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How to Deliver More Accurate Financial Forecasts
There’s more pressure than ever for finance teams to deliver accurate, updated forecasts. But increased volatility in the economy and business landscape can make that especially...
Making the Shift: Four Secrets Behind Great Budgeting and Planning
In our eBook: “Making the Shift: Four Secrets Behind Great Budgeting and Planning”. we explain the increasingly popular approach to variance reporting ““flexible budget variance” - this...
3 driver-based budgeting tips for CFOs
The life of finance teams is very demanding – and becomes even more so during budget season.
How to Improve Your Financial Budgeting Process
What’s inefficient, hinders corporate progress, and stifles productivity? You guessed it—the financial budgeting process.
Four Steps to Better Financial Reporting
Most businesses today know that their financial reporting is not as good as it should be. Yet many are slow to take action to correct it. The reasons are many, chief among them: other...
3 reasons you should be looking into better budgeting software
The longer you wait to upgrade your financial planning and budgeting software, the more you risk. Costly data errors, time lost to fixing spreadsheet mistakes and an inability to see...
7 reasons why scenario planning is more important than ever
Scenario planning is becoming more important than ever. We need only look at the effects Brexit has had – currencies are in a state of change not experienced in a decade; investment...
3 steps to get rid of time consuming forecasts
It’s no secret that most financial teams experience difficulties in their financial forecasting processes. There are many elements that are bothersome including accuracy, ease of use and...
Top 10 ways to make your budgeting quicker
The budgeting process takes a company anywhere from 95 days to 4.5 months. That’s not including the multiple iterations or the back and forward with senior stakeholders and line managers....
4 ways to make your forecasting more accurate
Forecasting can often seem like a waste of time. After all, there’s a lot of assumptions made and when they go wrong, they go really wrong. Unless your forecast is accurate, it won’t be...
How to fit in forecasting on top of your daily activities
We all know that re-forecasting frequently isn’t feasible if you’re relying on many Excel spreadsheets. Reassessing your forecast often is important to keeping on track with your key...
One simple way to empower your Finance team
A CFO is called upon to provide vital statistics for decision-making based on budgeting, forecasting, and planning. It can often be difficult for you to empower your Finance team to give...
