Accountancy Today

JANUARY 10, 2022

The combined market value of the 60 UK-listed companies that participated is £493bn, approximately 19% of the UK quoted equity market. Ian Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, said: “Like equity markets, which rallied into the new year, CFOs seem to be looking past Omicron and plan to focus their businesses on growth in 2022.

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Spreadym

AUGUST 25, 2023

Headcount planning is a strategic process used by organizations to determine the optimal number of employees needed to achieve their business goals and objectives. What is headcount planning? Budget Considerations: Headcount planning must be in line with the organization's budget.

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Fpanda Club

APRIL 18, 2022

Marketing teams, being among FP&A’s counterparties, are usually considered to be the most creative people in the company. To perform these functions marketing, as a discipline, possesses a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to analyze data, verify hypotheses and communicate information.

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VCFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Yet, this perception often differs from the view of the market. As a business owner, understanding the underlying drivers of genuine, market validated value in your enterprise empowers informed decisions. Owners often seek valuations from CPAs or similar entities for purposes such as insurance, estate planning, or internal events.

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Centage

AUGUST 15, 2022

In the current economic climate, proper financial planning and management are more essential than ever before. With that in mind, many businesses are turning to budgeting and planning drivers as a way of obtaining more accurate information. Managers can then run scenarios with the drivers to improve long-term strategic planning.

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CFO News

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Corporate travel is resuming in India, with overseas markets like Hong Kong, Moscow, Turkiye, Dubai, and more betting big on hosting meetings and conferences. Hong Kong sees traction from various sectors, while Moscow plans to directly reach out to Indian corporate clients.

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 24, 2021

This also affects the go-to-market processes in particular for the marketing and sales functions. A company’s web presence, which is usually designed by marketing, is becoming an increasingly important component in the sales process. Where marketing and sales converge. The evolution of marketing data.

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Centage

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The traditional budgeting and forecasting planning processes can be long and painful. Any number of issues can arise that render forecasts or the line items on an annual budget quickly outdated. Shifting market conditions or bad assumptions drawn from historical data can leave business leaders struggling to make the right decisions.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 23, 2023

An important truism about marketing is that to be effective, the marketer’s message needs to connect with the audience it intends to reach. Ultimately, what’s important to remember is that it often takes time for the effects of quality content marketing to come to fruition, meaning the most important lesson is to stick with it.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

If the role of statistics is to make sense of large and contradictory data, it is a critical skill in every discipline, and especially one, with as many numbers as finance. Being a control freak, I have created my own versions of what I would like my students to know in each of these disciplines, and you can find my versions on my website.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Thus, it includes not only the direct costs of producing the product or service the firm sells, but also other expenses associated with operations, including S, G & A expenses and marketing costs. Facebook: Cleaning up the Accounting.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 12, 2024

Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals can rely less on clunky, manual labor and more on strategic thinking and CFOs are becoming more confident in data accuracy and have shifted their focus to strategy. There are three ways AI works with FP&A teams to improve the financial planning process: 1.

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Future CFO

APRIL 18, 2022

Global IPO market saw significant slowdown in Q1 2022 after fter record-high levels of global IPO activity in 2021, said EY recently. However, by the second half of the quarter, worldwide stock market declines shifted the trajectory dramatically in the opposite direction, resulting in a significant drop in overall activity, EY added.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Moreover, current market conditions drive private fund managers to hone in on their cash management practices , with many turning to strategies more commonly used by their corporate counterparts. Money market funds are “particularly attractive” as they generate yield on idle cash and are highly liquid, according to Quinn.

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Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Workforce planning is important to meeting your organization’s strategic vision, but it’s something that many consider a kind of fortune telling. In reality, it’s more science than art, and should be a critical component of management’s operational planning – especially during uncertain times. Download the Workforce Planning Toolkit.

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Centage

MARCH 15, 2022

Designed to help businesses prepare for the unknown, financial scenario planning is a strategic tool for flexible long-term decision-making. With financial scenario planning, companies seek to avoid overpredicting and underpredicting their future by separating content into two categories: things that are certain and things that are unknown.

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 27, 2023

Planful and Datarails are two of the leading FP&A solutions in 2023. Planful is an FP&A solution that was built for large companies and enterprises. Planful has a great AI feature called Planful Predict and it is a big selling point in 2023.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The numbers don’t lie -- or so the saying goes – but they rarely tell the whole story either, just like how the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) encompasses more than just finance and accounting. It used to be pretty much all about the numbers – but the narrative has changed. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

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CFO News

MARCH 1, 2023

The increase in the number of lateral white-collar job positions could be attributed to the need among certain sectors to recruit for their long-term growth plans as well as replacement hiring in sectors facing high attrition.

