Centage

JANUARY 18, 2024

Financial planning and analysis is at the heart of strategic decision-making for businesses, and as we step into 2024, it’s crucial to align your FP&A processes with the latest trends and best practices. Here are some areas within FP&A software & technology to focus on as you start the year.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 8, 2023

To handle these challenges well, it's crucial to plan carefully and use efficient tools for managing finances. Budgeting software can greatly help by , automating financial tasks , making processes more efficient, and leading the business toward long-term success. Why You Should Use Budgeting Software for Your Business?

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Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Workforce planning is important to meeting your organization’s strategic vision, but it’s something that many consider a kind of fortune telling. In reality, it’s more science than art, and should be a critical component of management’s operational planning – especially during uncertain times. Understanding Workforce Planning.

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 27, 2023

Planful and Datarails are two of the leading FP&A solutions in 2023. Planful is an FP&A solution that was built for large companies and enterprises. Planful has a great AI feature called Planful Predict and it is a big selling point in 2023.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What are the most common myths about FP&A software you’ve heard? After two very unpredictable years, finance leaders around the world have recognized the importance of acting quickly and making course corrections to help their businesses recover. As a result, FP&A software is growing in popularity.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What are the most common myths about FP&A software you’ve heard? After two very unpredictable years, finance leaders around the world have recognized the importance of acting quickly and making course corrections to help their businesses recover. As a result, FP&A software is growing in popularity.

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BlueLight

MAY 1, 2020

Traditionally, the chief financial officer (CFO) is responsible for tracking the company’s past and present financial situation and ensuring on-time and accurate financial reporting. Today, the CFO is expected to inform strategic decisions that drive the success of the company. Source: Vena Solutions What is FP&A?

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The development of , FP&A solutions (particularly, innovations such as financial software) in recent years has empowered many organizations to both better understand and significantly improve their performance. Compliance: Abide by laws regarding environmental regulations, financial reporting, etc.

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 7, 2024

This episode our Planning Aces emphasize the importance of leveraging one’s breadth of experience, stepping beyond traditional FP&A roles, and focusing on execution to bring significant value to organizations. Read More 3.Understanding

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Jedox Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

While that wouldn’t make much sense these days, think about revenue planning, data, and processes. Sales Performance Management (SPM) is a unified approach to analyze, plan, and optimize sales processes withing an organization. In this eBook about 360° Planning you can learn more about the shift to xP&A.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

What makes for a sought-after chief finance professional (CFO)? According to Payscale.com , skills such as leadership, and financial reporting and strategic planning, won’t elevate your take-home pay much. These days, strong computer skills, as are advanced knowledge of accounting, budgeting, and finances.

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Planful

JULY 9, 2020

Planning and decision-making expert Howard Dresner, Chief Research Officer at Dresner Advisory Services recently released its “ 2020 Wisdom of Crowds Enterprise Performance Management Market Study ” report. You can also tune into my recent episode of our Being Planful podcast where I dive deeper with Howard himself.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve worked closely with numerous startup SaaS teams, and a fair share of them don’t have a CFO or even a dedicated finance team. But at several million in ARR, finance becomes a critical enabler — or disabler — of success. Back to the basics: overseeing accounting is one of the basic tasks of every SaaS finance leader.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve worked closely with numerous startup SaaS teams, and a fair share of them don’t have a CFO or even a dedicated finance team. But at several million in ARR, finance becomes a critical enabler — or disabler — of success. Back to the basics: overseeing accounting is one of the basic tasks of every SaaS finance leader.

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Planful

JUNE 15, 2017

So what does the day-to-day role of FP&A look like in today’s landscape, and how has it evolved? How can the executive team best support and invest in the FP&A function? This was the focus of a recent Argyle/CFO webinar sponsored by Planful. Key Challenges Facing FP&A. How the Role of FP&A Has Changed.

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

What are some of the biggest problems with the annual budget, and how can teams improve budget planning? Budgets Are Simple and Yet So Complex. Budgets can be strange. After all, a budget is simply a financial plan for a set duration of the company, including the projected income and expenses of the business.

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Jedox Finance

JANUARY 23, 2020

A new calendar year can be a great time to take a renewed, fresh look at your business planning and performance management. In a perfect world, we would like an EPM system that manages organization-wide planning, reporting and analysis. Collection of organization-wide financial and non-financial data.

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BlueLight

JULY 30, 2020

The financial implication of these decision is critical and the CFO is the executive helping the CEO navigate these decisions. Historically, the CFO role was focused on backward looking information: ensuring on-time and accurate financial reporting. The following are select responses from the finance leaders.

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Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

As change continues to add uncertainty to the Healthcare sector finance leaders remain tasked with effectively analyzing, monitoring and predicting the financial performance of your organization. Accelerate your budgeting cycles and minimize the risk of data errors. Today, it’s a fast-paced business world.

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Planful

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I recently connected with Steve to learn more about his research and the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable. John: Steve, can you start by talking about the mission of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT)? The BBRT is a member-based consortium of companies who have joined together to find better ways to plan and control operations.

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2022

While spreadsheets have long reigned supreme as the foundation of budgeting and forecasting for many organizations, the shortcomings of this legacy, siloed tool have become too hard to ignore. Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process. How valuable is my budget for managing the business next year?

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Centage

JULY 25, 2023

Though some businesses rely on Excel for budgeting and financial management needs, the software has some notable disadvantages that may make it a less-than-optimal solution for your business. If a member of your team accidentally enters inaccurate data, this could throw off your company’s entire budget.

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Boston Startup CFO

OCTOBER 22, 2014

When it comes to finance for a startup, founders focus on more pressing needs: What’s my burn rate? The old rules suggest it wasn’t the right time until you were 12 to 18 months away from an expected IPO roadshow, that you started looking for a finance chief. One reason is that the job of the CFO and finance organization has changed.

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Spreadym

MAY 15, 2023

FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) software is typically designed to meet the specific needs of finance professionals, CFOs, financial analysts, and other stakeholders involved in financial planning and analysis.

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you're in charge of a team, you understand the importance of using ,, workforce planning software in today's business world. Importance of Workforce Planning Tools Workforce planning involves analyzing and predicting the number of employees you need to achieve your business goals in the short and long term.

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you're in charge of a team, you understand the importance of using ,, workforce planning software in today's business world. Importance of Workforce Planning Tools Workforce planning involves analyzing and predicting the number of employees you need to achieve your business goals in the short and long term.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 24, 2020

As companies scramble to adjust to this unprecedented event, pressure is mounting on FP&A teams to recalibrate their forecasts – not only through the end of 2020 but well into 2021. Three things have been missing in FP&A teams and they are likely going to be factored in moving forward,” he said. Himashi Soriano.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 3, 2019

In the first post “ The Future of FP&A ” of this blog series, we discussed how the CFO must be the guide, and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) must take control of new and changing expectations for the finance department. ” Why: Overall tone for FP&A. .”

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CFO Leadership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As businesses face both historic growth opportunities and historic unpredictability, views differ on how to put finances back on a firm footing while supporting growth. That is, unless you’re a finance leader. CFOs were almost universally ready to spend more compared with non-finance leaders. Role Reversal.

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