This document discusses improving finance processes. It notes that finance teams are expensive but often spend time on transactions that could be streamlined. Regulations and expectations are increasing so finance must change. All finance processes contain waste like rekeying data and delays. The document recommends focusing processes on customers, completing work right the first time, and providing timely information for decisions. Improvement requires understanding problems and having people work as a team, with management support, to continuously improve processes. The key is to choose a process to start with, map and study it, then develop a team to remove barriers and fix problems.