Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Accurate cash flow forecasting is essential. But if knowing your cash position is paramount, how do you forecast your cash position in the months and years ahead, and the impact of your investments or revenues on that cash position? In today’s post, we’ll go over five reasons behind the importance of accurate cash flow forecasting.

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Jedox Finance

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this blog post you get the chance to explore the intersection between the planning and technology of your organization and will see how an EPM Tech Refresh that is coming with a modern solution can help you on your digital transformation journey. Alarm bells: Software End-of-Support and End-of-Life. Migrate or refresh?

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Jedox Finance

MARCH 7, 2023

Tapping into the Jedox platform and its endless integration capabilities, Jedox created a ChatGPT integration model to show how finance, sales, HR, marketing, supply chain, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) teams can experiment with generative AI in their integrated business planning (IBP) processes.

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BlueLight

MAY 1, 2020

The goal of this blog is to explain what is FP&A and why it is important. The FP&A function helps all groups within the company make better decisions by taking historical data, forecasting future performance, and running sensitivity analyses. Source: Vena Solutions What is FP&A? Let’s get into the details.

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Future CFO

JULY 30, 2020

The separate worlds of sales and finance usually must be manually merged from many different data sources. Forecasts are unreliable and quickly become outdated due to rapid changes and complexity of markets. The blog post is a translated excerpt from an article that first appeared in German Controlling & Management Review 1.

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

With the increasing popularity of software as a service (SaaS) products, new SaaS companies are popping up every day. A CFO will keep track of spending patterns, finding redundant expenditures eating into your bottom line such as unused software licenses or costly processes. Budget Forecasting With SaaS CFO Metrics.

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Jedox Finance

APRIL 30, 2020

In our first post in this blog series, we discussed the benefits of automating Sales Performance Management (SPM) and the related challenges. Sales Compensation Management is the most critical business function within SPM. Paying sales teams accurately is the primary objective of any sales compensation software.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Amazon, however, is not the only retailer using virtual reality for furniture and room furnishing sales. In a blog post at the time, Walmart Senior Director of the Academies Andy Trainor said that the technology makes learning into an experience. The expected number of AR/VR headset users by 2022 is forecasted to be 100 million.

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Planful

AUGUST 12, 2019

Cash is used for things like: Paying expenses – the things that are necessary for the successful daily operation of the business like employee salaries, sales and marketing expenses, supplies, and inventory. Cash keeps the business running. Investing in new capital assets to grow the business. Expanding into new markets.

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 1, 2023

The hosts also discuss the role of finance in enabling sales, the challenges faced by sales teams, and the importance of financial discipline and visibility in a company’s financials, regardless of market conditions. One, yeah, definitely finance helping with sales and sales data, in sales compensation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some sites are seeing more active buyers and higher gross merchandise sales (GMS) as consumers look to buy all sorts of items from merchants and creators. The company noted in a blog post that it is always looking at popular checkout options that are resonating with buyers in order to reach more consumers and expand its business.

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Michigan CFO

JULY 8, 2022

Sure there are periods when they know they’re getting more sales or fewer sales, but they don’t really know what’s happening “under the hood.”. Financial Forecasting. Financial forecasting is an often overlooked aspect of business management. Financial forecasting is an often overlooked aspect of business management.

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Jedox Finance

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The last blog post from our guest authors at smartPM.solutions was about S&OP maturity and the classification of your current S&OP situation according to the 5-stage Gartner S&OP Maturity Model. If you have not yet determined your S&OP maturity stage, you can do so in our last blog post.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The technology for Go is built off of a complex array cameras and software that collaborate to “see” what a consumer takes from the shelf, and correctly charge them for those items they actually exit the store with. The company has also posted blog post it described how it works with authorities. billion over the anticipated $3.1

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

trillion; on security-related hardware, software and services at 10 percent a year from a 2018 base of $91.4 They’re also using software and cryptographic techniques and permissioned-based networks to digitize and move assets around the world faster and in a secure, compliant manner. billion growing to $120.7 trillion in 2021.

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Jedox Finance

JANUARY 7, 2021

Sales and operations planning, or S&OP, is essentially an integrated business planning process, though some consider the latter more holistic and inclusive. In this blog post, we answer questions including what is S&OP, what it is used for and how it provides value to organizations. . The origins of S&OP.

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Jedox Finance

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What does maximum maturity mean in the 5-step Gartner Sales & Operations Model and how do you get there? In our second blog post on this topic, which will follow shortly, we will demonstrate directly how the software can be implemented using various examples. “Why did we decide to introduce a CPM system now?

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Jedox Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2021

From overarching sales targets to more specific sub-goals and milestones, how should they be defined? In this blog post, we look at sales targets and goal setting from different perspectives and discuss what to consider when defining them. Sales targets should always be planned bottom-up and top-down. Target market?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

I don’t own a Tesla, and have only driven someone else’s Tesla, but as readers of this blog know, I valued Tesla for the first time in 2014, and I keep returning to the scene of the crime. In my November 2021 valuation, I had chosen a t arget operating margin of 16% , higher than the then-prevailing margin of 12.06%.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In a previous blog , we defined strategic finance as “a way to turn what’s traditionally been a siloed set of processes and functions into a unified, integrated view of your financial performance that takes the entire organization’s perspective into consideration.”. In short, you want a strategic finance person.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In a previous blog , we defined strategic finance as “a way to turn what’s traditionally been a siloed set of processes and functions into a unified, integrated view of your financial performance that takes the entire organization’s perspective into consideration.”. In short, you want a strategic finance person.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

I don't own a Tesla, and have only driven someone else's Tesla, but as readers of this blog know, I valued Tesla for the first time in 2014, and I keep returning to the scene of the crime. I drive a 2010 Honda Civic, a perfectly serviceable vehicle that is never going to get oohs and ahas from onlookers, but I feel no urge to value Honda.

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Bramasol

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As followers of this blog already know, DSE has been a major disruptive force across many different B2C and B2B markets over the past year and is expected to continue evolving rapidly throughout 2022. This is another subject that we've been tracking closely and have addressed in a recent blog on Carbon Accounting Compliance.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The conversation delves into the evolving landscape of the telecom industry, the impact of technology on business models, and the necessity for CFOs to embrace change and innovation, particularly in leveraging AI for forecasting and strategic planning. We post blog articles on trending issues within the CFO profession.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

And while most of the robotics news this week was concerned with the present or the fairly immediate future, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also did some forecasting in the longer term, predicting that fully-functional robot hands would be in existence in the next decade. “I Since its inception, Store No.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I used to sell units in an onsite sales condo new development on the Upper East Side. And if you actually stood back and looked at a chart of what was happening, prices were going straight up and sales were going straight down. And you could see it because sales actually lead price direction by a year in many cases.

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