Corporate Finance Financial Data Forecasting 
CFO Talks
JULY 16, 2025
Numbers Need Context to Be Useful Finance teams are trained to work with outputs such as reports, forecasts, ratios, and financial models. By the time they move into leadership roles, they are not simply repeating financial data. Operational finance roles develop these abilities.
Fpanda Club
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
The list of typical FP&A activities usually includes planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, management reporting and performance management. Forecasting is the practice of making regular predictions about the company’s expected future results based on the past and present data as well as on the anticipated future events.
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CFO Talks
AUGUST 21, 2024
Anticipating Financial Challenges: Strategic Measures for Corporate Finance As a CFO in South Africa or elsewhere in Africa, you’re no stranger to the financial hurdles that come your way. Strategic Measure: CFOs should focus on strong cash flow forecasting and planning for different scenarios.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
He remains “bullish,” he said, on the technology’s ability to streamline vendor payments, as well as to make a bigger impact on the broader corporate finance ecosystem. That same information is key to alternative and traditional lenders, which need this data to underwrite their financing.
PYMNTS
MARCH 4, 2020
The enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) system has been a staple of corporate finance operations for years, acting as a central repository of data and a hub to initiate a range of processes, from accounting to procurement. He pointed to financial reporting as one example of this shift. Modernizing the ERP.
Global Finance
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Today, the corporate treasury team plays a critical role helping companies navigate a business environment rife with economic uncertainty, geopolitical risks, regulatory change, trade tensions and supply chain disruptions. You have the ongoing wars, conflict with China, high inflation, and [high] interest rates.”
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 18, 2017
In corporate finance, “Excel spreadsheets” is nothing short of a taboo. The financial institution (FI) announced news on Tuesday (Oct. The financial institution (FI) announced news on Tuesday (Oct. But a new solution from Bank of America Merrill Lynch is looking to make better use of the notoriously manual tool.
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