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Automated and Data Driven Financial Planning Hasn’t Reached its Full Potential

The Finance Weekly

The impact of data driven financial analysis goes well beyond its traditional role of budgeting and forecasting, and has the potential to contribute greatly as a forward thinking department for real-time decision making. The way businesses conduct operations are changing at breakneck speeds. Productive finance teams.

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Preparing Your Finance Organization for the New Era of AI

CFO Leadership

Future-forward finance and accounting organizations were quick to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) years ago to manage mundane, repetitive back-office tasks like data entry and routine financial reporting. AI is a tool and not a replacement for finance professionals. over at least the next decade.

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The best software for financial close and overview of the process

Spreadym

The financial close process, also known as the accounting close process or month-end close, is a series of steps undertaken by an organization to finalize its financial records for a specific accounting period. Adjustments are made to ensure that financial statements reflect the economic reality of the period being closed.