Centage

APRIL 12, 2022

Our goal is to establish benchmarks, identify trends, and support on-going development of products and services that best fulfill our customers’ needs. While over 60 percent wanted to focus on budgeting and forecasting, another 52 percent intended to invest resources into growth, acquisition, and reorganization.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Budgeting Forecasting 52

Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Three: Benchmark Industry Profitability Ratios Your profit margin might look weak to you, but is it? Benchmark your industry before looking at your profitability so you know what to aim for. The end result is that you get the data you need faster for more accurate forecasts all without overburdening staff and increasing budgets.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 52

Collectiv

JUNE 13, 2023

Data analysis is a treasure trove for non-profits. Solid processes around nonprofit data give you critical information to highlight unique aspects of your organization, boost morale, increase credibility, enhance transparency, and build community awareness to support your mission.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Leverage Budgeting Analyzing Data 52

CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Scenario analysis may also leverage AI to model various scenarios to better understand potential consequences of different decisions and market changes. Generative AI a subset of AI that uses learning patterns and structures from existing data to generate original content, including text and images. over at least the next decade.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 115

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Compliance Forecasting 115

Centage

JANUARY 4, 2022

It offers a critical benchmark for comparison enabling stakeholders to see progress or areas of weakness within a given timeframe. For SMBs, evaluating KPIs and performing KPI analytics are where the meaningful details can emerge. KPIs enable you to track the most important metrics for your organization.

Financial Reporting 94

Financial Reporting Budgeting Accounts Payable Benchmarking 94

Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

Controllers: Companies don’t have access to historical data to benchmark their responses and performance against or help model future scenarios. As the pandemic continues to unfold, finance teams are heavily reliant on Controllers to gather and analyse snapshot data to manage bottom-line projections.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance CFO Problem Solving 52

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

He also suggests comparing your organisation to your peers in other markets, identify the right set of benchmarks for your business. “If 36% agree that there is a need to increase their finance headcount in finance to focus more on valuable activities such as data analysis and forecasting.

Financial Data 52

Financial Data Finance Benchmarking CFO 52

Future CFO

MAY 26, 2020

Asked what the priorities of the financial planning and analysis teams were in 2018, three-quarters of CFOs surveyed by FutureCFO between March and April 2020 picked planning, budgeting and forecasting as a key function of the department.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Treasury Education 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. They’re using, you know, sort of our methodology around data analysis, and making sure we’re keeping our kids up to a level.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 56

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 56