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How to Calculate Your Profitability: A Case Study

CFO Simplified

As Iowa State University reminds us, “profitability is the primary goal of all business ventures.”. Business leadership is often responsible for measuring current, past, and future profitability. But what is profitability? This CFO Simplified client watched profitability slowly disappear—until they incurred a $125,000 loss.

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Budgeting for Analysis

CFO Simplified

Nobody likes creating a budget. But budgeting is vital because it’s the company’s plan for the coming year. If the proper analysis is done, then the budget becomes a tool to guide the company forward. Budgeting is a process that may result in multiple iterations before the resulting numbers are acceptable.

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Financial Wellness Check: Assessing Your Business’ Stability

CFO Share

However, there are four categories which should always be verified: Liquidity Profitability and efficiency Capital structure and obligations Growth Check out our sample general financial health check. Common liquidity checks include: Cash runway – the number of months’ cash remaining. for maximum stability. Anything less than 1.2

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Duncan Burgess, Global Finance Director

CFO News Room

Duncan Burgess’ “number one passion” in his role is people. He joined oil and gas company BG Group in their budgeting and forecasting team to broaden his management accounting and reporting experience. This meant everyone felt empowered to make the appropriate decisions to drive the company’s profitability”. “By

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This FP&A Factor will Cost US Businesses $7,800,000,000 in 2022

The Finance Weekly

billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. When this is multiplied by many skilled employees, and even more so around budgeting season, the amount of work hours lost can easily reach into the hundreds for an individual company. billion lost.

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Protecting Your Law Firm

CFO Simplified

As we’ve worked increasingly with law firms over the past few years, there are a number of commonalities that we’ve found with many of the firms that we’ve met and have worked with. But what’s missing is the “home care” that’s needed to make sure that their firm is running efficiently and profitably. Impressive – really.

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When to use FP&A software for nonprofits

Centage

Building and maintaining an effective budget is daunting no matter what industry you’re in — but financial planning for nonprofits is especially tough. Here are three key benefits of adopting nonprofit budgeting and forecasting software. Simply adding an account can cause the plan and budget to fall apart. No programming.