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5 benefits of driver-based budgeting & planning

Centage

The traditional budgeting and forecasting planning processes can be long and painful. Any number of issues can arise that render forecasts or the line items on an annual budget quickly outdated. It’s because of these challenges that many organizations have moved to driver-based budgeting and planning.

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The Future of Financial Leadership: Aligning Operational and Strategic CFOs

The Finance Weekly

The CFO role traditionally has two high-level leadership archetypes: strategic and operational. An operational CFO optimizes performance by combining data from various departments with financial data. It involves analyzing financial statements and data from different business units.

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The Business Case for Hiring Transitioning Military Veterans

CFO Leadership

Even military personnel who have finance and budgeting as their job specialty aren’t practicing private sector finance principles and concepts. Chamberlain helps veterans address this crucial technical skill through financial modeling certifications. Most veterans’ Excel knowledge is limited to pivot tables and V-lookups.

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Where Can FP&A Career Path Take You?

Fpanda Club

The list of typical FP&A activities usually includes planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, management reporting and performance management. Budgeting is a type of short-term planning whose goal is to transform strategic objectives into an operational plan by allocating available resources.

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Centage vs Excel: End your spreadsheet dread

Centage

Russell Taylor, Controller, Mountain View Hospital Centage saves our users hours (if not days) in budget and forecast creation, thanks in large part to our unique formula-free FP&A design. My first year here the budget was a chaotic collection of Excel spreadsheets that were emailed around, and lost version control with each hop.

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The BP&B Health Check: Your Roadmap to Financial & Operational Excellence

E78 Partners

To guarantee they remain on the right course, having a solid plan and budget in place is paramount for ensuring success. Business Planning and Budgeting (BP&B) is a strategic, operational, and financial management process that organizations use to plan, allocate resources, and manage their business performance effectively.

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3 FP&A solutions that won big in the 2022 Comparably awards

The Finance Weekly

Datarails, Vena, and Workday, leaders in the large and competitive field of FP&A software, all won multiple awards in the employee salary, benefits, and leadership categories. 6) Best leadership teams. Three FP&A solution companies scored big in this year’s company awards given out by job hunting website Comparably.