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Plan for anything, be ready for everything

Future CFO

The result is undesired is that teams are often unable to deliver needed plans, budgets, forecasts, reports and value-added analysis when asked. The result can have financial and/or operational repercussions to the business, made even more challenging during times of crisis like the present.

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Top 3 Reasons EPM Is Moving to the Cloud

Planful

Accelerate planning, consolidation, and reporting to deliver results faster and shift more time to value-added analysis. EPM software platforms have evolved from mainframe accounting systems to Windows-based client/server systems, then to internet-enabled, web-browser-based applications. Why is EPM Moving to the Cloud?

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Beyond Budgeting – Are You Ready?

Planful

Since then, the Beyond Budgeting concept has steadily gained momentum, with increasing recognition in financial publications, such as CFO Magazine and the Journal of Accountancy. Most organizations spend 80% of their time collecting and validating data and 20% doing value-added analysis. The mix should be reversed.

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Attracting and Retaining Top Finance Talent

Planful

The unemployment rate in Accounting & Finance is lower than the national rate, suggesting that there is a dearth of qualified individuals in the market. The CFO needs to balance solicitation for suggestions and new ideas with ample training and education on existing procedures. Finding Qualified Hiring Candidates for Finance.

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Moving Financial Consolidation and Reporting to the Cloud – Webinar Recap

Planful

If the latter is the case, Planful recently held a webinar focused on how you can automate and accelerate the financial close, consolidation, and reporting process and free up more Finance time for value-added analysis. Does this pique your interest? Financial Close, Consolidation, and Reporting – Who Cares?

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How to Reduce the Pain of Board Reporting

Planful

The advantage for companies with a fast close process is that they can spend more time on value-added analysis and decision making – and deliver information faster to both internal and external stakeholders. Consolidating their results following multiple accounting guidelines. Different users have varying needs.

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Everything You Wanted to Know about FP&A Best Practices

Fpanda Club

APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® Performance Assessment in Planning and Management Accounting 3. APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® Performance Assessment in Planning and Management Accounting 4. Only 25% of FP&A teams ’ time is devoted to value-added analysis. CFO Innovation, Oct 12, 2016 5.