CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The CFO role is multi-faceted and includes everything from financial planning and analysis to business budgeting, financial decision-making, and risk management. Because much of an advisor’s job revolves around talking to clients and seeking new investment opportunities, excellent communication skills are essential in this role.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They create and maintain financial records, prepare financial reports, and oversee the organization’s budget. This background helps them provide oversight for and manage all forecasts, budgets, and investments for the organization. Today, technology is at the center of most businesses—and nonprofits are no exception.

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The Finance Weekly

MAY 5, 2024

When it comes to sales planning, it's all about creating a flexible strategy that your sales team can rely on to hit those sales goals within a set time frame. This plan covers everything from activities and target markets to budget, resources, and market positioning. What is Revenue Planning?

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Spreadym

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Spreadym offers a wide range of analysis tools, like plan vs. actual analysis, financial consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and a variety of stored versions of a document. Oracle Hyperion Planning: Oracle's CPM software is known for its robust financial planning and budgeting capabilities.

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Fpanda Club

MARCH 28, 2021

Recent technological advancements and constant changes in the business environment enable the finance function in general and FP&A teams in particular to adopt new ways of work, new practices, new tools to meet the needs of their internal and external customers.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 19, 2024

By distilling these goals into a concise list and communicating them consistently—whether in formal presentations or casual discussions—the CFO ensures everyone understands and aligns with the finance department’s direction. This might involve enhancing digital finance capabilities or adopting sustainable business practices.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 22, 2024

Investing in Data Technology Data technology, such as data management software, makes implementing and benefiting from a data strategy easier than ever. Consider working with knowledgeable data and financial teams, such as The Charity CFO, to help create your data plan.

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The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A solid picture of finances helps with strategic planning, identifying new fundraising opportunities, and evaluating program effectiveness. This requires deliberate financial planning, budgeting, and bookkeeping that may be impossible for someone without experience in the nonprofit sector to understand.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

CPM involves a greater emphasis on improving communication and business strategies within a company. CPM software includes budgeting, forecasting and planning functions, as well as graphical scorecards and dashboards to deliver and to display corporate information. CPM is a way to ensure business strategies get executed.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

We emphasized the importance of communication, setting priorities, and the initial avoidance of hasty decisions. This transformation is driven by several factors, including rapid technological advancements, globalization, and an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The Southeast Asian country’s national tax office announced it will impose a 10 percent value-added tax (VAT) on foreign global technology companies as the nation looks for ways to defray the costs of battling the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported. The country’s total budget for 2020 is $177.6

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2024

Finance teams often get asked to do more with less, which makes it important that you adopt the right FP&A tools to amplify your capabilities and create more time for strategic planning. Stronger interdepartmental communication and collaboration is a good benchmark to set as a best practice for this year.

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Spreadym

JUNE 15, 2023

Driver-based planning is a strategic planning approach that focuses on identifying and prioritizing key drivers or factors that have a significant impact on the performance and success of a business. It involves analyzing and understanding these drivers to develop effective plans and make informed decisions.

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VCFO

JUNE 29, 2023

How Cracks in Nonprofit Finance & Compliance Creep In Nonprofit CEOs rely on their organization’s CFO to provide sound fiscal management, ensure full compliance, and be strategic partners. They also rely on the CFO’s leadership, providing up to date communication, and accurate financial reporting.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The FP&A function is responsible for many vital, big picture tasks that can help a company make the right decision, including: Financial statement forecasting Analyzing churn, retention, and bookings Pointing out risks, opportunities, and key business drivers to influence decision-making Cash forecasts Guiding the annual budgeting process.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The FP&A function is responsible for many vital, big picture tasks that can help a company make the right decision, including: Financial statement forecasting Analyzing churn, retention, and bookings Pointing out risks, opportunities, and key business drivers to influence decision-making Cash forecasts Guiding the annual budgeting process.

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

Boston Startup CFO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can also bring to your attention many key details that must be communicated to investors to secure their interest. No budgeting process in place A budget is a financial plan that outlines how you will allocate your resources over a certain period of time.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 3, 2019

What: The right strategic choices. The priorities of Finance are changing due to business demands and the opportunities provided by new technology. Our time and energy will shift from compliance and control to planning, analysis, and business partnering—deploying resources rather than just counting coins.

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Jedox Finance

AUGUST 23, 2022

With the increasing complexity of the market environment and increasing competition, a decentralized planning system is becoming an ever-increasing problem. After all, finance teams create budgets – and planning teams use this information as the basis for their work. Develop a plan with clearly defined goals.

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Centage

JULY 12, 2022

Kate Drenckhahn is Centage’s Senior Product Manager focused on the strategic planning and execution of new and existing Planning Maestro functionality. Most recently Kate wore many hats at CABEM Technologies, where she managed a competency and compliance management system.

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CFO Leadership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our data indicates that as hard as leaders tried to clearly communicate priorities throughout the pandemic, those efforts have not always gotten everyone on the same page. But certainly it’s a good idea to share improvement plans and budgets with managers, as appropriate. > How to plan more effectively. . >

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Planful

JUNE 15, 2017

It’s no longer just about pulling together the annual budget and reporting on variances. FP&A teams are now taking the lead in ongoing planning and forecasting, as well as in scenario modeling. How the Role of FP&A Has Changed. Investments in FP&A. Investments in FP&A. Employing robotic process automation (RPA).

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Spreadym

JUNE 19, 2023

The combination of spreadsheets technology and in-memory database helps to organize multiuser work on documents, upload fresh data in real time to reports and build updated analytics at any time. The pricing structure may be a deterrent for businesses with limited budgets or those seeking free alternatives.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 7, 2024

Joanne Bradford has had a fascinating career in technology, marketing and finance. And I went to Seattle and called on a little company called Microsoft and learned everything I could about technology. It’s a web technology that operates in the background. She was Chief Revenue Officer at Microsoft. 9/11 happened.

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