The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Whether youre a CMO or a marketing operations manager, the challenge of making the most of your budget while hitting your targets is no small feat. Analyze Data: Take a closer look at who your audience is, what they care about, and how they behave. Messaging is how you communicate that position to your audience.

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CFO Share

JUNE 20, 2024

When interviewing, I look for people who listen actively, ask provocative follow-up questions, and refuse to let me settle for the intuitive decision without analyzing data. Your fractional Chief Financial Officer should be polite, respectful, and an excellent communicator. Do they communicate clearly?

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Spreadym

JUNE 27, 2023

It involves forecasting, budgeting, analyzing, and reporting financial information to support strategic planning and operational decision-making. This involves projecting revenues, expenses, and other key financial metrics based on historical data, market trends, and business strategies. The primary objectives of FP&A.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

While 58% of companies in our dataset have a dedicated DEI budget, just 21% of companies have a senior role fully dedicated to DEI. This client was able to have an impact on a short time horizon by being laser-focused on hiring and measuring data to track progress toward the desired changes. Source link.

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The Charity CFO

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Alternative Approaches to Integration You can still make sure your fundraising and accounting data align, even while managing them separately, following these best practices: Encourage regular communication and collaboration between the fundraising and accounting teams. Need some help interpreting your financial data?

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Collectiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When creating column charts (and really, any Power BI visualizations), your responsibility as a report builder is to clearly communicate the information you’re showing. When you need to look at a series of data points over time (days, months, quarters, years), use a line chart. Highlighting budget changes on a certain project.

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Planful

MARCH 18, 2019

The FP&A team is numbers-oriented, but also requires a great deal of communication skills. Department Budget vs. Actual Reports. Every department in the business is responsible for a budget. The financial reporting manager must be able to clearly explain specific financial concepts at a high level for busy executives.

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Collectiv

JUNE 13, 2023

Additionally, the manual nature of these spreadsheets makes the process prone to human error when inputting, interpreting, and distributing data. By contrast, a tool like Power BI makes it easier (and quicker) to reliably collect, organize, and analyze data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are many tools available to harvest data about your customers and stakeholders, both internally and externally: CRM systems, social media analytics, web analytics and more. Some smart systems have all this data available in one platform. That is a pure communication function right there.

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Boston Startup CFO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can also bring to your attention many key details that must be communicated to investors to secure their interest. No budgeting process in place A budget is a financial plan that outlines how you will allocate your resources over a certain period of time.

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

xP&A allows all users in the organization to , access a single source of truth - a centralized database that can integrate data from multiple sources such as ERP, GL, and CRM. But other than when one directly affects another, each department’s plans are created in silos separate from each other.

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CFO Leadership

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Following a year of flight cancellations, a lack of real-time updates, and overall dissatisfaction with outdated solutions, travel providers will enable more tech-driven solutions in 2023 to increase visibility and communicate with customers more efficiently. We will be asked to do more with less, including resources and budgets.

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Planful

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

To support this, EPM includes the following management processes: Budgeting, planning, forecasting and modeling. Analyzing performance vs. plan, prior years, across divisions or products. Packages such as Hyperion Pillar helped manage the process of budgeting and planning across the enterprise.

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Collectiv

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Approval Flows Approval flows automate the process of requesting approval for things like invoices, budgets, or scheduling requests. Some of these tasks include saving emailed reports to SharePoint, sending bulk emails to communicate salary changes, or triggering status changes when a new sales lead comes into the system.

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Jedox Finance

AUGUST 6, 2019

In the past, what made you a successful FP&A professional was your technical skills like Excel modeling and ability to analyze data. Finally, one way to improve soft skills such as influencing and communication is via a mentorship program where ideally the mentors come from both Finance and non-Finance backgrounds.

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Planful

APRIL 29, 2021

Agile FP&A involves prioritizing people over process, with a focus on continuous changes and proactive communication. Microplanning requires the ability to pull and analyze data on the fly. Companies like 24 Hour Fitness and ALDO Group had to close down hundreds of locations or file for bankruptcy.

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