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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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

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. Red Flags in Business Budgeting and Forecasting How do you know when it’s time to act?

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Collectiv

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this episode, we chatted about ways to make the transition to a leadership career in finance, what the experience was like, and how CFOs can continue to succeed in 2023 and beyond. Why Transition Into a Finance Leadership Role? Melissa took these newfound skills into a forward-thinking finance position.

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 19, 2023

The CFO role traditionally has two high-level leadership archetypes: strategic and operational. The modern CFO must possess both expertise in operational and strategic finance to meet the evolving needs of business and the finance function. What is Operational Finance?

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 5, 2022

Like many finance leaders, Aidana Zhakupbekova, VP Finance at HousingAnywhere , the largest European mid to long-term rental accommodation platform, has worked across accounting, credit control and FB&A spheres. . Start-ups typically don’t start with strategic finance and focus more on operational finance,” she explains.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One industry that tends to be recession-resistant is finance. And while the finance industry has seen its share of ups and downs over the years, it generally bounces back fairly quickly after a downturn. If you’re considering a career in finance, you’re probably wondering what the best-paying jobs are. Chief Financial Officer.

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Future CFO

APRIL 4, 2024

To successfully achieve autonomous finance objectives , Gartner says finance transformation leaders need to ensure other finance leaders fully understand the scope of changes that genuine transformation requires. Additionally, it is important that CFOs know the main components of an autonomous finance operating model.

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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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Centage

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The traditional budgeting and forecasting planning processes can be long and painful. Any number of issues can arise that render forecasts or the line items on an annual budget quickly outdated. It’s because of these challenges that many organizations have moved to driver-based budgeting and planning.

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Future CFO

MARCH 21, 2024

Chief financial officers are planning to increase budgets for employee compensation, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Finance employee pay expectations also rising In the finance function, CFOs will also need to meet rising pay expectations, with finance employees surveyed in the fourth quarter of 2023 expecting 7% growth in base pay.

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Future CFO

APRIL 22, 2024

The evolution of the finance function over the past few years has been anything but apparent, with the whole advent of digitalisation within the team and the non-stop shifts in the market. For many Finance teams, AI-powered technology does not replace humans as it functions more like a highly specialised team member.

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Collectiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Why do so many organizations abandon their budgets halfway through the year? Because the traditional budgeting process is broken. In the latest episode of Collectiv Conversations, I chatted with Stephen Newland about the future of financial planning and analysis and how we can improve the forecasting and budgeting process.

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Looking back, Jeff Coulter is not exactly certain how he landed a spot on a team tasked with designing and implementing the first-ever budgeting and reporting processes responsible for tracking Procter & Gamble’s marketing dollars on a single worldwide system. “P&G Still, Coulter was eager to return west.

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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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CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 22, 2024

Most nonprofits will use at least one of three types of data: Financial data: Financial data includes any data relating to the finances of the organization, such as revenue or expense data. Leveraging Data in Nonprofit Leadership How can you use data effectively as a nonprofit leader? Get the free guide!

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VCFO

JUNE 29, 2023

Restoring and Ensuring Effective Nonprofit Finance Practices Decades ago, healthcare trailblazer Sister Irene Kraus moved her mantra of “No Margin. Here, we look at what can cause finance and compliance-related practices to go astray in nonprofits, as well as what can be done to get them back on course and keep them there. No Mission.”

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 3, 2022

But you can make a real difference if you understand nonprofit budgeting. Distinguish Nonprofit Budgeting From for-Profit Budgeting. You may have experience in budgeting and accounting for for-profit organizations. You may have experience in budgeting and accounting for for-profit organizations.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Nonprofit budgeting best practices are often the difference between success and failure for the organization. Budgeting is a crucial element of understanding the financial health of your organization. While nonprofit budgeting can seem daunting and complex, it doesn’t have to be. It takes time to get a budget right.

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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. Finance at the Speed of Business.

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CFO Thought Leader

AUGUST 28, 2024

While most CFOs climb the ranks through finance-related roles, Matt Steinfort’s path ended up taking quite a significant detour—which saw him leading a company as CEO before unexpectedly stepping into its CFO role. When Zayo’s CFO decided to retire, Caruso saw an opportunity for Steinfort.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Chief financial officers are projecting higher budget for artificial intelligence in 2024, forcing conversations on AI ambition and policies, according to a survey by Gartner. Bant points out that As AI spending increases, CFOs have a unique role to play both in determining how it will impact finance department structure.

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CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately.

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Budgeting is the guardrail for business success. The path for growth goes through the budgeting process, making it incredibly important to match the right one for your company’s vision. There are dozens of types and components of budgets, from zero-based to value proposition and everything in between.

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Centage

APRIL 28, 2022

affordable and intuitive, cloud-native platform that lets its clients easily budget, forecast financial performance, analyze results and share critical information across the organization quickly. Out of the gate, Planning Maestro offered companies of all sizes a better way to plan, budget, forecast and report their financial performance.

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The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

Long range planning extends beyond conventional budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes which usually span a year, and concentrates mainly on financial goals and key initiatives that are 5-10 years or more into the future. These documents serve as valuable resources, enabling the leadership team to evaluate the plan's success.

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VCFO

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When I served as a panelist for the webinar, “Budgeting Basics: How to Build a Strong Budget,” we discussed a variety of topics, including how budgets affect profitability, when to start building next year’s budget, planning frameworks and the company stakeholders who need to be involved in the process. Takes less time.

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately.

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The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Drawing from their extensive experience working with numerous organizations, they share insights on financial woes, leadership struggles, operational inefficiencies, and donor management issues. When that contract wasn’t renewed, the organization’s budget was cut by 50% overnight, forcing drastic measures.

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Brett also touches on the adoption of AI in finance. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics.

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Future CFO

MARCH 1, 2023

Gartner says finance transformation encompasses strategic initiatives designed to revolutionise the way the corporate finance function manages its strategy, processes, internal controls, and financial reporting. CFOs must accelerate their finance transformation journey towards autonomous finance or risk falling behind.

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Future CFO

APRIL 7, 2022

In one FutureCFO workshop of finance leaders, despite two-thirds using some of the most advanced ERP tools in the market, nearly all concede the use of spreadsheets as part of work. Forty-three years on, spreadsheets are still a staple of finance functions for companies big and small. Albert Leong. Lee Chee Leong.

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Jedox Finance

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What is business partnering and why is it becoming increasingly important for finance professionals to engage with the topic? Learn from finance expert Anders Liu-Lindberg how you can use insights from the finance department to strengthen collaboration in your company. How do you see the role of Finance in the company?

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Beyond traditional roles around ensuring compliance and efficiency, financial controllers in Asia-Pacific are driving finance transformation, innovation and growth," says Mike Wright , assurance leader at EY Asia-Pacific. The post Financial controllers brace for change appeared first on FutureCFO.

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The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Financial planning and budgeting are vital for the success and sustainability of any nonprofit organization. . That’s why it’s important to start thinking about your budget for 2023 now. Budgeting should go beyond simply tracking money in and money out. . Intro to Budgets for Nonprofits. Allocate resources.

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