Centage

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And how will all of these uncertainties affect my business budgeting process? Your ability to provide expert guidance through your business budget and forecasting process will require you to have a deep understanding of your cash flow. How much can a CEO rely on the numbers in the forecast? Watch to Learn How.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

How to Create Accurate Budgets for Business Units Budgeting is one of the most important things a business can do to stay financially healthy. A good budget helps a company plan its spending, control costs, and make smart decisions. Each department or business unit within a company needs its own budget.

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Lime Light

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In todays fast-paced business environment, CFOs and finance teams must go beyond crunching numbersthey need to communicate effectively, offer strategic insights, and deliver impactful presentations. ChatGPT-4 is a game-changing tool that enhances the efficiency and creativity of finance professionals.

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Centage

MAY 23, 2022

They’ve also helped reveal the problems inherent in conventional budgeting methodologies. With rolling forecasts, businesses can gain better insight while aligning their sales and production goals with what’s actually happening from a financial perspective. What’s a Rolling Budget? What’s a Rolling Forecast?

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Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Once upon a time, businesses were satisfied with creating an annual budget. You used your budget as a measuring stick to gauge performance against assumptions made months ago. But times have changed – which is why financial forecasting is more important than your annual budget. What’s the Financial Forecast Look Like?

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 5, 2025

Finance Artificial Intelligence (A)I chatbots are reshaping how businesses handle customer interactions and streamline financial operations. What Are Finance AI Chatbots? At their core, finance AI chatbots are virtual assistants designed to automate financial tasks and provide customers with personalized, real-time support.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 8, 2025

How to Prepare Your Finance Team for Growth One of your most important roles is to nurture and develop your finance team. Preparing your finance team for growth is not just about giving them new tasks; its about equipping them with the skills, mindset, and tools to thrive in a changing world.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

With market volatility, digital disruption, and regulatory uncertainty appearing to be the norm rather than the exception in 2025, finance leaders will be hard-pressed to accelerate transformation initiatives and get them up and running quickly. Furthermore, the finance function must evolve to become more tech-savvy.

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Centage

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With proper budgeting and forecasting, just about any business can protect itself against recession. Revisit Your Forecast Assumptions. Speaking of assumptions, revisiting your forecasted beliefs is crucial to surviving the downturn that’s likely to come. We recommend moving to a monthly and quarterly rolling budget.

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Future CFO

JUNE 27, 2024

Finance leaders are now seeing generative artificial intelligence to have the most immediate impact on explaining forecast amd budget variances, according to Gartner, Inc. This enables users to perform natural language queries to quickly assess known common causes of variance."

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Simply Treasury

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“If you have to forecast, forecast often” (Edgar R. Need for reliable forecasts. Nobody could deny the importance of having accurate and reliable Cash-Flow Forecasts (CFF). Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. So, what are the keys to good forecasting?

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Centage

JUNE 20, 2023

Budgeting season is almost here. For many CFOs and budget managers, it will be a time of an endless stream of data, requests and revisions. But what happens if after all the time, energy and resources devoted to it, the budget still doesn’t quite stack up? You likely already know the answer. The worst part? A better solution?

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Jedox Finance

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

However, forecasting or predicting how much your customers want to buy or how well a business would perform in the future was much more difficult to achieve way back then. But what about forecasting? As CRM has evolved, many vendors included sales forecasting functionalities in their tools. Let your CRM work its magic.

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Future CFO

MARCH 3, 2025

The finance function is undergoing a seismic shift. Technological advancements, evolving market demands, and a heightened focus on sustainability are converging to reshape the finance landscape. A recent report by McKinsey estimates that automation could potentially displace up to 30% of work activities in finance and accounting.

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Jedox Finance

MARCH 17, 2022

Although it is nearly impossible to predict the future, forecasting future market development and customer needs is an essential component of corporate strategy and planning. Predictive forecasting can help guide a company in growing more profitably and respond quickly to changes. What is Predictive Forecasting?

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Future CFO

MARCH 5, 2025

Digital transformation emerges as the top priority for finance professionals, focusing on enhancing financial planning and budgeting, optimising ERP systems, and improving data integration. In the study, 72% of respondents say their organisation is prioritising the digitalisation of their financial planning and budgeting.

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Fpanda Club

MAY 17, 2022

Budget and annual planning cycle - these words can make many people tremble. There are many reasons to hate budget effort. Indeed, it usually takes several months to run the budget cycle. On average, companies build 5 versions of the budget before final approval. Too many iterations. Too many people involved.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This issue hampers forecasting accuracy, risk management, and resource allocation. Without accurate insights, businesses struggle with forecasting, risk management, and resource allocation. Strong FP&A practices help finance teams improve data accuracy , use technology effectively, and make well-informed financial decisions.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

While the sizeable increase in infra spend and sectoral initiatives in Union Budget augur well, there is need for policy reforms that help create a robust private investment ecosystem. Both of these would be addressed through the Gati Shakti initiative which is one of the cornerstones of Budget 2022-23.

