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Five Ways Modern FP&A Can Dramatically Improve Your Budgeting and Forecasting 

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Budgeting season is almost here. For many CFOs and budget managers, it will be a time of an endless stream of data, requests and revisions. But what happens if after all the time, energy and resources devoted to it, the budget still doesn’t quite stack up? You likely already know the answer. The worst part? A better solution?

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5 Tips to Recession Proof Your Business Budget & Financial Forecast

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With proper budgeting and forecasting, just about any business can protect itself against recession. Revisit Your Forecast Assumptions. Speaking of assumptions, revisiting your forecasted beliefs is crucial to surviving the downturn that’s likely to come. We recommend moving to a monthly and quarterly rolling budget.

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Why Financial Forecasting Is More Important Than Your Annual Budget

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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. What’s the Financial Forecast Look Like?

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5 ways financial forecasting future-proofs your annual budget

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As we ring in a new year and brace for all of the opportunities and challenges it will bring, one resolution should be near the top of the list for finance professionals: embracing flexible financial forecasting to future-proof your annual budget.

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The Benefits of Automating Budgeting Processes

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Spreadsheets like Excel can be valuable to small businesses for tracking costs and organizing their finances. Finding a tool for automating budgeting helps companies maintain and grow their business in numerous ways. A solution that provides automated budgets can easily wrangle this data into absorbable metrics that tell a story.

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Ten questions on planning, budgeting and forecasting

Future CFO

To grow the business quickly and sustainably requires its leaders to underpin ambitions with solid processes and systems for planning, budgeting and forecasting (PB&F). How to support an agile, collaborative and connected finance department. These ten questions (and answers) help business leaders find the perfect solution.

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The Benefits of Automating Forecasting Processes  

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When it comes to automation, what’s particularly beneficial is the way technology can automate how financial data flows through models and forecasts, freeing financial teams from the manual labor of attempting to create forecasts via spreadsheets. Fortunately, automation allows for increased agility.