Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Unlike a typical financial downturn, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic has been far more difficult to predict. The virus continues to ravage the global population, effect changes in consumer behavior, unearth workforce planning challenges, precipitate demand drops, and create supply chain shocks across the business world.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Your business can use historical and recent business performance with the recurrent business cycle and seasonal trends to predict your organization’s financial performance in various scenarios. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I had a chance to connect with Nilly Essaides , the Director and Practice Lead, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) at the Association for Financial Professionals. Here’s what she had to say about what’s new and what’s coming in FP&A.

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Spreadym

JULY 10, 2023

The financial close process, also known as the accounting close process or month-end close, is a series of steps undertaken by an organization to finalize its financial records for a specific accounting period. Adjustments are made to ensure that financial statements reflect the economic reality of the period being closed.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is where a great financial analyst can help you. Start with the end in mind: you want someone who naturally thinks about the business, and the future of the business—not just the financials. The most talented FP&A pros are masters. How have you increased cross-company collaboration to enhance FP&A processes?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is where a great financial analyst can help you. Start with the end in mind: you want someone who naturally thinks about the business, and the future of the business—not just the financials. The most talented FP&A pros are masters. How have you increased cross-company collaboration to enhance FP&A processes?

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Centage

MAY 3, 2022

The leading provider of modern cloud-based FP&A solutions for mid-sized organizations, Centage Corporation prides itself on empowering today’s financial leaders to better guide their organizations to success. As a result, users can reduce manual tasks for budgeting and planning without compromising the integrity of the end result.

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The humble spreadsheet remains an essential, if not critical, component of many financial operations. Leading the Way with FP&A. According to a , September 2022 Gartner survey , companies are planning to invest heavily in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) technologies through 2023.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, as finance professionals, particularly those in the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function, require more sophisticated analytical capabilities, Gartner says these teams will likely rethink their continued use of spreadsheets at least for use cases such as dashboard creation, reporting and modelling.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Your business can use historical and recent business performance with the recurrent business cycle and seasonal trends to predict your organization’s financial performance in various scenarios. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.

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Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

Consistent with their 2018 forecast, McKinsey’s late 2020 study found that organizations that invested more in digital than their competitors were twice as likely to report outsize revenue growth. Now is the time for CFOs at organizations of all sizes to lean on AI to plan, budget, and forecast with greater accuracy, speed, and confidence.

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