The Finance Weekly

MARCH 5, 2024

Surprisingly, Excel was the number one solution, despite being the nemesis of IT professionals. In contrast, larger companies, those with 150 to 500 employees, are shifting towards best-of-breed solutions in areas such as FP&A, payments, and payroll. This question was tricky, and we were eager to see the results.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Understanding your company's current financial health and assessing the strength of your cash position is crucial. Cash flow forecasting provides you that much-needed knowledge and is the most efficient approach to begin future-proofing your company for the coming year. Is your business set up to handle these dynamic market conditions?

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What is a financial tech stack? As the number and quality of software tools increases, companies are constantly looking to find better ways to cut down on manual work and increase efficiency. Finance is responsible for a large number of critical operations in a business. Number of integrations. Low implementation times.

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Jedox Finance

JANUARY 23, 2020

A new calendar year can be a great time to take a renewed, fresh look at your business planning and performance management. In a perfect world, we would like an EPM system that manages organization-wide planning, reporting and analysis. Collection of organization-wide financial and non-financial data.

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Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

Consistent with their 2018 forecast, McKinsey’s late 2020 study found that organizations that invested more in digital than their competitors were twice as likely to report outsize revenue growth. 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.

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Centage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Between a volatile stock market, high interest rates, supply chain issues, inflation, and a possible recession, having a solid financial planning process in place is an important piece of sustaining your business through challenging times. Today’s business leaders are facing unprecedented uncertainty. Did manufacturing costs increase?

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Your business can use historical and recent business performance with the recurrent business cycle and seasonal trends to predict your organization’s financial performance in various scenarios. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.

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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. Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process. Confidence – Am I confident in the numbers coming out of the model?

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Spreadym

MAY 15, 2023

FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) software is typically designed to meet the specific needs of finance professionals, CFOs, financial analysts, and other stakeholders involved in financial planning and analysis.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is where a great financial analyst can help you. Start with the end in mind: you want someone who naturally thinks about the business, and the future of the business—not just the financials. The most talented FP&A pros are masters. How have you increased cross-company collaboration to enhance FP&A processes?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is where a great financial analyst can help you. Start with the end in mind: you want someone who naturally thinks about the business, and the future of the business—not just the financials. The most talented FP&A pros are masters. How have you increased cross-company collaboration to enhance FP&A processes?

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

Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Your business can use historical and recent business performance with the recurrent business cycle and seasonal trends to predict your organization’s financial performance in various scenarios. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 13, 2024

Every modern enterprise, regardless of size, requires finance software to manage various aspects of its financial health. This includes tracking past financial activities, ensuring compliance and reporting, as well as forecasting future financial scenarios for better budgeting.

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Centage

JULY 25, 2023

Though some businesses rely on Excel for budgeting and financial management needs, the software has some notable disadvantages that may make it a less-than-optimal solution for your business. To maintain multiple spreadsheets, you will be required to perform manual data entry. Otherwise, you risk sharing incorrect financial data.

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Planful

JUNE 8, 2016

A recent Argyle virtual event sponsored by Planful discussed the role of CFOs in today’s business world, and the increased focus on financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Argyle Virtual Event: Spotlight on FP&A. Looking Toward the Future of FP&A. Restructuring FP&A Models.

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Jedox Finance

MARCH 7, 2023

Take a look at how real teams and organizations around the globe have experienced an elevated state of planning and achieved the adaptability, integration, and simplicity they need to shape the future. Chemical manufacturer plans for any scenario Integrating cross-organizational data 3.

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Planful

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Who could argue with fewer days spent in consolidation, forecasting, and reporting? These include things like getting off of desktop spreadsheets, aggregating cross-business data into a single cloud-based system , and automating everything that can be automated. Consolidate Data in a Single Source of Truth. Head For the Cloud.

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

Planful

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I had a chance to connect with Nilly Essaides , the Director and Practice Lead, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) at the Association for Financial Professionals. Here’s what she had to say about what’s new and what’s coming in FP&A.

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