Lime Light

MARCH 13, 2025

The True Cost of Spreadsheet Errors Spreadsheets have long been the foundation of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for businesses. They are used for everything from budgeting and forecasting to tax reporting and financial close processes.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

E78 Partners

MARCH 3, 2025

Investors have a heightened appetite for businesses with proven financial fundamentals and clear paths to profitability. Despite these favorable conditions, successful IPOs require meticulous preparation, robust financial reporting, and a governance framework that instills investor confidence. The Renaissance IPO Index has risen by 4.9%

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

MAY 20, 2025

If you're a small to mid-sized business using QuickBooks Online (QBO), chances are you've experienced its ease of use for accountingbut maybe not so much for budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting. You're not alone.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

With global economies bracing for uncertainty in 2025 , financial teams are under pressure to adapt faster than ever. Political shifts, rising inflation, and unpredictable market trends are forcing businesses to rethink their financial planning strategies. What is Prophix? Who Its Meant For?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

MAY 13, 2025

Sage Intacct is a leading cloud-based financial management software built for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). It handles core accounting tasksaccounts payable/accounts receivable, cash flow, general ledgerwith ease, and comes equipped with dashboards and real-time reporting to streamline daily operations.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Strategic Partners

MAY 29, 2025

Why CFOs Must Act Now: Turning Tariff Disruption into Strategic Opportunity Insights from Acclarity Accredited to FP&A Subject Matter Expert: Marcus Fisher Global markets are entering a period of structural disruption—and finance leaders are on the front lines. Yet forward-looking leaders aren’t standing still—they’re evolving.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis. The emerging FP&A practice steps out of the shadow of other finance functions becoming a standalone entity which involves its own mission, goals, organization, processes, tools and skills.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Bramasol

APRIL 28, 2022

This episode focuses on how DSE business models present new challenges with regard to Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) processes, which require enhanced agility, scalability and end-to-end integration to handle DSE's inherently dynamic requirements. How is FP&A different from traditional accounting?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Fpanda Club

MARCH 1, 2021

The finance function now plays a crucial role in many organizations supporting and driving effective business decisions, and this is exactly the responsibility of FP&A standing at the crossroads of finance, strategy and technology to leverage data and generate insights. APQC, AFP Next level of FP&A study, 2019 2. Sources: 1.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

As change continues to add uncertainty to the Healthcare sector finance leaders remain tasked with effectively analyzing, monitoring and predicting the financial performance of your organization. Today, it’s a fast-paced business world. Accelerate your budgeting cycles and minimize the risk of data errors.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Fpanda Club

APRIL 11, 2021

Many FP&A professionals have faced the misunderstanding of the role of the FP&A function and its core activities in the company. This article explores the most common myths surrounding the financial planning and analysis function, its key activities and outputs which many FP&A stakeholders believe in.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Jedox Finance

JUNE 26, 2019

We are pleased to welcome an expert in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Mr. Anders Liu-Lindberg, as a guest to the Jedox blog. In a large scale survey by a global firm, CFOs named Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) a top priority to transform and derive more value.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Future CFO

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Among these are the changes that were faced in the financial planning and analysis function. Data in the cloud also aided Vena Energy’s FP&A team in analysing data remotely. Chew believes this technology contributed significantly to the success of their FP&A operations.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Jedox Finance

MARCH 17, 2022

Although it is nearly impossible to predict the future, forecasting future market development and customer needs is an essential component of corporate strategy and planning. Predictive forecasting can help guide a company in growing more profitably and respond quickly to changes. What is Predictive Forecasting?

Forecasting

Lime Light

JUNE 12, 2023

Having an accurate and dynamic forecast creates a confident finance function in any business. However, when your skilled FP&A team members spend hours gathering and formatting static spreadsheets, that’s less time being spent on analyzing results, developing what-if-scenarios, and modeling strategic plans and forecasts.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Finance Weekly

JULY 19, 2022

FP&A software assists CFOs, finance leaders, and FP&A experts in ensuring the financial health of their organization by tracking and analyzing current outcomes and forecasting future performance. What is FP&A? Why do you need FP&A? The top 10 best FP&A Software Tools Available.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) teams play a crucial role in companies by performing budgeting, forecasting, and analysis that support major corporate decisions of the CFO, CEO, and the Board of Directors. How things have changed for the FP&A teams.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

JANUARY 18, 2022

While spreadsheets have long reigned supreme as the foundation of budgeting and forecasting for many organizations, the shortcomings of this legacy, siloed tool have become too hard to ignore. Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process. How can we plan for an uncertain economy?

