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Spring Cleaning: Your Mid-Year Budget Review Checklist

Centage

As we approach the halfway point of 2023, it’s a good time to take a close look at your budget and determine where you and your team are succeeding versus falling short. Keep reading to learn more about the importance of a mid-year budget review and discover our expert tips for financial success.

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The Ins and Outs of Budgeting and Planning Drivers

Centage

With that in mind, many businesses are turning to budgeting and planning drivers as a way of obtaining more accurate information. A newer approach to financial management, driver-based planning involves examining a company’s main business and value drivers with a goal of designing plans and budgets with them in mind.

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The Role of Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Business Budgeting in Modern FP&A

Centage

Business budgeting is a crucial factor with the ability to impact a business’ long-term success or failure. Along with providing important information regarding day-to-day operations, an accurate budget better enables companies to predict revenue, trim costs, and make decisions regarding expenditures and opportunities.

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Why Financial Forecasting Is More Important Than Your Annual Budget

Centage

Once upon a time, businesses were satisfied with creating an annual budget. You used your budget as a measuring stick to gauge performance against assumptions made months ago. But times have changed – which is why financial forecasting is more important than your annual budget. Finance at the Speed of Business.

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2024 predictions for finance: From virtual payments to business travel (part 1)

Future CFO

SAP Concur has revealed key 2024 predictions for finance by its executives. The 2024 predictions for finance from SAP Concur executive are as follows. Embracing AI, automation, and data analysis will help finance teams bring more strategy to the organisational table and find a greater sense of confidence amid the uncertainty.

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Centage Planning Maestro: Innovating the Future of Finance

Centage

affordable and intuitive, cloud-native platform that lets its clients easily budget, forecast financial performance, analyze results and share critical information across the organization quickly. Out of the gate, Planning Maestro offered companies of all sizes a better way to plan, budget, forecast and report their financial performance.

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Empowering Finance Teams & Easing IT Workloads: Datarails Connect's AI-Excel Fusion

The Finance Weekly

This new product is making waves by seamlessly integrating the entirety of a finance department's operations into the familiar environment of Microsoft Excel, paired with cutting-edge AI capabilities. For IT departments, the implementation of Datarails Connect brings a sigh of relief.

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