Centage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There is no question of the value that budgeting and forecasting provides an organization. Like budgeting and forecasting, reforecasting is intended to keep an organization on track. How to use reforecasting data effectively Simply reviewing your numbers based on change isn’t enough. Book a demo. The post What is reforecasting?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The forecast unemployment rate was 3.9%, essentially equal to the actual. The number of unemployed persons, at 6.5 As another point of comparison, in February 2020, prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate was 3.5%, and the number of unemployed persons was 5.7 represented a slight increase of 0.1

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CFO Leadership

APRIL 5, 2023

In fact, in many organizations, HR’s talent game plan swings from industrywide hiring “binges” to job “chops” as external conditions and revenue forecasts dictate. In Taiwan, a worsening technology talent shortage is driving the adoption of automation and advanced manufacturing technologies among semiconductor manufacturers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Separately, The Wall Street Journal reported that a number of CEOs at Davos were sanguine about the trade pact struck between China and the U.S., In one example, at a Nokia factory cited by Suri, productivity increased by 30 percent on the heels of automation. The Economy.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

The largest manufacturer of ceramic capacitors for Apple and other smartphone makers, Murata Manufacturing Co., These handset makers are competing to grab our supply capacity once taken by Huawei, and I am not sure how much of it is backed up by their actual production forecast,” Murata President Norio Nakajima told Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Later, they considered the supply-side as well, with the increase in mandates to quarantine and lockdown that forced manufacturing to take a backseat. Many firms are now looking at GDP drops of 30 percent — numbers unfathomable to modern times, CNBC reported. million.

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Future CFO

JULY 19, 2022

Weak, less liquid markets prompted a plunge in the number of new listings and funds raised in many key capital markets, including New York and Hong Kong, the review adds. Korea Stock Exchange will take the third place after the listing of an electronic vehicle battery manufacturer, which will also be the world's largest IPO in 1H 2022.

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Centage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This difference between these two numbers is the most important part of a budget vs actual statement: the budget variance. The most important thing to look out for in a budget vs actuals report (or variance report) are large differences between budgeted amounts and actual numbers. Did manufacturing costs plummet?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As has been long forecast, not to mention strenuously requested by the CDC, the 2020 shopping season is shaping up to be a rather digital affair, with customers eschewing stores in favor of digitally enabled shopping paths. forecast to bring in $12.7 Digital Sales Surge on Black Friday. billion in revenue, according to Adobe Analytics.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The numbers missed optimistic projections as coronavirus infections continued to surge. businesses were forecast to add 600,000 jobs, according to a Dow Jones survey, per a report by CNBC. The private sector added 365,000, which is the lowest number since July. The number of new patients nationwide went up 10,000 in two weeks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association President Rubana Huq said on LinkedIn that up to 1,089 clothing manufacturing facilities have seen orders become canceled, Bloomberg reported. “I trillion throughout the United States, per numbers forecasted by experts, and a recession is expected to occur.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The strengthening of roads, railways, airports, ports, mass transport, waterways and logistics infrastructure will help facilitate faster movement of people and goods across India by improving the connectivity and create a significant number of jobs for the youth in the country, thereby putting the country’s economy at the forefront.

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Future CFO

MARCH 20, 2023

DSO as an accounting metric measures the average number of days a businesses receives payment for goods and services purchased on credit, while DIO is a working capital management ratio that measures the average number of days a company holds inventory before it’s turned into sales. In 2023, more of the same.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

Now, the ILO predicts worse — it’s looking like an even higher number of jobs will be lost as the pandemic has increased in scope and hit harder than was previously forecasted. Retail trade, accommodation and food services, along with manufacturing, will likely face the highest risks, the ILO said.

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Bramasol

JULY 31, 2023

For example, according to Med Device Online , "Many manufacturers are implementing innovative pricing models to lower buyer-side pressure. The use of medical equipment leasing saw a major surge during the Covid-19 pandemic as hospitals and other medical facilities needed to quickly deal with unprecedented increases in patients.

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Creative CFP

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A key step in assessing the viability of a business plan is forecasting what could be achieved, taking into account as many factors as possible. A Financial Model, as the name suggests, seeks to model the potential performance of a business by combining relevant inputs and assumptions into a financial forecast.

