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Working Through Technology

FPA Insider

In their 2017 Finance Effectiveness Benchmark Report , PwC outlined 3 kinds of emerging technologies that can significantly enhance the way finance departments function. When integrated into FP&A functions, these technologies allow professionals to focus on the tasks that truly matter and deliver value. Insight tools.

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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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Everything You Wanted to Know about FP&A Best Practices

Fpanda Club

Benchmarking is an extremely powerful tool, but unfortunately, this kind of data, accumulated by consulting firms and professional associations conducting surveys and research on various adjacent topics, is not easily available or is highly fragmented. Only 25% of FP&A teams ’ time is devoted to value-added analysis.

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How to Reduce the Pain of Board Reporting

Planful

According to a recent benchmark survey by APQC, the bottom performers take 12 days or more to close the books and report their results to management. This time-savings allowed them to accelerate the delivery of board reports and shift Finance staff time to more value-added analysis. Different users have varying needs.