CFO Share

MAY 10, 2024

By leveraging the detailed financial data they maintain, you can create a 13-week cash flow forecast that provides valuable insights into your upcoming cash obligations and helps you make better-informed decisions. Check out our blog on 3 Cash Flow Optimization Techniques for Small Businesses for strategic ways to improve your cash flow.

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The Finance Weekly

MAY 5, 2024

When it comes to sales planning, it's all about creating a flexible strategy that your sales team can rely on to hit those sales goals within a set time frame. This plan covers everything from activities and target markets to budget, resources, and market positioning. What is Revenue Planning?

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Fpanda Club

MARCH 28, 2021

This article describes the FP&A maturity assessment model focused on major tasks of the function (strategic planning and budgeting, forecasting, analytics, management reporting, performance management and decision support) and built around 3 key areas – processes, tools/systems and people.

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sarah is a seasoned leader in the nonprofit sector, leverages over 18 years of experience to guide organizations towards success. Specifically about how nonprofit organizations can handle budgeting for the next fiscal year. However, when it comes to budgets, they’re merely a projection and not necessarily a reality.

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Spreadym

JUNE 27, 2023

FP&A is a process used by organizations to develop and manage their financial plans and make informed decisions based on financial analysis. It involves forecasting, budgeting, analyzing, and reporting financial information to support strategic planning and operational decision-making.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 22, 2024

How does your nonprofit make strategic decisions? Leveraging data for strategic decision-making has many benefits–from improving your efficiency to increasing the success rate of campaigns or strategies. Leveraging Data in Nonprofit Leadership How can you use data effectively as a nonprofit leader?

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The Charity CFO

JUNE 7, 2023

This information is crucial for financial planning, budgeting, and identifying potential areas of revenue growth. This analysis supports financial analysis, budgeting, and investment decision-making. By leveraging these financial statements and their diverse uses, nonprofit organizations can pursue their mission with confidence.

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 7, 2024

This episode our Planning Aces emphasize the importance of leveraging one’s breadth of experience, stepping beyond traditional FP&A roles, and focusing on execution to bring significant value to organizations. MADE POSSIBLE BY PLANFUL | Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software.

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Why Is Budgeting Such a Challenge for Finance Today? The challenges with the budgeting process are both internal and external. According to Lee Feingold , Senior Associate at the Keystone Group, forecasting and budgeting has always been a challenge. What Are the Key Trends CFOs See in Budgeting?

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Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In reality, it’s more science than art, and should be a critical component of management’s operational planning – especially during uncertain times. So today, workforce planning has never been more challenging to manage as these factors add pressure to effectively executing workforce planning and budgeting.

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2024

Finance teams often get asked to do more with less, which makes it important that you adopt the right FP&A tools to amplify your capabilities and create more time for strategic planning. Look for platforms that support company-wide planning, allowing different departments to collaborate effectively.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

They play a crucial role in strategic planning, risk management, and driving innovation, extending their influence far beyond the finance department. This includes not just financial risks but also operational, regulatory, and strategic risks.

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E78 Partners

AUGUST 15, 2023

Unveiling the Role of FP&A Teams: A Holistic View FP&A teams are responsible for orchestrating financial strategies, facilitating planning, budgeting, forecasting, organizing & transforming data, and driving insightful analysis to improve decisions.

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CFO Simplified

APRIL 15, 2024

Are you missing Strategic Planning? Let’s quickly get through the first three items in any strategic plan. Financial Planning: Develop a robust financial plan. That plan will include not just looking at the future, but also planning for the present. Here’s a quick review.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 19, 2024

Identifying Strategic Priorities The process begins with a thorough analysis of the current financial landscape and an evaluation of emerging technologies, like AI, that can significantly enhance operational efficiencies. Investing Time and Resources Commitment is also measured in terms of resource allocation.

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Future CFO

JULY 25, 2023

Customers continue to leverage generative AI in their daily life, moving their expectations for user experience. Employees are concerned about job loss yet may eventually leave organisations where they can’t fully leverage generative AI.

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Spreadym

JUNE 15, 2023

Driver-based planning is a strategic planning approach that focuses on identifying and prioritizing key drivers or factors that have a significant impact on the performance and success of a business. It involves analyzing and understanding these drivers to develop effective plans and make informed decisions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2017

Grant Thornton released its 2017 CFO Survey this week to find that most of these executives said strategic planning is their top priority within the enterprise, surpassing other priorities like performance management or even increased cash flow. There are other ways CFOs are being pulled in two directions, too.

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VCFO

MARCH 31, 2022

Document in writing the expectations and budget for delivery. Be sure to inquire as to what type of ongoing training and professional development the resource leverages. This may come in the form of introductions to other service providers, access to funding sources, knowledge of industry trade groups, and more. Write it Down.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the evolving role of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), mastering risk management, budgeting, and forecasting tools is crucial. A CFO’s role is to identify, evaluate, and mitigate these risks through strategic planning, ensuring the integration of risk management processes across all departments of the organisation.

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Spreadym

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Spreadym offers a wide range of analysis tools, like plan vs. actual analysis, financial consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and a variety of stored versions of a document. Oracle Hyperion Planning: Oracle's CPM software is known for its robust financial planning and budgeting capabilities.

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The Finance Weekly

JUNE 5, 2024

FP&A, or Financial Planning & Analysis, is where finance and corporate management meet, helping make all the important present and future decisions in the company. Key Features: 1) Enterprise-wide Connected Planning Seamlessly synchronize planning across organizations using clear, collaborative formats and dashboards.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

And we had prioritized all our strategic plans, we had to figure out how to get them done while people were remote. But the true change comes when, hey, you know what, those loyal to that technological change figure out over not one, two, but three, five years, how to drive change and how to leverage it.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Farhaan Moolla: Innovative Leadership: The Journey of a modern and dynamic CFO Written by: Staff writer In this podcast Farhaan Moolla, a seasoned CFO with a notable career in financial leadership and strategic planning, shared his journey, beginning with his entrepreneurial family background. We asked this of all our attendees.

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