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The Ins and Outs of Budgeting and Planning Drivers

Centage

By incorporating a driver-based approach, you empower your financial leaders to focus on the data that matters while ensuring the numbers you have are accurate. Incorporating a driver-based system boosts productivity by allowing employees to concentrate on those areas that can do the most good.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

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In closing, I also want to dispense with the notion that data is objective and that numbers-focused people have no bias. Finally, it is worth noting that, notwithstanding the travails of last year, the number of firms in the data universe increased from 44,394 firms at the start of 2020 to 46,579 firms, a 4.9%

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

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These are also the sectors with the lowest book values, relative to market value, suggesting that whatever accountants are doing to bring in intangibles in these companies into book value is not having a tangible effect on the numbers. So, how far has accounting come in bringing intangible assets on to balance sheets?

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