article thumbnail

Financial Forecasting Best Practices and Tips

VCFO

Financial Forecasting Best Practices – 7 Tips for Success. Financial forecasts are critically important planning tools. In creating the forecast, research into the profitability of current operations and areas of potential expansion are essential to success. Prepare multiple forecast views. Begin with the end in mind.

article thumbnail

Finance Teams: Stop Wasting Time on Manual Account Reconciliation & Automate

The Finance Weekly

Account reconciliation is the matching and validating of balances in the general ledger (GL) to internal and external sources or other independent calculations to accurately close month-ends and year-ends. Defining Account Reconciliation The basic steps involved in reconciliation transactions include the following: 1.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Wolters Kluwer launches AI-powered platform for Finance

Future CFO

Intelligent Disclosure dynamically integrates financial, non-financial, and ESG consolidated numbers with narratives into data-linked reports. This assures finance and business teams that any document, including annual filings, board books, and management presentations, is always accurate.

Finance 52
article thumbnail

CFOs – Masters of people, tech and finance skills

CFO Talks

Increased automation of financial processes such as accounts payable, bank reconciliations, financial closes and reporting is freeing up the CFO’s time, enabling them to focus their energies on analysis and storytelling rather than crunching numbers.

Finance 52
article thumbnail

996: Cultivating a CFO’s Toolkit | Aaron Levine, CFO, Prophix

CFO Thought Leader

This exposure revealed to Levine that effective CFOs do more than manage numbers: They tell stories through them. Our offerings serve the office of the CFO—we have a product suite that spans everything from account close reconciliations to corporate consolidations and intercompany management to FP&A.

CFO 52
article thumbnail

EACT SURVEY 2021

Simply Treasury

Major priorities over the next one to two years: We are not surprised that Cash-Flow Forecasting comes out on top when the COVID crisis has been hitting us for the past year. The uncertainties surrounding the economy explain the difficulty in producing reliable and accurate forecasts. François Masquelier, Vice Chairman EACT.

article thumbnail

8 Most Common Myths Surrounding FP&A

Fpanda Club

Repetitive operations such as data acquiring, verification, reconciliation and further regular reporting tasks based on these manipulations with historical data contributed to the bad reputation of FP&A as an uninteresting place to work. Storytelling to be able to explain what is covered behind the numbers. FP&A is boring.