CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Additionally, the AFE is used for performance tracking, allowing us to compare actual project costs with budgeted costs, learn from completed projects, and improve future budgeting processes. Our CSR efforts are guided by defined policies and a dedicated budget.

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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.

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Spreadym

MAY 31, 2023

Strategic planning for business is the process of defining an organization's long-term objectives and determining the most effective ways to achieve them. Key components of strategic planning for business Vision and Mission: Clarifying the organization's purpose, values, and long-term aspirations.

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Cube Software

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The role of strategic planning in SMBs A well-defined strategic plan helps SMBs focus their resources efficiently. It guides decision-making processes, from hiring and budgeting to marketing and product development.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Did you know that 47% of businesses still rely on spreadsheets for financial planning, despite the risks of errors and inefficiencies? Workday Adaptive Planning aims to solve this problem by offering a cloud-based Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) solution with AI-powered forecasting, budgeting, and workforce planning tools.

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CFO Simplified

APRIL 15, 2024

Are you missing Strategic Planning? Let’s quickly get through the first three items in any strategic plan. The market isn’t static. Financial Planning: Develop a robust financial plan. That plan will include not just looking at the future, but also planning for the present.

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Spreadym

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Collaborative budgeting is an approach to financial planning and management that involves the active participation of multiple individuals or teams within an organization. It goes beyond the traditional top-down budgeting process, where senior management sets financial targets and allocates resources.

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CFO Simplified

JANUARY 23, 2025

Reexamine your budget Its easy to get caught up in daily operations, but a comprehensive review of your business budget is essential. Use these insights to project your financial performance based on your strategic plan. Take time to analyze current sales, expenses, and net income.

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Spreadym

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Budget preparation is the process of creating a detailed financial plan that outlines an organization's expected income and expenses for a specific period, typically for a fiscal year. Here are the key steps involved in budget preparation: Define Objectives and Goals : Begin by establishing clear financial objectives and goals.

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Jedox Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are all good approaches, but SPM must be holistic and combine those approaches and offer better planning, forecasting, and control of different stages of sales processes. Connecting the dots. Data Silos – Sales data and financial data are separated, making reconciliation between those sources difficult.

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CFO Thought Leader

MARCH 11, 2025

Sullivan: 2X is rethinking the way enterprises structure and execute their marketing operations. Our founder and CEO, who was a CMO himself, saw firsthand how companies build large, expensive, and often inflexible marketing teams that struggle to keep up with rapid changes in technology. He knew there had to be a better way.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The retailer could see upside to expected profit in 2024 and 2025 as its strategic plan takes shape, according to the firm. Snap had a rough 2022 as a slowing economy led many companies to slash their digital ad budgets. Advanced Micro Devices — Shares of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices jumped 12.6%

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

First and foremost is financial acumen—understanding financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance is foundational. However, transitioning to a CFO role requires a broader skill set beyond technical expertise. Strategic thinking is crucial.

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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. Moreover, the importance of storytelling in data intelligence cannot be overstated.

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Centage

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Your teams have spent months creating, adjusting, re-creating, and finalizing your budget for the next year. You’re finally ready to bring your annual budget presentation to the board. Is the board going to care that you’ve allocated 20% of IT’s budget for training? Or that accounting has planned $5,000 for a new printer?

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CFO Simplified

JULY 22, 2022

Reexamine your annual budget. A business plan isn’t something that you just create when you start a company, it’s a strategic plan for how you’re going to manage and grow over the next two, five, and 10 years. The pandemic changed plans for nearly every business. Update your strategic plan.

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Focus CFO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Building a powerful annual budget that aligns with your company's vision and strategic plans is crucial for success, especially as we head into 2025. This year presents unique challenges and opportunities, making a robust budgeting process more critical than ever. The budget must be closely aligned with these goals.

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Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

The Shift to Modern FP&A Unprecedented cost pressures, along with regulatory and reimbursement issues and diverse revenue sources, all add complexity to the budgeting and planning process for healthcare organizations. Accelerate your budgeting cycles and minimize the risk of data errors. Generate detailed personnel plans.

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Spreadym

AUGUST 2, 2023

The basics of the corporate budgeting Corporate budgeting is the process by which a company or organization plans and allocates its financial resources to achieve its strategic objectives. These goals may include revenue targets, cost reduction objectives, expansion plans, and profitability targets.