Budgeting

Centage

JUNE 12, 2023

As change continues to add uncertainty to businesses across industries, finance leaders are tasked with effectively analyzing, monitoring and predicting the financial performance of their organizations with a new level of granularity. Today, it’s a fast-paced business world. That’s a lot of moving parts.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

JUNE 28, 2023

When it comes to automation, what’s particularly beneficial is the way technology can automate how financial data flows through models and forecasts, freeing financial teams from the manual labor of attempting to create forecasts via spreadsheets. Accurate measurements also allow businesses to engage in scenario modeling.

Forecasting

Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But times have changed – which is why financial forecasting is more important than your annual budget. More than half (57%) are producing P&L forecasts more often than monthly. Basing projections off data coming from various sources reduces leadership’s confidence in your analysis.

Forecasting

Spreadym

JUNE 27, 2023

What is Financial Planning and Analysis or FP&A? FP&A is a process used by organizations to develop and manage their financial plans and make informed decisions based on financial analysis. The primary objectives of FP&A. The primary objectives of FP&A.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Value of Stress Testing Your Financial Plan. As we approach the end of the fiscal year and begin a new one, business leaders have an overriding concern: How accurate are the assumptions we made when we created our plan? All plans, to a certain extent, are based on assumptions. Scenario Planning and Goal Alignment.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

APRIL 6, 2022

Every business has a set of interconnected levers, commonly referred to as business drivers, that affect the operational expenses and financial results. The key is to have a keen understanding of your business drivers, and build your financial plan around them. There are three types of financial scenario planning: .

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

JANUARY 31, 2022

Understanding the financial health of your organization as it stands today and measuring the strength of your cash position is critical. Cash flow forecasting provides that much needed insight and is the most effective way to start future-proofing your business for the year ahead. Transform how you budget, forecast, analyze and report.

Cash Flow Forecasting

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It went to note that FP&A and reporting teams have been stretched as the demand for rapid and effective business insight from finance has proved critical for many organisations which have been placed under acute stress. He listed: Having to collaborate remotely to implement new accounting and regulatory standards (e.g.,

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 30, 2022

Why are FP&A software tools essential for small businesses? FP&A software tools are increasingly important for businesses of all sizes. Historically, FP&A teams primarily existed as a separate department, mostly among large and established companies. But all of that has changed. , But all of that has changed. ,

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Between a volatile stock market, high interest rates, supply chain issues, inflation, and a possible recession, having a solid financial planning process in place is an important piece of sustaining your business through challenging times. Today’s business leaders are facing unprecedented uncertainty. Did manufacturing costs increase?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Fpanda Club

APRIL 18, 2022

Marketing teams, being among FP&A’s counterparties, are usually considered to be the most creative people in the company. FP&A team’s internal customers expect finance professionals to be more interactive and be able to communicate information and insights in the most efficient way.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The start of a new year is always a time for planning. As a FP&A professional, all eyes are on you to help plan the year ahead, step-by-careful-step, with enough lead time to avoid pitfalls and seize unexpected opportunities. For instance, 70% of SMBs have created scenario planning to prepare for the future.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

MARCH 14, 2023

The ongoing economic uncertainty continues to pose a serious challenge for CEOs and financial leaders. If companies want to succeed, they need to craft their personnel planning with care, ensuring their choices hold up to close scrutiny from upper management and investors.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Building and managing an effective budget and plan can be daunting no matter what industry, but financial planning for nonprofits can be particularly difficult. Today’s financial professionals cannot be shackled by the disparate, static and error prone tools of a pre-pandemic world. increase in charitable giving in 2022.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Your business can use historical and recent business performance with the recurrent business cycle and seasonal trends to predict your organization’s financial performance in various scenarios. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

APRIL 28, 2022

Back in 2019, Centage made waves when it announced the availability of Planning Maestro , the first-ever FP&A platform designed specifically for the mid-size market. Up until the release of Planning Maestro, only enterprise-sized companies could afford the expense of automated and intelligent cloud-based FP&A technologies.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

However, one of the most important planning tools for a business of any size is cash flow forecasting – and it’s especially important in times of uncertainty. Knowing the timing, amount and predictability of future cash flows with cash flow forecasting should be an essential component of the budgeting and planning process.

Cash Flow Forecasting

Centage

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In light of the current volatility, with a probable recession just around the corner, it’s more important than ever that companies take steps to protect their financial futures, and that means utilizing data to its best advantage. Key Financial Reports to Run. The Importance of Automated Financial Reporting.

Financial Reporting

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A study by the University of Baltimore and Excel-based FP&A company, , DataRails , lays out the full economic costs of businesses sticking with manually prepared financial reports. billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. .

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)