Inflation slows more than forecast as tariff retreat eases price pressure
CFO Dive
MAY 13, 2025
consumers face an effective tariff rate of 17.8%, the highest level since 1934, the Yale Budget Lab said. Even after recent tariff reductions, U.S.
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CFO Dive
MAY 13, 2025
consumers face an effective tariff rate of 17.8%, the highest level since 1934, the Yale Budget Lab said. Even after recent tariff reductions, U.S.
CFO Talks
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Optimising Budgets: Strategies for Effective Financial Forecasting Financial forecasting plays a crucial role in managing budgets effectively. However, forecasting is not just about guessing numbersit is a structured process that relies on analysing past data, considering present trends, and planning.
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Heading into 2025, accurate sales forecasting is more critical than ever. This clarity not only informs your budget but also drives strategic decision-making across your entire organization. Here are five key ways to align your sales forecasting and budgeting processes for success in the year ahead.
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Lime Light
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To do this effectively, organizations employ an essential financial planning technique known as budget forecasting. It is a traditional practice for companies to project estimates and expectations for a new fiscal year.
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Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty.
Jedox Finance
JANUARY 23, 2025
Long budgeting cycles, errors, and delays in accessing accurate datawith traditional budgeting and forecasting, Finance professionals are unable to keep up with modern demands. Real-time financial data is your key to turning the tide and unlocking faster, smarter forecasting and budgeting.
Collectiv
MAY 19, 2025
Forecasting shouldnt require a PhD in Excel or a week of IT support. Forecasts get trapped in spreadsheets. Budget submissions come in by email. Thats where no-code forecasting in Power BI changes the game. What No-Code Forecasting Actually Means When we say no-code, we dont mean lightweight or dumbed-down.
Jedox Finance
JANUARY 8, 2025
Budgeting and forecasting are fundamental for modern Finance teams, yet achieving precision, efficiency, and forward-thinking strategies is often challenging when relying on manual processes. Issues like cumbersome spreadsheets, inconsistent data, and human error often hinder progress.
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?
CFO Talks
JUNE 8, 2025
The Budgeting Process Is Broken-Here’s How to Fix It If you are a CFO, you have likely outgrown the old budgeting drill. Budgeting and profitability analysis are not side tasks or compliance checkboxes. Budgeting That Actually Reflects Reality A modern CFO does not use a budget to tick off requirements.
Centage
MAY 23, 2022
They’ve also helped reveal the problems inherent in conventional budgeting methodologies. With rolling forecasts, businesses can gain better insight while aligning their sales and production goals with what’s actually happening from a financial perspective. What’s a Rolling Budget? What’s a Rolling Forecast?
CFO Talks
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
How to Create Accurate Budgets for Business Units Budgeting is one of the most important things a business can do to stay financially healthy. A good budget helps a company plan its spending, control costs, and make smart decisions. Each department or business unit within a company needs its own budget.
Centage
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
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.
Fpanda Club
MARCH 19, 2025
Working a lot with uncertainty, be it planning, forecasting or analysis of the business initiative to pursue, curious FP&A team members are able to ask the right questions, identify new trends and patterns, and uncover insights and opportunities that can drive the business forward.
Centage
JUNE 20, 2023
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?
Lime Light
APRIL 15, 2025
Higher education institutions face mounting financial challenges. Declining enrollments have led to a staggering loss of tuition revenue, with U.S. colleges seeing a significant drop in student enrollment between 2022-2024.
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“If you have to forecast, forecast often” (Edgar R. Need for reliable forecasts. Nobody could deny the importance of having accurate and reliable Cash-Flow Forecasts (CFF). Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. So, what are the keys to good forecasting?
Fpanda Club
JANUARY 23, 2025
FP&A is an evolving function that falls into the intersection of finance, operations and strategy aimed at driving better decision-making trough insightful analysis, forecasting and goal setting. In this blog post I wont focus on the activities that fall into FP&As scope by default, such as budgeting, forecasting and regular analysis.
Jedox Finance
MARCH 17, 2022
Although it is nearly impossible to predict the future, forecasting future market development and customer needs is an essential component of corporate strategy and planning. Predictive forecasting can help guide a company in growing more profitably and respond quickly to changes. What is Predictive Forecasting?
CFO Selections
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As such, their responsibilities include: budgeting and forecasting, managing mergers or acquisitions, and handling compliance issues. A CFO takes their financial expertise and channels it into a strategic leadership role to create financial success for the company and its stakeholders.
Lime Light
MARCH 11, 2025
The healthcare industry faces multiple financial pressures that prove to be a challenge in providing consistent, high-quality patient care. These pressures include rising costs for labor, drugs, and supplies. Often, these costs are not matched by reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid.
Fpanda Club
MAY 17, 2022
Budget and annual planning cycle - these words can make many people tremble. There are many reasons to hate budget effort. Indeed, it usually takes several months to run the budget cycle. On average, companies build 5 versions of the budget before final approval. Too many iterations. Too many people involved.
