BlueLight

MAY 1, 2020

Traditionally, the chief financial officer (CFO) is responsible for tracking the company’s past and present financial situation and ensuring on-time and accurate financial reporting. Today, the CFO is expected to inform strategic decisions that drive the success of the company. Source: Vena Solutions What is FP&A?

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Focus CFO

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Some business owners downplay the complexity of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and mistakenly task their accounting team with this crucial function, or hope their CPA firm can be of help. Let’s examine how an outsourced, fractional CFO can improve FP&A: Improving Data. .” – Lao Tzu.

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 7, 2024

This episode our Planning Aces emphasize the importance of leveraging one’s breadth of experience, stepping beyond traditional FP&A roles, and focusing on execution to bring significant value to organizations. This discrepancy between what was being produced and what the market wanted was critical. Read More 3.Understanding

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 8, 2023

To handle these challenges well, it's crucial to plan carefully and use efficient tools for managing finances. Budgeting software can greatly help by , automating financial tasks , making processes more efficient, and leading the business toward long-term success. Managing a small business comes with many challenges.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When these disconnected versions are later combined or compared, discrepancies can arise due to outdated information, formatting inconsistencies, or human errors during manual data entry,” said Ervina Waty , group chief financial officer at Ateria. Spreadsheet use remains a staple of many business functions. And why not?

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Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

According to Payscale.com , skills such as leadership, and financial reporting and strategic planning, won’t elevate your take-home pay much. These days, strong computer skills, as are advanced knowledge of accounting, budgeting, and finances. What makes for a sought-after chief finance professional (CFO)?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Their main focus tends to be the product, go-to-market, and building a team that can sustain revenue delivery. That’s why the role of the finance leader in understanding the financial impact of operational choices—before they’re made—is absolutely essential. Meticulous accounting sets the foundation for making good decisions.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Their main focus tends to be the product, go-to-market, and building a team that can sustain revenue delivery. That’s why the role of the finance leader in understanding the financial impact of operational choices—before they’re made—is absolutely essential. Meticulous accounting sets the foundation for making good decisions.

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CFO Leadership

AUGUST 12, 2021

Maria Duanne Andrade, Chief Financial and Strategic Officer, Solar and Energy Loan. Maria Duanne Andrade, Chief Financial and Strategic Officer, Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF ). Maria, (also known as Duanne) co-leads SELF, reporting directly to the board on strategic, operational and financial matters.

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CFO Share

MARCH 23, 2021

A rolling 12-month forecast projects financial performance over a 12-month time horizon using the “add/drop” approach to forecasting. This enables continuous planning of future performance based on actual performance. This enables continuous planning of future performance based on actual performance. Effortless Insight.

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BlueLight

JULY 30, 2020

The financial implication of these decision is critical and the CFO is the executive helping the CEO navigate these decisions. Historically, the CFO role was focused on backward looking information: ensuring on-time and accurate financial reporting. Pre Series B, it’s a part-time role to simply track past financial numbers.

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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.

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Spreadym

JULY 3, 2023

Scenario planning is a strategic management tool used to explore and prepare for the future by developing and analyzing multiple plausible future scenarios. Scenario planning helps you address this uncertainty by considering multiple scenarios with different assumptions and outcomes.

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Planful

JUNE 17, 2021

Over the years, the chief financial officer’s (CFO) role has evolved from gatekeeper to trusted advisor and business partner. But not every CFO thrives in the strategic planning side of their role. Many finance leaders confuse financial planning with strategic planning. ” Why the disconnect? .”

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2022

Relying on archaic spreadsheets to guide complex business models automatically puts your organization at a disadvantage – sacrificing time and accuracy while stunting strategic decision making. A modern FP&A solution with pre-programmed business logic and accounting rules prevents users from making such mistakes.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 11, 2023

2 With regulations continually evolving, data volumes expanding, and the need for transparency growing, finance leaders are in a strong position to drive these efforts and create strategic value for their organizations. The standards are designed to bring sustainability reporting on par with financial reporting over time.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 24, 2020

As companies scramble to adjust to this unprecedented event, pressure is mounting on FP&A teams to recalibrate their forecasts – not only through the end of 2020 but well into 2021. Three things have been missing in FP&A teams and they are likely going to be factored in moving forward,” he said. Himashi Soriano.

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CFO Leadership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But certainly it’s a good idea to share improvement plans and budgets with managers, as appropriate. WE ARE PROUD TO ALIGN WITH ORACLE NETSUITE AS A NATIONAL SPONSOR OF THE CFO LEADERSHIP COUNCIL. ART WITTMANN, EDITOR, BRAINYARD AT ORACLE NETSUITE PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF FINDINGS FROM THEIR RECENT 2021 SURVEY. Role Reversal.

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