Centage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Staying on top of your financial performance is vital for running your business. Unfortunately, creating a perfect budget doesn’t mean that you’ll follow it. Budget vs actuals analysis is one of the most effective ways to maintain a clear picture of your company’s performance. Gather the Data.

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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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Centage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Too often, the things that get broken are Excel formulas that touch many aspects of your business’ budget and financial planning. Centage’s Planning Maestro empowers finance professionals to build driver-based budgets effortlessly, eliminating the need for programming and formulas. Formula-free budgeting?

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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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E78 Partners

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of modern business, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) has evolved from a conventional accounting function to a strategic partner that steers organizations towards growth, profitability, and free cash flow.

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Centage

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. Financial forecasting gives businesses the agility to adapt to changing conditions.

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Centage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Financial planning is a crucial part of sustaining and growing your business. The office of finance, department heads, and C-suite executives spend much of their time making, checking, and approving the yearly budget. And financial management doesn’t stop once the annual budget is approved.

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The Finance Weekly

MAY 25, 2022

Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting. A company’s plan, budget, and forecast are usually talked about all together, whether it be in the boardroom, in a company goal-setting sheet, or in general talk about FP&A. Financial Planning. Therefore it allows for more flexibility and creativity.

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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. To maintain multiple spreadsheets, you will be required to perform manual data entry.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Your business can use historical and recent business performance with the recurrent business cycle and seasonal trends to predict your organization’s financial performance in various scenarios. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.

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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. Do we have the data we need readily available? Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process.

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Collectiv

AUGUST 18, 2022

To succeed in a highly competitive business landscape, enterprises need a robust financial planning and forecasting strategy. Why Planning and Forecasting are Critical for Enterprises. Financial planning and forecasting go far beyond just day-to-day budgeting.

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Planful

MAY 7, 2021

Planning for the workforce of tomorrow requires visibility into everything from organization-wide workforce costs to department-level compensation costs. Some of the tools used in this process include FP&A platforms— these can play a huge role in effective workforce planning. . Plan Dynamically.

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Centage

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Why Accurate and Granular or Detailed Financial Reporting is Imperative During Times of Volatility. Often, CFOs and executive teams put together a plan that represents a snapshot of what they believe will happen, based on the best data they have available at the time. Enter Modern Financial Reporting.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Your business can use historical and recent business performance with the recurrent business cycle and seasonal trends to predict your organization’s financial performance in various scenarios. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Unlike a typical financial downturn, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic has been far more difficult to predict. The virus continues to ravage the global population, effect changes in consumer behavior, unearth workforce planning challenges, precipitate demand drops, and create supply chain shocks across the business world.

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Centage

MAY 3, 2022

The leading provider of modern cloud-based FP&A solutions for mid-sized organizations, Centage Corporation prides itself on empowering today’s financial leaders to better guide their organizations to success. As a result, users can reduce manual tasks for budgeting and planning without compromising the integrity of the end result.

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Spreadym

AUGUST 10, 2023

When choosing the best financial reporting software solution, it's important to consider factors such as ease of use, scalability, integration with existing systems, compliance with accounting standards, cost, customer support, and any unique requirements your organization might have. What is financial reporting software?

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Centage

JUNE 28, 2023

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. Accurate measurements also allow businesses to engage in scenario modeling.

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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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Spreadym

JULY 10, 2023

The financial close process, also known as the accounting close process or month-end close, is a series of steps undertaken by an organization to finalize its financial records for a specific accounting period. Adjustments are made to ensure that financial statements reflect the economic reality of the period being closed.

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 12, 2019

An Interview with Jamie Cousin, FP&A Manager at ServiceMaster. The FP&A team at ServiceMaster is searching for answers deep in the individual experiences and purchase histories of over 2 million customers with assistance from the new Artificial Intelligence capabilities embedded in Jedox software.

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Centage

JANUARY 19, 2024

This crucial aspect of financial management can significantly impact a company’s competitiveness, and its ability to stay agile in a changing business landscape. It involves the meticulous planning and budgeting of funds across various facets of the organization, such as departments, projects, or physical locations.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 5, 2024

Next, came a new solution, Datarails Connect , which leverages Excel's success to transform it into a kind of self-service BI solution, enabling finance professionals to become truly independent by connecting their entire data stack to Excel in a simple and self-service manner. This question was tricky, and we were eager to see the results.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The financial landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, driven by big data, globalisation, and digitisation. Advanced EPM systems can also support performance methodologies such as balanced scorecards, offering users real-time feedback on their organisations' financial performance. Integration challenges can also blindside CFOs.

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Collectiv

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Some of the most popular use cases include sales reporting, financial analysis, web and social media traffic analytics, inventory management, and time-tracking, but really…the list goes on and on. Power BI creates powerful reports with your existing data or becomes an integral part of broader Power Platform solutions.

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Collectiv

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Some of the most popular use cases include sales reporting, financial analysis, web and social media traffic analytics, inventory management, and time-tracking, but really…the list goes on and on. Power BI creates powerful reports with your existing data or becomes an integral part of broader Power Platform solutions.

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Planful

JUNE 8, 2016

A recent Argyle virtual event sponsored by Planful discussed the role of CFOs in today’s business world, and the increased focus on financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Argyle Virtual Event: Spotlight on FP&A. Looking Toward the Future of FP&A. Restructuring FP&A Models.

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What is a financial tech stack? From accounting and payroll management to budgeting and forecasting, finance is the reason and numbers behind every bit of data that passes through the organization. A finance software stack is a list of top solutions that will produce the best results for finance teams. Low implementation times.

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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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Jedox Finance

MARCH 7, 2023

Take a look at how real teams and organizations around the globe have experienced an elevated state of planning and achieved the adaptability, integration, and simplicity they need to shape the future. Retailer accelerates budgeting and reporting 2. Chemical manufacturer plans for any scenario Integrating cross-organizational data 3.

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Jedox Finance

AUGUST 20, 2020

Step 1: Get your data in order. The biggest misconception lies with the quality of financial data. Many CFOs assume that the colossal amount of data they have is of top quality. CFOs and their finance teams need to capture and verify data right at the point of creation. Step 2: Democratize scenario planning.

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CFO Share

MARCH 23, 2021

A rolling 12-month forecast projects financial performance over a 12-month time horizon using the “add/drop” approach to forecasting. Unlike a budget or calendar year forecast, a rolling 12-month forecast adds one month to the forecast period each time a month is closed so that you are continuously forecasting for 12 months.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 11, 2020

Step 1: Get your data in order. The biggest misconception lies with the quality of financial data. Many CFOs assume that the colossal amount of data they have is of top quality. CFOs and the finance teams need to capture and verify data right at the point of creation. Step 2: Democratize scenario planning.

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Future CFO

JUNE 1, 2022

Rigid data silos have been replaced with more fluid methods of working as technology-enabled collaboration provides a comprehensive, company-wide, real-time overview for agility when plans change. Once the budget model was finalised, Accent Group developed a reforecasting model to build out their month-end reporting capability.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 13, 2022

Venture Funding Hits High In Finance DataRails , DataRails , the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform for Excel users, announced early March 2022 that it has raised $50M in Series B funding. For the first time, all financial data is uploaded to the cloud, providing continuous agility and content sharing.

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Future CFO

JULY 7, 2021

LJ: As finance functions across the globe progress their transformation journeys from data stewardship to value creation and decision support, the need for the agile finance function has emerged. Leveraging a scrum approach, teams might begin with a full-year plan, but treat that plan as a true estimate.

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