Corporate Financial Information Management Research

1. The background and meaning of this researchWe were coming through a new transformation, which names the Information Age when the 21st century came. Taking a view of the American New Economy that began in 1990s and the development of software R & D industry in India, we could believe that there exists a discontinuous increase of economy. Now there is a firm belief that follow material, asset, labor and capital, information had become the fifth productivity essential factor. China and the other countries take it as an important development strategy and devote in exploring and exploiting the information resources.Nowadays, globalization and informatization are two huge powers that change the environment of competition outside and operation model, management system inside. It displays specifically as follows: the range of competition changes from"regional competition"to"global competition"; the main body of competition changes from"single enterprise competition"to"supply chain competition"; the strategy of competition changes from"product competition"to"customer competition"; the advantage of competition changes from"scale competition"to"speed competition"; and the foundation of competition changes from"labor, fund, material competition"to"information competition". All of these ask the corporate finance accomplish the information task correspondently.Undoubtedly, transformation depends on the support of the modern information technology (IT). However, the examples of failure are as...