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When to Use a ‘Decision Tree’ for Business Planning

CFO Selections

The “branches” off each decision alternative that result use data analysis to forecast the most likely outcome of each decision. A decision tree is a critical part of strategic planning because it allows decision makers to analyze the effects of a significant change throughout different areas of the business.

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Strategic Budgeting and Forecasting: Five Questions to Consider

Centage

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. Watch Demo.

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How to Find the Best FP&A Candidates for Your Team

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) candidates are professionals who specialize in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis within an organization. Experience: FP&A candidates may have prior experience in financial analysis, accounting, or related roles.

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Sales Performance Management: Connecting the dots to xP&A

Jedox Finance

It is not uncommon to find other, more narrow, definitions for SPM: Improvement of sales personnel performance; streamline sales and sales-operations data; monitoring and measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of sales processes. Modern FP&A departments work closely with other departments across the organization as a business partner.

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The Ins and Outs of Budgeting and Planning Drivers

Centage

With driver-based planning, companies identify a set of factors that influence their success and model that data to better understand its impact. Managers can then run scenarios with the drivers to improve long-term strategic planning. Driver-based planning lets businesses focus on key indicators while ignoring the noise.

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FP&A best practices for 2024

Centage

Finance teams often get asked to do more with less, which makes it important that you adopt the right FP&A tools to amplify your capabilities and create more time for strategic planning. Cloud platforms enhance collaboration, ensure real-time data access, and facilitate seamless integration with other business systems.

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Where Can FP&A Career Path Take You?

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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.