Cengage Learning (CL) is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning, and research solutions for the academic, professional, and library markets worldwide. The company's products and services are designed to foster academic excellence and professional development, increase student engagement, improve learning outcomes, and deliver authoritative information to people whenever and wherever they need it. Through the company's unique position within both the library and academic markets, Cengage Learning is providing integrated learning solutions that bridge from the library to the classroom. Cengage Learning's brands include Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Gale, Heinle, South-Western, and Wadsworth, among others. Cengage Learning is headquartered in Stamford, CT, USA. Cengage Learning conducts its capital appropriation process once a year and aligns the appropriations with strategic goals and a product road map. The company then considers each need against the guidelines and targets that the company has set. Because capital is limited, the company spends a significant amount of time prioritizing each initiative based on its strategic importance. prioritization, and allocation of capital to existing and new projects." a Chris Buzzard, Senior Director, Finance, seconded everything that Sanford and Dikran said and added, "Strictly looking at numbers and criteria will generally tell you if an investment can be undertaken, but as business partners, our job is often to ensure that an investment should be undertaken. A healthy dose of business judgment and strategic priority is required in matters of cash flow estimation and risk adjustment to add color to an otherwise black-and-white evaluation. To quote a mentor of mine from school, 'It's often better to be generally right than exactly wrong." Financial management is beyond numbers; it has more to do with what we do with the numbers and what we make of it. Computers can generate numbers, but the insights and the decisions rely on people in finance! The finance team is an integral part of this decision-making process. The above passage describes an interview in which three members of Cengage Learning's finance team share their thoughts on why people in finance matter. Read the passage and then complete the following statements. The finance team works with the executive and product groups help the leadership team make the right decisions. providing decision support and analytical assistance to The people in finance evaluate projects objectively to ensure that the company is making intelligent investment decisions based on Financial management is beyond numbers; it has more to do with what we do with the numbers and what we make of it. 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Read the passage and then complete the following statements. providing decision support and analytical assistance to The finance team works with the executive and product groups investment needs jam make the right decisions. strategic priorities evaluate projects objectively to ensure that the company is making intelligent investment decisions based on Cengage Learning (CL) is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning, and research solutions for the academic, professional, and library markets worldwide. The company's products and services are designed to foster academic excellence and professional development, increase student engagement, improve learning outcomes, and deliver authoritative information to people whenever and wherever they need it. Through the company's unique position within both the library and academic markets, Cengage Learning is providing integrated learning solutions that bridge from the library to the classroom. Cengage Learning's brands include Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Gale, Heinle, South-Western, and Wadsworth, among others. Cengage Learning is headquartered in Stamford, CT, USA. Cengage Learning conducts its capital appropriation process once a year and aligns the appropriations with strategic goals and a product road map. The company then considers each need against the guidelines and targets that the company has set. Because capital is limited, the company spends a significant amount of time prioritizing each initiative based on its strategic importance. prioritization, and allocation of capital to existing and new projects." a Chris Buzzard, Senior Director, Finance, seconded everything that Sanford and Dikran said and added, "Strictly looking at numbers and criteria will generally tell you if an investment can be undertaken, but as business partners, our job is often to ensure that an investment should be undertaken. A healthy dose of business judgment and strategic priority is required in matters of cash flow estimation and risk adjustment to add color to an otherwise black-and-white evaluation. To quote a mentor of mine from school, 'It's often better to be generally right than exactly wrong." Financial management is beyond numbers; it has more to do with what we do with the numbers and what we make of it. Computers can generate numbers, but the insights and the decisions rely on people in finance! The finance team is an integral part of this decision-making process. The above passage describes an interview in which three members of Cengage Learning's finance team share their thoughts on why people in finance matter. Read the passage and then complete the following statements. The finance team works with the executive and product groups help the leadership team make the right decisions. providing decision support and analytical assistance to The people in finance evaluate projects objectively to ensure that the company is making intelligent investment decisions based on Financial management is beyond numbers; it has more to do with what we do with the numbers and what we make of it. Computers can generate numbers, but the insights and the decisions rely on like prime lenders separately The finance team is an integral part of this decision-making pro like business partners describes an interview in which three members of Cengage earning's finance team share their thoughts on why people in passage and then complete the following statements. like angel investors The finance team works with the executive and product groups providing decision support and analytical assistance to help the leadership team make the right decisions. The people in finance evaluate projects objectively to ensure that the company is making intelligent investment decisions based on The finance team is an integral part of this decision-making process. The above passage describes an interview in which three members of Cengage Learning's finance team share their thoughts on why people in finance matter. Read the passage and then complete the following statements. providing decision support and analytical assistance to The finance team works with the executive and product groups investment needs jam make the right decisions. strategic priorities evaluate projects objectively to ensure that the company is making intelligent investment decisions based on