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Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In reality, it’s more science than art, and should be a critical component of management’s operational planning – especially during uncertain times. So today, workforce planning has never been more challenging to manage as these factors add pressure to effectively executing workforce planning and budgeting.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 8, 2023

To handle these challenges well, it's crucial to plan carefully and use efficient tools for managing finances. Budgeting software can greatly help by , automating financial tasks , making processes more efficient, and leading the business toward long-term success. Why You Should Use Budgeting Software for Your Business?

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Many employee advisors gravitate toward service-oriented roles; this preference often stems from their initial motivation for entering the profession – wanting to help clients or perform the more analytical aspects of investing and financial planning. Rarely do they enter the field to be in a sales or marketing role.

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Spreadym

JUNE 8, 2023

Planning, budgeting and forecasting for a business are three distinct financial management tools used in business, each serving a different purpose. Key differences between planning, budgeting and forecasting for a business Here are key difference between planning, budgeting and forecasting for a business.

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Spreadym

MARCH 12, 2023

Categorization is important because it helps company define items for planning and budgeting more easily. Most of companies for their strategic planning or long-term budgeting don’t need very detailed structure of the assortment of goods. It’s rather then enough to aggregate it on more general level.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The CFO role is multi-faceted and includes everything from financial planning and analysis to business budgeting, financial decision-making, and risk management. Most financial managers have previous experience working in market analysis and forecasting positions similar to this one. Budget Analyst. Investment Banker.

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Spreadym

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Financial planning typically includes the following key components: Setting Financial Goals: Identify and prioritize your short-term and long-term financial objectives, such as saving for retirement, buying a home, paying off debt, or funding your children's education. This metric helps assess the effectiveness of marketing and sales efforts.

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 26, 2019

Market forces compel the change away from top-down, control-oriented hierarchies to flexible systems that highlight responsiveness, inclusiveness, and risk-taking. Our business partners, including the CEO, do not have time for a lengthy budget process and outdated forecasts because the market is moving quickly.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Access to a sufficient level of detail and at the same time ability to see the big picture predetermine the main goal or even the mission of the FP&A function – to support and drive the right strategic decisions in the company. Planning relates to determining the company’s short-term (1-year) and long-term (3-5 years) objectives.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 20, 2023

Growth: likely a key point in any strategic plan and something that is the top of mind for many leaders. However, many nonprofits are missing out on a key component of modern growth: marketing. In the nonprofit realm, marketing tends to come as an afterthought, and as something that limited resources shouldn’t be devoted to.

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VCFO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Alternatively, if expenses are running over budget, are there line items that can be cut or deferred to pull overall expenses back in line with budget? Tax Planning is Beneficial and Essential A wise person once said that failing to plan is planning to fail. It is important to ensure that is happening.

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Planful

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I recently connected with Steve to learn more about his research and the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable. John: Steve, can you start by talking about the mission of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT)? The BBRT is a member-based consortium of companies who have joined together to find better ways to plan and control operations.

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

With the fluctuating market, increased regulations, fickle consumers, and rapidly changing business models, managing business finances can present a lot of difficulties. . Why Is Budgeting Such a Challenge for Finance Today? The challenges with the budgeting process are both internal and external.

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The Finance Weekly

MAY 5, 2024

When it comes to sales planning, it's all about creating a flexible strategy that your sales team can rely on to hit those sales goals within a set time frame. This plan covers everything from activities and target markets to budget, resources, and market positioning.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the evolving role of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), mastering risk management, budgeting, and forecasting tools is crucial. These competencies not only strengthen the financial backbone of an organisation but also prepare it to navigate through uncertainties and market volatility.

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CFO Share

JULY 16, 2024

Strategic Planning and Forecasting CFOs create long-term financial plans and forecasts. They analyze market trends and economic data to predict future financial performance and guide strategic decision-making. They ensure these decisions align with the company’s strategic objectives and financial goals.

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Planful

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Peter Mahoney, Founder and CEO of Plannuh, joined me on the Being Planful podcast to dive into the often fraught relationship between Marketing and Finance. Peter’s background is actually in marketing, where he began his career as a marketing rep for IBM. Marketing organizes things in broad themes and campaigns.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 27, 2024

This episode of Planning Aces sheds light on the critical role financial leadership and strategic planning plays in guiding companies through turbulent times and the importance of balancing short-term opportunities with long-term strategic planning. Konold managed this surge and the subsequent market normalization.

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