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. After a number of phone calls and emails, and possibly even several days, you finally have the data you need to make decisions.

Finance 52

Finance Data Analysis Forecasting Budgeting 52

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) 98

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 98

The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Collecting and Organizing Data One big problem for FP&A teams is the difficulty of getting data from different places. Doing it this way takes a lot of time and makes mistakes more likely, which can make the data analysis less reliable. This makes the data more accurate and easier to access.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 59

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Strategic Planning Concentration Data Analysis 59

Centage

JANUARY 31, 2022

Is your business set up to handle these dynamic market conditions? Perform What-If Analysis Now more than ever, company’s need to start scenario planning for a wide range of potential business challenges and opportunities. Cash flow forecasting is a powerful tool that your organization can use to evolve along with the market.

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Cash Flow Forecasting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting GAAP 98

Centage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Increase communication across the company to keep your FP&A process nimble A record number of businesses began operating remotely during the pandemic, and many continue to do so today out of either convenience or necessity. Make adjustments as information comes in or adjust goals over the long term to better reflect the changing reality.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

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

Centage

MARCH 15, 2022

The most agile leaders collect a wide range of information from management accounts, market research, government sites, press accounts, and more. Stick to Four Scenarios After collecting data and input from multiple sources, you may be tempted to create dozens of scenarios.

Planning 98

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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. For example, in October 2014, the number of outstanding shares of Tibco Software was misstated because of one small spreadsheet error. Not to mention, you can make embarrassing and costly errors.

Financial Reporting 98

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 21, 2024

You’ll need to first find the data, export the information needed, and then dump it into Excel. With the little time you have to spare, you’ll do your best to validate the numbers, scrub them as necessary, and present the information the best way you can. Are there companies in this space solving this problem?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Data Analysis Financial Modeling 40

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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

Mean reversion : I am not a knee-jerk believer in mean reversion, but the tendency for numbers to move back towards averages is a strong one. That said, to use mean reversion in analysis or investing, you need to know what these averages are, either over time or across companies, and data can help in that pursuit. .

Marketing 130

Marketing Valuation Corporate Finance Financial Analysis 130

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

As retail reopens and starts to spur some optimism for the future, a dark number appeared on the scene on Tuesday (June 10). But the numbers show that the retail apocalypse – whether driven by the pandemic or not – could become a retail Armageddon. Alternative research and other market dynamics make such a scenario seem unlikely.

Retail 52

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Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. If you are relying on disparate pieces of data from multiple systems, the latter answer is “no” — or not without a great deal of difficulty. Watch Demo.

Forecasting 98

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 10, 2023

The labor market is radically changing , and we see this manifest first in the career choices of high school and college graduates and other new entrants into the labor markets. Meaning, don’t ignore the anecdotes but see if they point to a broader underlying data set. Store hours have been reduced; Sundays are closed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Speed is among those factors that are rapidly increasing in importance, no matter the geographical market, product or service. His company is now eying the food delivery market, among others. Indeed, Villante told Webster that fraud rates have dropped from 25 basis points to four because of data analysis.

B2B 87

B2B Data Analysis Marketing Sales 87

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

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

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Saudi Arabia and Turkey are seeing the number of plastic cards in circulation increase, with Turkey now one of the largest card markets in the region. Unlike most reported estimates of cash, this proprietary data analysis focuses on the use of cash for making payments, rather than on cash as an economic safety.

Data Analysis 68

Data Analysis Accounting Economics Banking 68

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

When it comes to the battle between Bentonville and Seattle, Amazon is taking the lion’s share of this category, according to an exclusive PYMNTS data analysis. It has also been reasonably Amazon and Walmart-proof, with many estimates putting its market share at around 15 percent of the electronics and appliance business.

Profit and Loss 56

Profit and Loss Data Analysis eCommerce Advertising 56

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

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Forecasting Prioritization 59

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

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. While 65 percent of respondents believed that their revenue would increase in the coming months, 35 percent predicted it would stay the same.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

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

Centage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A record number of businesses began operating remotely during the pandemic, and many continue to do so today out of either convenience or necessity. Make adjustments as information comes in or adjust goals over the long term to better reflect the changing reality.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

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

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Drivers might also be working fewer hours, though the numbers and data analysis in the study did not go so far as to offer a determination on that. But the numbers from the study show changing trends for a sector that is unlikely to fade away anytime soon.

Transportation 55

Transportation Data Analysis Economics Numbers 55

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

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

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Mobile technology and improved data analysis via machine learning and other methods will help fuel those improvements. According to that research, the global IoT security market is expected to increase by a 35.5 But that means business, too. percent CAGR from 2019 to 2026.

Healthcare 78

Healthcare Communication Data Analysis Securities 78

PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

It’s defining that “need and want” that will determine how eCommerce retailers go to market and will predict what level of spend they expect to see. In fact, a growing number of consumers are turning to online grocery delivery rather than taking the risk of an in-store visit. Twenty-eight percent of U.S.

eCommerce 48

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Centage

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Continuous monitoring : Regularly review and update your forecasts based on the latest information and market trends. Economic conditions, market trends, and internal factors can change, impacting the accuracy of your predictions. There are a few ways to reduce these errors, or at least minimize their negative impact on the business.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Budgeting Analyzing Data 40

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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Automating the process allows your finance team to better control expenses across different operational centers, shifts and products, adjust payroll numbers for high turnover departments, and even budget at an individual employee level to see the cash flow implications of each employee’s taxes and benefits throughout the year.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

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

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2024

At the end of March 2020, I suggested that the hand-wringing surrounding the pandemic’s impact on equities was excessive; I reminded readers that externalities tend to make markets briefly wobble, then resume their prior trends. Again, any market historian would tell you the data supports this position.

Economics 24

Economics Sales Investments Marketing 24

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

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.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 130

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Corporate Finance Communication Budgeting 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

Post-demonetization, the market for digital payments in India has grown, which could create an opening for newer, alternative payment methods to gain ground in India, especially among younger, smartphone-savvy consumers. In fact, the number of mobile wallets in India grew by 433 percent between 2015 and 2017.

Data Analysis 41

Data Analysis Banking Financial Systems Sales 41

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Other key takeaways from the new PYMNTS.com Global Cash Index Germany Analysis: Germany’s GDP grew by an average of 1 percent per year between 2007 and 2016, bringing its total GDP to €3.1 trillion and making it the number one economy in Europe. All told, German consumers spent roughly €649.6 percent of the GDP. percent in 2007.

Data Analysis 46

Data Analysis Economics Currencies Banking 46

PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2017

What makes the Indian market so appealing for businesses who want to establish their digital foothold there? 66 percent of Indian adults own a mobile phone — and that number is on the rise. Proprietary data analysis focuses on the past, present and future of nations on the rise in the world of payments.

Data Analysis 40

Data Analysis eCommerce Sales Retail 40

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. Unlike most reported estimates of cash, our proprietary data analysis focuses on the use of cash for making payments rather than hoarding. Cashing in on the unbanked.

Data Analysis 51

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