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The Business Case for Hiring Transitioning Military Veterans

CFO Leadership

For transitioning veterans, a foundational understanding of Finance and Accounting is a gap that must be closed. Chamberlain helps veterans address this crucial technical skill through financial modeling certifications. Most veterans’ Excel knowledge is limited to pivot tables and V-lookups.

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Budget vs Actuals: The Key to Measuring Business Performance  

Centage

Revenue Variances You always want to analyze the differences in your sales forecasting and what the revenue ended up being. Favorable variances may indicate your company had more sales than you expected or sold your products or services at higher prices. As you’re looking at your budget variance analysis, focus on the following types.

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Change Management: The Modern CFO’s Blueprint 

CFO Talks

Identifying Strategic Priorities The process begins with a thorough analysis of the current financial landscape and an evaluation of emerging technologies, like AI, that can significantly enhance operational efficiencies.

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What is Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)?

Spreadym

By providing financial insights and analysis, they assist in evaluating investment opportunities, assessing the financial impact of strategic initiatives, and developing long-term financial plans. They develop financial models that simulate various scenarios and assess the outcomes on key financial metrics.

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How Technology Will Change FP&A Forever

Jedox Finance

These are often not “out of the box” solutions and will require us to spend time learning new skills in process automation, analytics and financial modeling. There is little argument that some of the leaders in cloud accounting tools are Xero and Intuits QuickBooks Online. Financial Modeling. Crystal ball.

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New SAP AI Initiatives Will Enhance Order-to-Cash to Compliance Processes

Bramasol

Some of the specific use cases for order-to-cash to compliance include: Product breakdown analysis that unifies the sales, finance, and revenue recognition aspects of the process. to drive financial models. Options for quickly simulating multiple models for comparative analysis and decision-making.

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3 Perspectives on Good Board Meetings

BlueLight

These could be VP of sales, product, engineering, commercial, etc. It allows the board members to get a feel for who the executive team is and these executives will feel more accountable. One great way to leverage observers is for domain expertise to drive strategic discussions based on their knowledge of the market or technology.