Centage

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Value of Stress Testing Your Financial Plan. As we approach the end of the fiscal year and begin a new one, business leaders have an overriding concern: How accurate are the assumptions we made when we created our plan? All plans, to a certain extent, are based on assumptions. Scenario Planning and Goal Alignment.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

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Centage

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Business moves at a fast clip, whether during times of economic expansion or times of uncertainty like we are experiencing today. Often, CFOs and executive teams put together a plan that represents a snapshot of what they believe will happen, based on the best data they have available at the time. Enter Modern Financial Reporting.

Financial Reporting 98

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Planful

MARCH 9, 2016

If you are bogged down in spreadsheets and your your budget cycle is taking longer than it should, if your forecasting methods are prone to error, or if your business model needs to respond quickly to industry or consumer trends, then EPM software can be incredibly helpful. Myth: EPM dashboards are the same as EPM scorecards.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting Forecasting Business Analytics Finance 40

Planful

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

These competing terms include BPM (Business Performance Management), CPM (Corporate Performance Management) and FPM (Financial Performance Management. We’ve touched on the definition of EPM in a number of other posts, but I thought this would be a good time to define EPM from the Planful perspective. So here goes. What is EPM?

Budgeting 40

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