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Plan for anything, be ready for everything

Future CFO

The result is undesired is that teams are often unable to deliver needed plans, budgets, forecasts, reports and value-added analysis when asked. The result can have financial and/or operational repercussions to the business, made even more challenging during times of crisis like the present.

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Making the Business Case for Cloud-Based Planning and Reporting

Planful

Are you ready to upgrade to a cloud-based EPM solution that can help you spend more time on value-added analysis and less time on data collection and fixing Excel errors? Finance time shifts to value-added analysis, reduce hiring needs. Streamline adjustments and intercompany reconciliations by 50 – 80%.

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Working Through Technology

FPA Insider

For finance, and particularly FP&A, automation of manual processes means employees can focus their efforts on higher-end tasks and value-added analysis. Data analytics involves mining large quantities of data to discover insights that can be of value to decision-makers. Insight tools.

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Top 3 Reasons EPM Is Moving to the Cloud

Planful

Accelerate planning, consolidation, and reporting to deliver results faster and shift more time to value-added analysis. This can be summarized in what we call the “three A’s” – automate, accelerate, and align: Automate key tasks and reduce manual work to eliminate errors and increase Finance team productivity.

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6 Things IT Executives Need to Know About Cloud-Based EPM

Planful

Cloud-based EPM software can help streamline key processes, improve accuracy of plans and reports, and make Finance more productive and efficient.

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Beyond Budgeting – Are You Ready?

Planful

Most organizations spend 80% of their time collecting and validating data and 20% doing value-added analysis. The process drives bad behavior – including gaming and sandbagging by department managers. There’s something wrong with this picture. The mix should be reversed.

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Attracting and Retaining Top Finance Talent

Planful

Tools such as Cloud-Based EPM applications for modeling, planning, consolidation and reporting can reduce the drudgery of day-to-day Finance and Accounting tasks and allow Finance staff to focus on more value-added analysis that will better support the organization.

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