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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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. This leads to better budgeting, more reliable forecasting, and stronger financial stability.

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CFO Plans

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Strategic Budget Planning as a Success Blueprint The journey to financial stability begins with strategic budget planning. By forecasting cash flow and aligning it with business objectives, companies can anticipate potential shortfalls and surpluses.

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CFO Plans

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This article delves into how tech startups can navigate financial complexities, leveraging the strategic insights of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and other vital financial strategies. Budgeting for Tech Startups A critical aspect of this planning is budgeting for tech startups.

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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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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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Centage

AUGUST 8, 2023

When an organization first sets up its budget, an easily accessible tool like Excel can be the perfect solution. But as a business grows and financials become more complex, an Excel or spreadsheet-based budget may be holding it back. Plus, more team members will need to have input into the numbers that make up a company’s budget.

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Collectiv

JANUARY 24, 2025

For organizations leveraging Microsoft Fabric , Power BI becomes even more powerful. For example, automate a variance analysis report or create a simple budget forecasting dashboard to save time and improve accuracy. Whether adjusting forecasts or analyzing performance, your team can respond quickly to changing business needs.

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Centage

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cash flow forecasting provides that much needed insight and is the most effective way to start future-proofing your business for the year ahead. Or perhaps your integrated cash flow reports are based on GAAP accounting rules, not formulas, but aren’t supported in your current planning and forecasting software application. Learn More.

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Jedox Finance

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The world has changed so much and so quickly that it has vastly impacted our ability to forecast in the current environment. The reason was simple, the model and forecast were no longer providing useful insight and foresight to the organization. FP&A teams need to be more flexible in the time horizons they forecast for.

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Centage

JUNE 2, 2023

While all of this data helps manufacturing companies to be more efficient, when it comes it comes to creating a manufacturing budget , data is also just as critical. What is a Manufacturing Budget? A manufacturing budget centers around the expenses involved in the production of a given product.

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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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Centage

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Along with improved forecasting, Planning Maestro delivers superior financial reporting, enhanced performance, and easy collaboration. Our cloud platform, Planning Maestro , makes sophisticated budgeting , planning , and forecasting easy and accessible.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

As Asian organisations pivot toward data-driven finance, CFOs must leverage advanced analytics, AI, and unified data strategies to secure competitive advantages while addressing regional challenges. Verma notes, "In finance, data intelligence can work as pillars to achieve better forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning."

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CFO Plans

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Effective Budgeting for Seasonal Downturns Effective budgeting is the cornerstone of financial planning for slow seasons. Picture a family-owned restaurant meticulously planning its budget, accounting for reduced foot traffic during the off-peak season. Imagine a vineyard investing in technology for seasonal demand forecasting.

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Jedox Finance

APRIL 16, 2020

What does your economic forecast look like for the foreseeable future? EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) incorporates the power of automated planning, budgeting, and forecasting with the powerful capabilities of tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Budget available resources and investments.

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They have recently launched their 4th Generation FP&A Tool – Abacum Intelligence – which incorporates advanced AI capabilities for forecasting, report summaries, and AI-driven recommendations. AI Forecasting This feature allows for the rapid generation of forecasts based on actual data, significantly transforming the planning workflow.

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The Finance Weekly

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Every budgeting season brings a chance to push your business forward into the new year. With 2024 coming to a close and the 2025 budgeting season around the corner, the pressure is really on you and your finance team! Leveraging Automation Automation is a viable solution for organizations struggling with staffing shortages.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Prophix is an enterprise financial management software designed to streamline budgeting, planning, reporting, and analysis. The platform enables cash flow management, balance sheet analysis, and financial forecasting, making it an ideal tool for finance teams looking for an integrated planning system.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Elizabeth Burns exemplifies this dynamic role, demonstrating how financial frameworks can be leveraged to meet sustainability objectives and deliver value to diverse stakeholders. Our CSR efforts are guided by defined policies and a dedicated budget. My time at Coca-Cola Tanzania was a pivotal experience in my career.

