editions of CFO and CFOEurope magazines, as well as selected coverage from CFO Asia .

In the past ten years healthcare costs have increased at more than 4 times the rate of inflation. For over a decade, Chatham Consulting Group has been working with middle market companies, private equity firms and universities to combat these rising costs.

Chatham has devised a program called Bending the Trend that significantly contains the healthcare costs of your company and provides you with tools that deliver critical data in making strategic decisions.
Our program can lead to low single digit increases in healthcare costs on a sustainable basis.

Visit our booth to discuss how we can help your company.

Control Solutions International is a leading global provider of independent internal audit, compliance, risk management and technology services. For more than 15 years, we have been the trusted advisor to more than 500 public, private, nonprofit and government clients around the world, supporting their audit committees, senior management and internal audit functions.

Our diverse offerings include financial, operational and IT audit; continuous auditing and data analytics; corporate governance; internal audit startup; fraud and forensic services; financial reporting compliance (including SOX, OMB A-123, J-SOX, MI 52-109), enterprise risk management; risk assessments (technology, fraud, tax); and a wide range of technology services (application assessments, enterprise system services, corporate identity theft/privacy, threat/vulnerability, architecture and infrastructure, incident response and forensics, disaster recovery and business continuity).

Through extensive training, knowledgeable people, industry experience, and innovative tools and methodologies, we provide flexible world-class solutions tailored to your specific business and technology audit needs. Experience, the Difference™.

CyberShift’s award-winning, 100% Web-based Workforce Management solutions, built upon a Service-Oriented Architecture, include enterprise-level time and attendance, advanced scheduling, expense management, self-service functions and analytics. CyberShift’s suite helps organizations optimize and manage the deployment of their people, reduce costs and improve processes across the organization.

CyberShift’s Workforce Management solutions provide a flexible framework to adapt to an organization’s business requirements, integrate with existing systems and optimize employee productivity by allowing them to access and respond to information in real-time—all from a unified workforce interface. CyberShift’s Necho Expense Travel & Expense Management solutions automate the processing and facilitate the management of employee business expenses, the second-largest controllable expense after labor costs.

CyberShift offers advanced technology, multi-faceted functionality, flexible deployment options (in-house or ASP) and extensive expertise in the fields of workforce and expense management.

Data Impact’s (DI) solutions allow our customers to offer robust web based Electronic Invoice Presentment, Payment and document management services to their clients in a highly secure, cost effective environment. Data Impact’s suite of services includes: bill presentment; dispute management; electronic payments (via ACH and credit card); email notifications; robust receivables data for automated reconciliation; document management; reporting and analytics.

The DI product suite quickly and accurately converts expensive, labor-intensive processes from paper to electronic and eliminates inefficiencies while providing complete cash flow visibility. Data Impact’s customers are able to reduce costs, increase productivity, accelerate cash flow and improve their clients’ satisfaction by leveraging DI’s Electronic Invoicing and Payment solutions.

Dietrich & Associates, Inc. is one of the Nation’s leading Annuity brokerage/consulting firms specializing in Guaranteed Funding Solutions for:

• Pension plan terminations and liability carve-outs
• Retiree health obligations (FAS 106 and GASB 45)
• Employees leaving DC or DB plans
• Employers adding a DB annuity type option to DC plans
• Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans

Over the past 26 years, Dietrich and Associates, Inc. has become the dominant pension Annuity placement specialist in the country, successfully handling significantly more Group Annuity transactions annually than any other firm.

DietrichAnnuity is the Nation’s foremost comparative, real-time online Immediate Annuity quote engine. Visit www.dietrichassociates.com for more information.

Ecora Software provides Configuration Audit and Analytics Solutions to customers worldwide, ensuring their IT infrastructures remain operationally effective, secure and compliant. As a crucial element integrated into the overall Business Service Management (BSM) strategy, Ecora is the market leader in transforming enterprise-wide configuration data into clear, actionable reports for regulatory compliance and enabling IT best practices. The Company's flagship solution, Auditor Professional™, provides immediate value with its agentless architecture matched with rich report templates and pre-defined policies providing the foundation for effective change and configuration management Ecora Software ensures that you are prepared for any IT audit before the auditor arrives, taking the cost and complexity out of compliance audits and enabling IT best practices for more than 1100 worldwide customers across a wide range of industries, including many of the Fortune 1000.

