CFO Plans

DECEMBER 2, 2024

These professionals offer strategic advice on financial planning, risk management, and business expansion. Measuring Success with Financial Benchmarking for Hotels Financial benchmarking is a powerful tool for hotels seeking to measure their performance against industry standards.

CFO 52

CFO Benchmarking Financial Analysis Financial Data 52

CFO Plans

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

For businesses poised for expansion, understanding and strategically planning for these costs isn’t just advantageous—it’s essential for success. Optimize Your Hiring Strategy with CFO Plans Business Tax Planning as a Route to Savings In financial management, business tax planning is often an overlooked yet vital component.

Tax Planning 52

Tax Planning Benchmarking Risk Management Compliance 52

Fpanda Club

MARCH 1, 2021

Being an emerging discipline within finance function, financial planning and analysis encompasses its own processes, tools, techniques and skills which should be optimized to meet constantly growing needs, requirements and responsibilities. APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® Performance Assessment in Planning and Management Accounting 3.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 130

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Benchmarking Value-Added Analysis Budgeting 130

The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

Are you planning for a Saturday night? How about, planning to buy a house in the next five years? That’s exactly how Long-range Planning (LRP) works – not only for individuals but for businesses as well. Given the current volatility in markets and global economies, long-range planning can indeed seem daunting.

Planning 105

Planning Leadership Budgeting Financial Analyst 105

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 23, 2022

What's unique about Shari, though, is how after a life-changing experience she went through in trying to get clear in articulating her own most important values, she created a 5-step “Maximize the Return on Life” framework to use with her clients, and then created what she calls her “CFO Family Checklist” as a form of living (..)

Planning 98

Planning Benchmarking CFO Leverage 98

Cube Software

JULY 1, 2024

Key financial metrics for benchmarking Financial metrics are the backbone of strategic planning and decision-making for any finance leader. They provide a quantifiable means to assess your company's financial performance, identify strengths and weaknesses, and set realistic goals.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Strategic Planning Planning Finance 52

E78 Partners

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Without careful planning, organizations may face trade-offs, reallocating funds from other critical IT initiatives to accommodate AI investments. Vendor Cost Benchmarking & Evaluation: Data-backed negotiations and informed decision-making.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Benchmarking Auditing Cost Management 52

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He also highlights the importance of building agility in supply chain management and, external focus and benchmarking in forecasting, whilst continuing to be data and insight-led. In weathering these challenges, Shivam notes the importance of having clarity of vision and ensuring resource allocations are clearly aligned with the vision.

Finance 96

Finance Healthcare Benchmarking Forecasting 96

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Comparing activities against benchmarking studies (such as the Kitces Research on Advisor Productivity) can reveal additional areas for improvement. For example, they might discover they are spending significantly more time on administrative tasks than expected, suggesting a need for support staff or automation.

Prioritization 72

Prioritization Benchmarking Compliance Numbers 72

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 23, 2022

What's unique about Shari, though, is how after a life-changing experience she went through in trying to get clear in articulating her own most important values, she created a 5-step “Maximize the Return on Life” framework to use with her clients, and then created what she calls her “CFO Family Checklist” as a form of living (..)

Planning 86

Planning Benchmarking CFO Leverage 86

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

But unlike other Budget Days, benchmarks ended the day in the green, as investors cheered a growth-oriented Budget. The government’s record borrowing plans for the next financial year sent benchmark bond yields to two-and-a-half years high. By Yoosef Kp & Ruchit Purohit. After surging as much as 1,018.03

Budgeting 130

Budgeting Marketing Benchmarking Manufacturing 130

Future CFO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Every decision is crucial to the overall results and endpoint of each and every plan and initiative, that is why it is necessary that finance leaders have a clear view of the road they have to take. Wong admits that he has always enjoyed pushing boundaries and setting new benchmarks for himself and his team.

Finance 98

Finance Leadership Problem Solving Benchmarking 98

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The yield on the new benchmark 10-year government securities inched up again on Tuesday, albeit marginally, to 6.85%, having risen by 15 basis points in the previous day. The benchmark has risen 40 basis points (bps) so far in 2022 on top of the 56 bps in 2021. The Centre’s gross market borrowing is estimated at Rs 10.47

Budgeting 130

Budgeting Benchmarking Economics Finance 130

Collectiv

JANUARY 24, 2025

Did you know that 96% of finance teams still rely on spreadsheets for planning and 93% rely on them for reporting? I dont about you, but its pretty surprising to see spreadsheets dominating in AFPs 2025 FP&A Benchmarking Survey Report. This is particularly valuable for creating unified plans and reports based on consistent data.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Financial Reporting Forecasting Budgeting 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2024

In 1978, Congress enacted Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k), which allowed tax-deferred savings through a company-administered plan. Whatever gains they had over the benchmark were soon consumed by their relatively high costs. Few noticed what was to become a revolution in investing. It was mostly ignored at the time.

Benchmarking 140

Benchmarking Marketing Investments Securities 140

Centage

AUGUST 1, 2023

Budget process efficiency can be dramatically improved by creating a proactive plan. A rolling budget alleviates the pressure leaders inevitably feel about setting a plan in stone. For example, financial planning and analysis software helps companies: Add automated tasks that cut down on time-consuming, repetitive work.

Budgeting 98

Budgeting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Benchmarking Communication 98

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A study suggests that some fund companies are misleading investors by changing their benchmark indices to make their performance look better. From there, we have several articles on investments: How Morningstar plans to simplify its rating system amid continued concerns about its effectiveness.

