Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In conjunction with your other numbers, your gross profit margin can tell you if your products are profitable enough, if you need to increase sales or if your expenses, like sales costs, are too high. To get this number, subtract your expenses from your revenues to get your net profit. into the calculation.

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Centage

JUNE 7, 2022

Master the Art of Analytics Of course, input is always better received when there’s data behind it. As a CFO, you can better achieve your goals by focusing on numbers and analytics. Before sitting down with CEOs and other decision makers, do your homework to ensure you have the data to back up your recommendations.

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Centage

MARCH 2, 2022

While no one can predict what the market will do, accurate forecasts can help you anticipate impacts to sales, investments, and personnel. To achieve this, you need a cloud-based financial reporting software that can support frequent forecasting, scenario planning, and reporting.

Financial Reporting 98

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Centage

MARCH 15, 2022

Check Your Data Your scenario planning is only as accurate as the quality of your data. If you want to ensure your forecasts are based in reality, it’s crucial to gather up-to-date, reliable information from multiple sources. For best results, involve different people in providing scenarios and data and reviewing the forecasts.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

You can examine the numbers and look at what happened over the last month, or quarter, or year. But without digging into more underlying data, it’s difficult to get a complete picture on why. See how you can transform your planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting with Planning Maestro. Finance at the Speed of Business.

Finance 52

Finance Data Analysis Forecasting Budgeting 52

Centage

APRIL 12, 2022

In creating our financial planning and analysis (FP&A) solution, we gain valuable insight from a wide range of industry experts, including mid-market CFOs and finance leaders. In terms of forecasting, surveyed companies anticipated needing to make frequent adjustments in order to achieve their goals for 2022.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Budgeting Forecasting 52

Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This is true in all possible economic situations: in times of growth FP&A participates in setting business objectives, analyzing options of growth, assessing market opportunities and risks, while in times of recession FP&A can contribute to corrective action plans, cost-cutting and other initiatives to preserve company’s financial health.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between pandemic insecurities, a supply chain crisis, labor shortages, and the growing threat of recession, companies that rely on traditional planning and forecasting may find themselves struggling to stay competitive. To stay agile and accurate, businesses need to utilize automated financial tools that allow for rolling forecasts.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Budgeting Planning 52

Centage

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Finance professionals must now consider new office related expenses, headcount attrition and additions tied to an increasingly number of remote working opportunities, a new headcount landscape with more candidates for new roles but also new opportunities for existing staff and the overall complexities of navigating a remote/hybrid workforce.

Planning 93

Planning Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Forecasting 93

Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Historically companies would spend part of their annual business budget planning cycle forecasting what resources they would need for the next year. Data Driven Insights Are Key to Strategic Workforce Planning and Forecasting Detailed workforce plans are built on data driven insights, fueled by a wide array of datasets.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In conjunction with your other numbers, your gross profit margin can tell you if your products are profitable enough, if you need to increase sales or if your expenses, like sales costs, are too high. To get this number, subtract your expenses from your revenues to get your net profit. into the calculation.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 52

Collectiv

JUNE 13, 2023

Data analysis is a treasure trove for non-profits. Solid processes around nonprofit data give you critical information to highlight unique aspects of your organization, boost morale, increase credibility, enhance transparency, and build community awareness to support your mission.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Leverage Budgeting Analyzing Data 52

Centage

JUNE 14, 2022

Can numbers compiled manually and memorialized in this spreadsheet be trusted? The Ideal: In today’s dynamic business environment, executives want “living” budgets that are updated with real-time data and actuals as they occur. To deliver on that ideal, manual data entry must be eliminated.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 59

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 27, 2023

Encompassing tasks such as analyzing financial data, creating budgets and forecasts, managing accounting processes, and ensuring tax adherence and regulatory compliance, these advanced solutions empower finance teams to concentrate on strategic decision-making and higher-value tasks. What is Datarails’, FP&A Genius?

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Planning Forecasting Budgeting 52

Centage

MAY 23, 2022

With rolling forecasts, businesses can gain better insight while aligning their sales and production goals with what’s actually happening from a financial perspective. The goal is to enable companies to create more flexible, agile strategies where they can react quickly to the ups and downs of the market. What’s a Rolling Forecast?

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Data Analysis 98

Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Historically companies would spend part of their annual business budget planning cycle forecasting what resources they would need for the next year. Data Driven Insights Are Key to Strategic Workforce Planning and Forecasting. Data Driven Insights Are Key to Strategic Workforce Planning and Forecasting.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Planning Budgeting Forecasting 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Next year, the mobile ad display number is forecasted to rise even higher to 78 percent of overall dollars and $21.22 The core of the display market, performance-based impressions, will shift toward programmatic exchange-based trading at a rate of 11.4 That’s a $15.45 billion figure.

Advertising 79

Advertising Forecasting Data Analysis Budgeting 79

Centage

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s never been more important for organizations to plan for change – from a simple office expansion to more significantly how to act on new risks introduced by evolving market dynamics. While updating numbers is easy enough in any budget, when you start modifying the structure of the model things get ugly.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 72

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Nonprofit Planning Finance 72

CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 1, 2023

The hosts also discuss the role of finance in enabling sales, the challenges faced by sales teams, and the importance of financial discipline and visibility in a company’s financials, regardless of market conditions. So there’s been a number of transaction milestones on his CFO tenure. Finance, we work with a lot of data.

