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Beyond Budgeting – Are You Ready?

Planful

A growing number of organizations are moving away from the annual budgeting process and finding better ways to plan and control their resources. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the 2015 Beyond Budgeting Round Table Conference. revolution) is clearly the preferred approach to moving beyond budgeting.

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Making the Business Case for Cloud-Based Planning and Reporting

Planful

Are you ready to upgrade to a cloud-based EPM solution that can help you spend more time on value-added analysis and less time on data collection and fixing Excel errors? Reducing Reliance on Spreadsheets for Budgeting, Planning, and Reporting. Lack of security sending budgeting spreadsheets via email.

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Everything You Wanted to Know about FP&A Best Practices

Fpanda Club

Best practice in the budget and planning process, PWC 2017 7. Preparing for the next level of financial planning and analysis, APQC, AFP, 2019 Some of the most interesting metrics include: Processes Annual budget cycle time lasts 25 days for top performers with 4 versions of budgets produced before final approval.