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Fpanda Club

MARCH 1, 2021

The finance function now plays a crucial role in many organizations supporting and driving effective business decisions, and this is exactly the responsibility of FP&A standing at the crossroads of finance, strategy and technology to leverage data and generate insights. Best practice in the budget and planning process, PWC 2017 7.

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Fpanda Club

MARCH 28, 2021

This article describes the FP&A maturity assessment model focused on major tasks of the function (strategic planning and budgeting, forecasting, analytics, management reporting, performance management and decision support) and built around 3 key areas – processes, tools/systems and people.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

During turbulent times, your business can forecast and do scenario planning for the future with our forecasting and scenario planning tools at Centage. What Is Financial Forecasting? It is important to keep a forecast up to date as forecasting further out increases the chance of inaccuracies.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 13, 2025

Now, picture the opposite: instant access to real-time financial insights, automated compliance checks, and AI-driven forecasts guiding your next move. Predictive analytics can also help companies forecast future trends, allowing them to prepare for risks and opportunities ahead of time.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Update your forecasts regularly: Use rolling forecasts that are updated monthly or even weekly. Create a “priority budget” that focuses on essential spending. This insight helps you decide whether to adjust budgets or wait it out. This allows you to adjust for changes quickly.

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Planful

MARCH 24, 2016

Traditional spreadsheet-based budgeting and forecasting has numerous limitations and is often prone to error. Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting with Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). Dynamic businesses need to streamline the budgeting cycle, while improving accuracy.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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CFO Thought Leader

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Predictability means setting realistic forecasts, tightening pipeline management, and increasing confidence in decision-making. He understands the pain and challenges of IT and security professionals who deal with exponential growth in machine datadata that expands at a 28% CAGR while budgets remain flat.

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CFO Plans

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In the fast-paced world of small business, precise financial forecasting is not merely advantageous—it’s essential. This startling statistic underscores the critical importance of accurate financial forecasting. Let’s dive into the essentials of financial forecasting and how it can revolutionize your business strategy.

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Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While workforce expenses have always monopolized the largest part of a company’s budget, companies still continue to cope with the lingering impact of the pandemic and dramatic changes to the workforce and workforce landscape, as well as with new concerns of inflation, recession, softening demand, and higher cost of capital.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

My goal is to leverage my experience and skills in finance and strategic management to drive growth, operational efficiency, and long-term success for an organization. First and foremost is financial acumen—understanding financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance is foundational.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 6, 2025

If I was to give you a little bit more color on what that means, we leverage demand forecasting to help businesses schedule the right number of employees at the right time. This is where we can automate shift creation based on sales data, budgets, and staffing needs.

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Future CFO

JULY 17, 2023

Challenging during volatility—but can’t be neglected Frequent and accurate cash forecasts are an organisation’s eyes and ears for maintaining cash visibility and liquidity while predicting cash flow amid a fickle market (and between a pandemic, geopolitical instability, and recession worries, fickle has become the baseline).

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E78 Partners

JANUARY 29, 2025

By leveraging the power of AI and automation, businesses can take control of their tech spending, reduce inefficiencies, and realize substantial cost savings. Forecasting and budgeting: AI can predict future technology expenses based on historical data, allowing organizations to make more accurate financial plans.

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CFO Share

JUNE 11, 2024

Accurate financial forecasting is crucial for small businesses, but developing and updating forecasts can be time-consuming, frustrating, and ultimately inaccurate. Precise forecasts provide the roadmap for future growth, but most small companies spin their wheels developing and maintaining forecasts.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 8, 2025

For instance, when inflation rises, some businesses instinctively slash budgets across the board. Cutting this budget may save money in the short term, but it risks creating a skills gap that hinders future growth. Leverage Technology for Efficiency In the face of economic challenges, efficiency becomes critical.

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Centage

MARCH 7, 2023

At Centage, we’re committed to equipping finance teams to meet this challenge by providing automated, cloud FP&A software solutions that make it easy to perform the detailed, bottom-up budgeting and sophisticated scenario analysis needed to spot risks and opportunities early. Security, in the cloud and on-premise, is of utmost importance.

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