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Lime Light

MARCH 10, 2025

For many finance teams, Excel is the default tool for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Its familiar, flexible, and deeply embedded in day-to-day workflows.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The Finance Bill, 2022 proposes amending the RBI Act, 1934 to modify the definition of a bank note to cover digital notes issued by the central bank. The Reserve Bank of India ( RBI ) will introduce a digital rupee in the next financial year beginning April 2022 subsequent to amendments proposed in the Finance Bill, 2022.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Financial models are essential for organizations, helping forecast financial performance using historical data and future projections. This practice allows businesses, investors, and finance professionals to evaluate investment opportunities, assess risks, forecast future scenarios, and support strategic decision-making.

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Navigator SAP

JUNE 28, 2022

ERP software links processes, allowing decision makers to plan, budget, forecast, and report on company activities with high accuracy. There are several ways companies can apply enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools that help streamline procurement, compliance, supply chain efficiency, and financial operations.

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Centage

JUNE 28, 2023

When it comes to automation, what’s particularly beneficial is the way technology can automate how financial data flows through models and forecasts, freeing financial teams from the manual labor of attempting to create forecasts via spreadsheets. Fortunately, automation allows for increased agility.

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Centage

AUGUST 15, 2022

With that in mind, many businesses are turning to budgeting and planning drivers as a way of obtaining more accurate information. A newer approach to financial management, driver-based planning involves examining a company’s main business and value drivers with a goal of designing plans and budgets with them in mind.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Continuing the same spirit in defence allocations, 68% of the defence capital procurement budget for domestic players will also go a long way in strengthening the domestic hi-tech manufacturing ecosystem. Budget 2022 is one of the more progressive Budgets we have had in recent years. By Ankit Agarwal.

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Centage

AUGUST 16, 2023

Spreadsheets like Excel can be valuable to small businesses for tracking costs and organizing their finances. Finding a tool for automating budgeting helps companies maintain and grow their business in numerous ways. A solution that provides automated budgets can easily wrangle this data into absorbable metrics that tell a story.

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Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

As change continues to add uncertainty to the Healthcare sector finance leaders remain tasked with effectively analyzing, monitoring and predicting the financial performance of your organization. Accelerate your budgeting cycles and minimize the risk of data errors. Generate detailed personnel plans.

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Centage

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This accessible program can accomplish various tasks, such as financial forecasting and budgeting. If your business has used Excel for financial forecasting, you may have found some challenges with the program. However, there can be some disadvantages to using Excel for your company’s financial forecasting.

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Centage

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Businesses talk a lot about budgets, revenue projections, and actuals. However, one of the most important planning tools for a business of any size is cash flow forecasting – and it’s especially important in times of uncertainty. The direct method , however, is better for shorter to medium term forecasting.

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Fpanda Club

MARCH 14, 2021

Assessing efficiency of businesses, projects and processes, the finance function does not always set an example in terms of best productivity. The evolution of the finance function results in new roles of finance professionals as strategic co-pilots and process and performance management experts.

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Centage

JULY 19, 2022

Business budgeting is a crucial factor with the ability to impact a business’ long-term success or failure. Along with providing important information regarding day-to-day operations, an accurate budget better enables companies to predict revenue, trim costs, and make decisions regarding expenditures and opportunities.

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 1, 2025

WHATS INSIDE: 6 PILLARS OF NONPROFIT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT The 30 points in The Charity CFO Financial Blueprint are grouped into six essential categorieseach representing a core component of sustainable nonprofit finance. In a recent episode, we explored one of the most overlooked topics in nonprofit finance: diffused financial responsibility.

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CFO Plans

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Budgeting for Tech Startups A critical aspect of this planning is budgeting for tech startups. This process goes beyond simple fund allocation, encompassing the forecasting of future financial needs and proactive preparation. Optimize Your Budget with Strategic Planning from CFO experts.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

lakh crore, against the Budget estimate of Rs 12.05 Also Read| Budget 2022: FM proposes to permit taxpayers to file updated ITR on payment of additional tax. The Budget has projected a fiscal deficit of 6.4% The market was expecting net borrowing to be in the range of Rs 12.50 lakh crore to Rs 13 lakh crore. lakh crore.

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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? They function as both an analysis and data entry tool, making them a convenient choice for many finance teams. For many finance teams, the spreadsheet trap is a hard habit to break. How Is Power BI Used in Finance?

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unfortunately, creating a perfect budget doesn’t mean that you’ll follow it. Budget vs actuals analysis is one of the most effective ways to maintain a clear picture of your company’s performance. Budget vs actuals analysis allows you to assess how well your organization is following its financial plans. Gather the Data.

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