Jedox Finance
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
However, forecasting or predicting how much your customers want to buy or how well a business would perform in the future was much more difficult to achieve way back then. But what about forecasting? As CRM has evolved, many vendors included sales forecasting functionalities in their tools. Let your CRM work its magic.
Lime Light
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In every budgeting cycle, companies must decide which operational costs to keep or cut. Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is an approach that starts from zero, requiring every expense to be justified rather than relying on past budgets.
Cube Software
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
What is demand forecasting? Demand forecasting predicts future customer demand using historical data, market trends, and analytics. Imagine youre a CFO preparing next years budget. Why is this so important?
Future CFO
JUNE 27, 2024
Finance leaders are now seeing generative artificial intelligence to have the most immediate impact on explaining forecast amd budget variances, according to Gartner, Inc. The post Finance leaders see GenAI to have most immediate impact on forecast, budget appeared first on FutureCFO.
Centage
AUGUST 15, 2022
With that in mind, many businesses are turning to budgeting and planning drivers as a way of obtaining more accurate information. A newer approach to financial management, driver-based planning involves examining a company’s main business and value drivers with a goal of designing plans and budgets with them in mind.
CFO News Room
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
The Indian technology sector saw several major announcements in the Union Budget 2022, with a few misses in the startup segment. Budget 2022’s announcements on manufacturing, sustainability, electronics, digital currency, innovation and startups with technology as the cornerstone are expected to give a fillip to the tech industry.
CFO News Room
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
While the sizeable increase in infra spend and sectoral initiatives in Union Budget augur well, there is need for policy reforms that help create a robust private investment ecosystem. Both of these would be addressed through the Gati Shakti initiative which is one of the cornerstones of Budget 2022-23.
Lime Light
MARCH 10, 2025
For many finance teams, Excel is the default tool for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Its familiar, flexible, and deeply embedded in day-to-day workflows.
CFO News Room
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Continuing the same spirit in defence allocations, 68% of the defence capital procurement budget for domestic players will also go a long way in strengthening the domestic hi-tech manufacturing ecosystem. Budget 2022 is one of the more progressive Budgets we have had in recent years. By Ankit Agarwal.
Lime Light
MAY 20, 2025
If you're a small to mid-sized business using QuickBooks Online (QBO), chances are you've experienced its ease of use for accountingbut maybe not so much for budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting. You're not alone.
Centage
OCTOBER 3, 2022
This accessible program can accomplish various tasks, such as financial forecasting and budgeting. If your business has used Excel for financial forecasting, you may have found some challenges with the program. However, there can be some disadvantages to using Excel for your company’s financial forecasting.
Centage
JULY 19, 2022
Business budgeting is a crucial factor with the ability to impact a business’ long-term success or failure. Along with providing important information regarding day-to-day operations, an accurate budget better enables companies to predict revenue, trim costs, and make decisions regarding expenditures and opportunities.
Centage
AUGUST 16, 2023
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. Automating budgeting cuts out literally hours of work. Less time inputting information.
CFO News Room
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
The Union Budget for 2022-23 made a string of other announcements on digital payments, including a plan to offer netbanking to depositors with India Post and another to set up 75 digital banking units across as many districts. The government also intends to tax transfer of ‘digital assets’, widely interpreted as cryptocurrencies, at 30%.
Centage
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Businesses talk a lot about budgets, revenue projections, and actuals. However, one of the most important planning tools for a business of any size is cash flow forecasting – and it’s especially important in times of uncertainty. The direct method , however, is better for shorter to medium term forecasting.
Centage
APRIL 19, 2022
Every business needs a budget — but having a budget is just the start. In addition to making a budget every month, quarter, or year, you also need to compare that budget to what your company actually earns and spends. A budget vs. actual statement lets you compare your projected expenses and income to reality.
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. Fortunately, automation allows for increased agility.
The Finance Weekly
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
This issue hampers forecasting accuracy, risk management, and resource allocation. Without accurate insights, businesses struggle with forecasting, risk management, and resource allocation. This leads to better budgeting, more reliable forecasting, and stronger financial stability.
Centage
JULY 11, 2023
Budget season is just around the corner, and being prepared is integral. Planning 2024 budgets takes forethought and considerable prep work. CFOs drive the success of next year’s budgets with the prep work they do today. Here are 6 actions CFOs need to take to create valuable, accurate 2024 budgets. #1
Centage
AUGUST 29, 2023
Budget season is one of the most important times for financial teams, as it sets the tone for how well the company will grow. However, teams shouldn’t only focus on business budgeting for a month or a year. They should forecast and plan for them all year long. How Does a Rolling Budget Differ from the Annual Process?
CFO News Room
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
lakh crore, against the Budget estimate of Rs 12.05 Also Read| Budget 2022: FM proposes to permit taxpayers to file updated ITR on payment of additional tax. The Budget has projected a fiscal deficit of 6.4% The market was expecting net borrowing to be in the range of Rs 12.50 lakh crore to Rs 13 lakh crore. lakh crore.
Centage
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
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. Budget vs actuals analysis allows you to assess how well your organization is following its financial plans. Gather the Data.
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