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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 Any number of issues can arise that render forecasts or the line items on an annual budget quickly outdated.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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1001: Building Teams and Breaking Boundaries | Julien Lafouge, CFO, Spendesk

CFO Thought Leader

Back in 2001, Lafouge stepped into a pivotal finance leadership role with Technip, a technology provider to the energy industry. With global uncertainties looming, he built a resilient financial model that ensured the company’s survival. Investing in talent development has always been a key part of Lafouge’s philosophy.

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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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CFOs as overseers of digital transformation

Future CFO

As CFOs are in charge of managing finances , coordinating digital initiatives with financial objectives, and determining return on investment, they work with executives, oversee budgets for technology adoption, and assess the risks involved with digital initiatives. Such shifts include digital transformation, of course.

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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.