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Creative CFP

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A key step in assessing the viability of a business plan is forecasting what could be achieved, taking into account as many factors as possible. A Financial Model, as the name suggests, seeks to model the potential performance of a business by combining relevant inputs and assumptions into a financial forecast.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

SSP indicated that both domestic and global air passenger numbers in China were down 90 percent from a year prior. Hong Kong passenger numbers were down approximately 70 percent. Gentiloni said “an assessment and a serious forecast is not yet possible.” percent last quarter and came out ahead of the forecasts of analysts.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The number of funding deals for startups developing Internet-of-Things technology, or IoT—as the software-connected systems are called—dropped to a six-year low of 300 deals in the second quarter, according to analytics firm PitchBook Data Inc. . Newsletter Sign-up. WSJ | CIO Journal. billion in 2021, growing by 10.7% annually to roughly $1.5

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 9, 2022

Environmental standards may seem like a non-urgent issue if laws haven’t been passed yet, but the CFO needs to be the reminder that these issues are imminent for budgeting, forecasting, and the overall long term vision of the company. This particularly affects budgeting and forecasting, and makes financial planning that much more difficult.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

The numbers are a bad sign for Apple Inc. Phone manufacturers delivered 28 million handsets last month, down from 33 million in June 2019, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a state-backed think tank, the paper reported. billion remains lukewarm, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The airline and automotive sectors have faced declining sales amid COVID-19, and steel manufacturers have long encountered strain on their bottom line. A sizable share of the aluminum sold by the Illinois-based firm arrives in the auto sector, a space in which the number of policies has dwindled. Forecasts of a $1.5

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Jedox Finance

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Imagine replacing “stories” with “numbers” in these lines. While everyone understands good stories only some of us understand numbers, so they can never be the common denominator which we use to communicate to our audience. Hence, rather than leading with numbers FP&A must lead with stories to be heard. Does it make sense?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

S&P had previously warned China that it would face a surge of bad loans numbering up to $1.1 So, on Thursday, major Chinese lenders reduced their one-year loan prime rate, a key number used across the Chinese financial system, by 0.1 S&P also forecast that China’s annual economic rate could fall as low as 4.4

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Future CFO

MAY 24, 2021

Singapore maintains its growth forecast in the range of 4%-6% for the year. . In terms of sector growth, manufacturing expanded by 10.7% from a year ago but the number represents a huge improvement from the 4.7% from a year ago, thanks to the stronger output in the electronics, precision engineering and chemicals clusters.

Construction 40

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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.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. The scope of manual work is also quite large and covers categories such as budgets, month-end closes, and forecasts. Breaking down the Math. The average of all of these factors is what produces the $6.1

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

How Attention to Inventory Can Make or Break Manufacturers A major factor in determining the success of a manufacturer is how well it manages its inventory. When manufacturers have too little inventory, they can’t fully meet customer demands and lose out on revenue as a result.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Still, the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases has disrupted operations at a number of manufacturers, and some companies continue to experience staffing shortages. That is up from forecasts for 21% growth at the end of September. employers added 467,000 jobs in January, exceeding economists’ expectations. In January, FedEx Corp.

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CFO Simplified

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Bring Value through CFO Insights: Like any forecasting tool, proper budgeting allows management to make decisions that can help the company avoid future problems. Budgeting is a process that may result in multiple iterations before the resulting numbers are acceptable. reducing manufacturing staff to skeleton crews).

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

One of the pioneers of this new approach is the German company Vytal, which sources its food containers from partner suppliers that manufacture the packaging to Vytal’s material and design specifications and rents them to take-out food providers on a pay-per-use basis. The restaurant cleans the used packaging and then reuses it.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

The Netflix numbers were impressive, but because it could not guarantee a similar performance in Q3, the stock took a major hit in after-hours trading, dropping about 9 percent to $480 a share at 8 p.m. forecast was due to better-than-forecast acquisition and retention,” he stated. “In As stated, the company added 10.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Moody’s Analytics forecasts that 27 million positions are at high risk due to the virus, most being in hospitality, transportation, leisure and travel. The rest of the positions, about 52 million, are at moderate risk — education, retail, construction and manufacturing. Some will be furloughed and others laid off, Zandi said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

The official data are not in yet (after all, today is the last day of the month), but forecasts are bleak, to say the least. In one example, TrueCar.com , an online auto marketplace, has forecast that March sales will be down by around 37 percent, and April sales might be down between 50 percent and 60 percent.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

According to a FactSet analyst average, the automaker was forecasted to deliver 9,300 Model X, 9,800 Model S and 87,900 Model 3 vehicles. In Q3 2019, Tesla delivered more vehicles than it made: It delivered 97,000 vehicles after manufacturing 96,155 vehicles, which made two personal records.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

The National Restaurant Association, for its part, forecasts that 5 million to 7 million restaurant positions will be lost over the three months to come. The surge occurs as manufacturers are still bouncing back from the COVID-19’s earliest effects in China that impacted production for some manufacturers.

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