The Finance Department provides the business with financial, commercial and strategic support. We work with each department in the business on budgeting and forecasting revenues and costs and then tracking how we perform against these targets by producing management information and analysis and helping teams with cost control. We support all commercial decisions such as acquiring the rights of the books we publish or negotiating our contractual terms with our customers and suppliers. We make sure the monthly and annual financial accounts are in line with statutory requirements, working together with the Group Finance teams in Basingstoke, Germany and the US and with external auditors. We also work closely with the finance and commercial teams in Pan Mac India and Pan Mac South Africa, providing them with support where needed