Sales 52

Sales Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) CFO Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Centage

JANUARY 18, 2022

While spreadsheets have long reigned supreme as the foundation of budgeting and forecasting for many organizations, the shortcomings of this legacy, siloed tool have become too hard to ignore. Do we have the data we need readily available? Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process.

Budgeting 111

Budgeting Forecasting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) General Ledger 111

PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

The country has a large number of credit card users, but when the time came for Uber to expand its operation, accepting cash was a no-brainer. billion is now transacted through digital payments, and the volume is forecasted to grow by 16.2 And that’s a lesson that eTailers and tech companies are taking to heart. percent in 2015.

Data Analysis 51

Data Analysis Forecasting Retail eCommerce 51

Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2018, McKinsey reported that CFOs who didn’t adopt digital innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) were in danger of falling behind their counterparts in IT and marketing. 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.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Profit and Loss Reconciliations 40

Centage

JUNE 21, 2022

Implementing rolling budgeting, rolling financial forecasting, and mid-year forecasts. Rolling budgets come with a number of advantages, including the ability to better predict outcomes and plan for where your company is headed. With a rolling 12-month forecast, previous months drop off as new ones are added. The answer?

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Planning 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

Valuation 52

Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

Centage

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Your ability to provide expert guidance through your business budget and forecasting process will require you to have a deep understanding of your cash flow. Growth requires investments in people, capital spending, market expansion, mergers and acquisitions. How much can a CEO rely on the numbers in the forecast?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Since 2000, there has been a significant increase in the number of ATM terminals in Poland, up to 20,531 ATMs in 2014 — a 289 percent increase over the 5,266 ATM terminals operating at the turn of the century. But while cash may still be king in Poland, its time at the top has been tumultuous, to say the least.

Data Analysis 60

Data Analysis Economics Forecasting Currencies 60

Centage

JUNE 28, 2022

With less cash to count on, knowing your cash flow position with cash flow forecasting has never been more important: how much is really in the bank, how much is available on short notice, what revenues are coming in when, and what resources are going out and when. We examine the reasons below.

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Cash Flow Forecasting Forecasting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting 52

Centage

AUGUST 24, 2022

Your team members are likely spending most of their time verifying that your numbers are accurate and up to date. Since Excel does not automatically store historical data without an employee entering it at some point, many businesses frequently change the numbers in their spreadsheets, so valuable data may be deleted.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

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Centage

APRIL 6, 2022

The plan must identify critical drivers to meet those goals, e.g. unit price, number of units sold, number of salespeople needed to meet that objective, along with marketing investments required to support the sales team and so on. The delta between forecasts and actuals can have a huge impact on performance.

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Centage

APRIL 19, 2022

Without a comparison between your forecasted income and expenses and your company’s actual income and expenses, you have no way of knowing whether you are on track, doing better than expected, or falling behind. Your budget is a forecast and a flexible plan. Ideally, this will be a positive number.

Budgeting 98

Budgeting Profit and Loss Forecasting Sales 98

Centage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today’s business budgeting and financial planning solutions must provide business insight in real time and let budget owners and planners collaborate with confidence in numbers. It replaces static spreadsheets with a cloud-based financial tool that gives role-based access to data in real time. Change is here. Risk is real.

Budgeting 96

Budgeting General Ledger Data Analysis Financial Data 96

The Finance Weekly

JULY 19, 2022

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. It’s the budgeting, financial forecasting, financial analysis, and decision-making that support an organization's health and strategy.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 96

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Forecasting Finance 96

Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI story. Love-Hate Relationship with Markets! I will start this post with a couple of confessions.

Valuation 91

Valuation Profit and Loss Investments Marketing 91

Future CFO

AUGUST 27, 2023

Businesses face a tremendous number of uncertainties. At a recent roundtable discussion, co-organised by FutureCFO and Moody’s Analytics senior finance executives dissected the issues and concerns that face Singapore-based finance leaders must navigate amid the continuity volatility and uncertainties of markets around the region and globally.

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Risk Management Credit Risk Finance Risk Analysis 98

Embark With Us

JANUARY 19, 2022

In fact, we probably buried the lede on this one since, if we're to distill Alteryx into a single catchy tagline, it would be something like "unlock the power of your data. To borrow a metaphor from The Economist , that data, genuine BI, is "the oil of the digital era." Financial Reporting.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And this is just a masterclass in how to manage assets, think about your career, understand the relationship between markets, between fixed income, the Fed, the dollar, sentiment, consumer spending, just everything is related and understanding what matters when is the key to your success. And you know, I love markets. RIEDER: Yeah.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

On Monday, the White House announced that it will let the Covid-related public health emergency declarations expire on May 11, 2023… [T]he numbers don’t lie. There has been much debate about the real number of Covid deaths in China, after the virus ripped through its megacities. But the Democrats weren’t finished.

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