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Strategic Planning Planning Numbers 98

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 31, 2023

In this post, Kitces Senior Financial Planning Nerd Ben Henry-Moreland offers a framework that solo advisory firm owners can use to decide when their firm will be ready to make an initial hire, based on data from Kitces Research on Advisor Productivity and Advisor Wellbeing as well as industry benchmarking studies on advisor capacity.

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Planning Numbers Practice Management 98

Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They’re focused less on benchmarking current performance to the predicted budget and instead want to leverage real-time data to understand what the future looks like. Produce scenario plans. For cash and expense planning, use your worst-case scenario to determine the expense base you can take on. Manage every dollar.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Budgeting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Benchmarking 98

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

So, what made Benchmark Capital confident enough to put $50 million behind Good Eggs, a San Francisco-based, curated, on-demand grocery store specializing in “absurdly fresh” local meats and produce? And there are meal kits, a huge and widely varied subset of the vertical. Size Does Matter – But Bigger Isn’t Better.

Benchmarking 43

Benchmarking Transportation Investments Retail 43

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Along with the latest on payroll employment, unemployment, and wage growth, we will also get the final benchmark revisions for the establishment survey (CES). Preliminary benchmark revisions suggest job growth will be even stronger over the last two years than the 11.2 million previously reported. This rapid recovery was not luck.

Benchmarking 130

Benchmarking Education Economics Investments 130

Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 28, 2023

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Marketing 98

Marketing Benchmarking Analyzing Data Strategic Planning 98

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Personally, it has been a big year of change as well, with the Kitces.com platform adding new team members, rolling out a new IAR CE offering and our latest Estate Planning course, and introducing the AdvisorTech Directory, among other additions, to fulfill our own mission of “Making Financial Advicers Better and More Successful”.

Planning 130

Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Fpanda Club

JULY 24, 2022

Discovery driven planning Another weakness of the DCF model not discussed previously in this article is its sensitivity to assumptions. Thus, the first step in the discovery-driven planning is to create a reverse income statement which defines how the success should look like. which will be part of the allowable cost.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 130

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Profit and Loss Benchmarking Valuation 130

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 26, 2024

The study also identified attributes of "top performing" firms across a range of metrics, finding that they are more likely than other firms to have a clear ideal client persona, client value proposition, and marketing plan.

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Communication Advertising Compliance 98

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

By implementing these ambitious but tangible KPIs, Saur in 2021 raised €950 million (US$1 billion) in environmental, social, and governance bonds, the first water company to reach that benchmark. Industry and Ecosystem Transformations. Source link.

Benchmarking 130

Benchmarking Planning Compliance Sales 130

Nerd's Eye View

MAY 30, 2023

Tim is a Managing Partner for the Center for Financial Planning, a hybrid advisory firm based in Southfield, Michigan, that oversees $1.5 Welcome back to the 335th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Tim Wyman. billion in assets under management for 1,000 client households.

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Restructuring Planning Leverage 98

The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 19, 2023

A strategic CFO focuses on creating long-term plans to achieve the company's goals. Specialists in operational finance create financial models that outline the details of business processes and their impact on the company's goals, staff plans, budget, and cash flow. Help department heads make the case for new hires.

Leadership 98

Leadership CFO Benchmarking Finance 98

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent survey found that clients across several countries who work with a CFP professional have better outcomes on a range of measures compared to those working with other advisors or no advisor at all, suggesting that the (..)

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Communication Leverage Numbers 98

Spreadym

JUNE 29, 2023

Revenue planning is the process of estimating and forecasting an organization's future revenue streams. It involves setting revenue targets, developing strategies to achieve those targets, and creating a plan to monitor and adjust the revenue-generating activities over a specific period, such as a fiscal year.

Planning 52

Planning Forecasting Benchmarking Sales 52

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 30, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent benchmarking study suggests that a number of RIAs are looking to move 'upmarket' and work with wealthier clients by expanding their service menu to include family office services, investment banking, and/or trust (..)

Benchmarking 96

Benchmarking Communication Investments Numbers 96

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 28, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that RIAs appear to be building more comprehensive and more integrated tech stacks, and are benefiting from greater operational efficiencies, according to the latest Schwab RIA Benchmarking Study, with larger firms (..)

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Practice Management Securities Numbers 98

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.

Planning 52

Planning Leadership Compliance Analyzing Data 52

VCFO

MAY 17, 2024

Evaluation of 154 core data points across six dimensions and in-depth dialogue between you and a CFO steeped in all aspects of business optimization and strategic planning provides a holistic, insightful, and unbiased exploration of your company’s DNA. Benchmarks A v360 roadmap also benchmarks your company against peers in your industry.

Benchmarking 78

Benchmarking Leadership Strategic Planning Valuation 78

The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

Are you planning for a Saturday night? How about, planning to buy a house in the next five years? That’s exactly how Long-range Planning (LRP)works – not only for individuals but for businesses as well. It also differs from mid-range strategic planning processes. Welp, that’s kind of short-ranged!

Planning 52

Planning Leadership Budgeting Financial Analyst 52

CFO Talks

MARCH 5, 2025

Some useful tools include: ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems These systems (such as SAP, Oracle, or Sage) help track financial transactions and automate reporting. If an issue arises, its important to have a clear crisis plan in place so that everyone knows how to respond.

IFRS 52

IFRS Auditing Compliance Financial Data 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

“Using this platform, investment managers will be able to instantly distribute, receive and process index data, resulting in better benchmark tracking and significant cost savings that potentially results in better returns for our clients,” explained Vanguard Investment Management Group Principal Warren Pennington in a statement.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 54

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Planning Transportation Benchmarking 54