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The cost/implementation of SAP is so big that the decision to use it can only be signed off at C-Level.

Any company who is looking at SAP is likely doing business in the US - Sarbanes-Oxley means CFO and CEO have to personally sign off on the financial accounts and are criminally liable (am sure it's the same in other countries).

SAP at it's core is all about financial control. SAP sell SAP to CEOs and CFOs by telling them it will provide strict financial controls to their company and avoid them personally going to jail / paying huge fines. It's an easy sell

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This is probably even worth it. Once your company has anything more than a few hundred employees, financial accountability itself at any level is a serious problem enough to warrant some kind of financial control.

If you didn't have it a lot of money disappears without a trace.