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Spreadym

AUGUST 23, 2023

Workforce planning is the strategic process of identifying and aligning an organization's human resource needs with its overall business goals and objectives. What are the goals of workforce planning process? This might involve identifying skills gaps and developing plans to fill them.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I think it really is going to take that before we see a completely normalized market.”. The Hub Fed chief acknowledged the latest job numbers are a “significant improvement.” But I think at this point the market understands that we’re not planning on raising rates anytime soon.”. On Thursday (Sept. 3), the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Airbnb is looking to pause its marketing campaigns as a way to save $800 million while the company’s executives slash half of their salaries, Reuters reported on Friday (March 27), citing sources. New hires are also on hold, “with the exception of a very small number of critical roles,” the source said.

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Centage

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

in the wake of the global pandemic and a drastic shift to remote/hybrid work, workforce planning has never been more challenging to manage. These are unprecedented times, adding to the pressure of effectively executing workforce planning and budgeting. Get Detailed With Personnel Planning Details, Details, Details!

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 20, 2023

But even as fee-only financial planning has gained in popularity and advisory firm websites have become ubiquitous, it can still sometimes be hard for prospective clients to determine how much they would pay for advice before actually reaching out to the firm. the complexity of the prospect’s financial situation).

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 8, 2022

Good marketing based on using impactful messages for consumers is a foundational element for many types of businesses that allows companies to define and convey their unique value. scheduling a complimentary consultation or downloading a free sample financial plan).

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 28, 2023

Erica is the Founder and Owner of Track That Advisor, a consulting and coaching firm based in Gilbert, Arizona, that helps advisory firms track, and then improve upon, their marketing results. Read More.

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The Finance Weekly

JUNE 22, 2022

To top it all off, the current market downturn and continued inflation is putting additional strains on companies’ forecasting and planning efforts. Scenario planning is becoming increasingly critical for companies survival, but many FCFOs struggle with providing their customers with an efficient strategy for this.

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E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A large number of professionals are leaving their current roles for work life balance and increased compensation despite tenure and growth potential in their current roles. This is contributing to one of the most competitive finance and accounting talent markets in over a decade.

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Collectiv

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

However, proactive enterprise planning and forecasting—paired with efficient internal processes—will certainly make it easier to handle whatever challenges come your way. Understanding different market conditions. Efficient enterprise planning gives you the agility to handle challenges regardless of the current economic climate.

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Centage

DECEMBER 7, 2022

the maker of QuickBooks Online Advanced, to bring automated budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analytics capabilities to QuickBooks Online Advanced customers and mid-market organizations looking for more robust and streamlined budgeting capabilities. Key Priorities & Requirements for Finance in 2023. Seamless Integration.

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Centage

JULY 19, 2023

Many organizations integrate updated technology to do everything from streamlining processes to facilitating marketing and sales initiatives. Excel is also a master number cruncher, calculating figures and saving the user time. Files/numbers are static. There’s no way to update numbers and files automatically within Excel.

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Jedox Finance

MARCH 7, 2023

Tapping into the Jedox platform and its endless integration capabilities, Jedox created a ChatGPT integration model to show how finance, sales, HR, marketing, supply chain, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) teams can experiment with generative AI in their integrated business planning (IBP) processes. What is ChatGPT?

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Future CFO

MARCH 15, 2020

San Diego knows what the traditional CFO function is all about – managing the company’s finances, including cash flow and financial planning, and making recommendations on how to optimise the business’ financial health. The post CFO: master of talking to numbers appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

CFOs plan budget changes and sales functions are likely to get more resources in 2023, said Gartner recently. According to a Gartner survey of nearly 300 CFOs in November 2022, 73% of CFOs indicated that they planned increases for the sales function while nearly half of them said the increase would e 10% or more.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The record number saw it surpass its native Australia — where sales totaled $900 million — for the first time, signifying that the U.S. could become an even more competitive market for BNPL solutions in the future. Deep Dive: The Trends That Drove More Consumers To Fle xible Payment Plans in 2020.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

How do you weigh and plan for the costs of such a change? In this post, we’ll walk you step-by-step through how to think about this, and use our free headcount planning template to run the numbers for a fictional company, NoMoreOffice Inc. That should help you consider all the moving parts as you plan your strategy.

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 14, 2023

As macroeconomic factors continue to disrupt the market, finance teams face mounting pressure to proactively anticipate and prepare for potential events rather than reacting to events as they unfold. Instead, seek the most appropriate distribution pattern for each data source and apply heuristic judgment around forecasted numbers.

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