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4 Types of Financial Reports Every FP&A Team Should Be Using

Planful

The FP&A team is numbers-oriented, but also requires a great deal of communication skills. The financial reporting manager must be able to clearly explain specific financial concepts at a high level for busy executives. FP&A teams can do so by leveraging these four essential types of financial reports techniques.

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Why Financial Forecasting Is More Important Than Your Annual Budget

Centage

If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. What’s the Financial Forecast Look Like?

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How the Pandemic Changed the Cash Flow Playbook

Planful

Planful is full of FP&A professionals, from our product and sales teams to our services and implementation teams, and, of course, our finance team. Planful was built this way so we’re always talking to our customers in the language of finance. So I don’t just know the theory behind FP&A, I know the practice, too. .

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What is a 12 Month Rolling Forecast?

CFO Share

A rolling 12-month forecast projects financial performance over a 12-month time horizon using the “add/drop” approach to forecasting. Unlike a budget or calendar year forecast, a rolling 12-month forecast adds one month to the forecast period each time a month is closed so that you are continuously forecasting for 12 months.

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A Buyer’s Guide for the Top 10 FP&A Software 2022

The Finance Weekly

FP&A software assists CFOs, finance leaders, and FP&A experts in ensuring the financial health of their organization by tracking and analyzing current outcomes and forecasting future performance. What is FP&A? Why do you need FP&A? The top 10 best FP&A Software Tools Available.

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How and why to improve cash flow visibility

Centage

Growing businesses face an increasing need for accurate financial forecasting and planning. In the pursuit of business growth, they must move beyond makeshift arrangements and adopt refined methodologies for their cash flow forecasts and projections.

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Plan for Today to Better Prepare for Tomorrow: Rolling Budgets & Rolling Forecasts

Centage

For most businesses, the current economic circumstances – and looking at what may lay ahead – haven’t just resulted in financial uncertainty, it’s also brought to light the inherent challenges with using conventional budgeting methodologies to track and anticipate future business performance. The answer?