There are various reasons companies regardless of size may consider the transition towards a paperless, or a reduction in paper used in an office. Technology has reduced the number of paper organizations uses in their operations. The storage of electronic documents allows for easy access to important documents, invoices, and records instead of manually searching for information, requesting information from the central records department if such information is located offsite. With the trend towards mobile computing, distributed offices, and home offices accessing electronic information that is part of routine business operations is important..

Finance Business Partners were mainly seen in larger organizations, their roles demanded more than just number crunching month end results from their finance professionals. The transformation of finance professionals as a key business partner can be seen in smaller and medium-sized organizations where finance is playing more of a value-added proactive approach. The traditional month-end finance function that is part of every organization for internal, as well as external reporting. Such reporting was based on after period variance analysis with little input with regard to analytics for future direction, thus more of a passive role..