Equity Administration Solutions, Inc. (EASi) provides CFO-focused accounting, tax and administration software for managing equity compensation plans. EASi is a web-based, real-time collaboration solution for FAS 123R reporting, stock plan recordkeeping and Employee Stock Purchase Plan administration. It gives plan administrators, finance personnel, auditors, transfer agents and brokers controlled access to date stamped information 24 hours a day. The EASi product was developed jointly with a Fortune 10 and Big Four firm as a compliant, auditable accounting tool that also handles equity administration. Twelve major award types including CSARs/SSARS and Performance Shares are tracked and expensed, with full dilution, FAS109 and A240 reporting detail ready for 10K and proxy statement disclosure. EASi reduces finance and auditing costs and SEC risk. EASi features robust reporting, mobility management and recordkeeping. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, EASi is a privately held, rapidly growing company serving more than 275,000 participants at more than 200 companies.

Euler Hermes ACI is North America’s oldest and largest provider of trade credit insurance and accounts receivable management solutions and is the US subsidiary of the Euler Hermes Group. Headquartered in Owings Mills, MD, the company protects and insures more than $150 billion in US trade transactions annually. Additionally, Euler Hermes ACI provides a suite of receivables management services that includes commercial third party collections, receivables management outsourcing, and international collections. The Euler Hermes Group is the worldwide leader in credit insurance and one of the leaders in the areas of bonding, guarantees and collections. With 5,800 employees in 49 countries, Euler Hermes offers a complete range of services for the management of B-to-B trade receivables. Euler Hermes is a subsidiary of AGF and a member of the Allianz group. The group and its principal credit insurance subsidiaries are rated AA- by Standard & Poor’s.

EVA Dimensions was formed in March, 2006, when it acquired Stern Stewart’s EVA brand and related technologies in value-based analytics, benchmark data, valuation modeling, and investment research and management.

In the investing world, EVA Dimensions is the source of PRVit (“performance-risk-value investment technology”) — an EVA-based stock rating system currently ranked #1 on 638 stocks on the Bloomberg’s prestigious Annual Return Rank ― and through its money management arm is using the PRVit model to incubate a 150/50 hedge fund.

For corporate clients, Dimensions offers the new Financial Radar Screen (FRS) software system to automate and standardize the measurement and analysis of economic profit and value-based decisions. Dimensions is currently sponsoring the “First Mover” program, a structured opportunity for select executives to apply FRS to their company under the personal tutelage of Stern Stewart co-founder and EVA Dimensions’ CEO, Bennett Stewart. To attend a webcast on EVA and FRS, contact info@evadimensions.com.

Highpoint Enterprise™ by Favored Solutions is the next generation Governance, Risk and Compliance Solutions. HighPoint Enterprise™ offers a comprehensive approach to addressing governance and compliance by strategically managing business and information risks and internal controls. Corporate enterprises can harness the power of the full suite or leverage the robust functionality of single module. Our value to your business includes:
• Effective management of your internal audit programs and processes;
• Enterprise risk management, to include risk assessment and risk analytics;
• Internal controls validation and management;
• Alignment of IT GRC strategies with enterprise GRC strategies;
• Enhanced policies and procedures management and enforcement;
• Workflow powered solution with executive dashboard and reporting functionality.
For more information, visit us on the web: www.favoredsolutions.net

FMI is a bona fide expert in the industry and has been for over 37 years. They provide local, national and global solutions to companies worldwide. FMI reduces costs and streamlines operations within these companies by developing and implementing a customize freight program. They offer solutions to all aspects of a freight program which include, LTL, TL, small-parcel, international and bulk tanker. FMI also provides the management of bill payment, audit, claims and dispatch. With offices in CA, NJ and Dusseldorf, Germany, FMI is globally equipped to anticipate and quickly react to the needs of each individual client. Most new clients start realizing a 20% savings within 60 days without spending a dime. FMI is unique in the fact that they are strictly paid by carrier commissions and not their clients. This process is started by a free cost analysis of 2 weeks worth of freight bills. Then you decide.

Hoover Projects Incorporated is a national real estate, project management and consulting firm specializing in turn-key ownership and leasehold solutions for mission critical corporate facility projects since 1989.