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Everything You Wanted to Know about FP&A Best Practices

Fpanda Club

Best practice in the budget and planning process, PWC 2017 7. Preparing for the next level of financial planning and analysis, APQC, AFP, 2019 Some of the most interesting metrics include: Processes Annual budget cycle time lasts 25 days for top performers with 4 versions of budgets produced before final approval.

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Beyond Budgeting – Are You Ready?

Planful

A growing number of organizations are moving away from the annual budgeting process and finding better ways to plan and control their resources. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the 2015 Beyond Budgeting Round Table Conference. There, I heard case study presentations from a few organizations who have moved “beyond budgeting.”

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Plan for anything, be ready for everything

Future CFO

The result is undesired is that teams are often unable to deliver needed plans, budgets, forecasts, reports and value-added analysis when asked. It offers visibility into plans, budgets and forecasts, with rapid what-if scenario modelling and profitability analysis.

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Making the Business Case for Cloud-Based Planning and Reporting

Planful

Are you ready to upgrade to a cloud-based EPM solution that can help you spend more time on value-added analysis and less time on data collection and fixing Excel errors? Reducing Reliance on Spreadsheets for Budgeting, Planning, and Reporting. Lack of security sending budgeting spreadsheets via email.

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6 Things IT Executives Need to Know About Cloud-Based EPM

Planful

I’m not saying that corporate budgeting, planning, forecasting, and reporting aren’t important processes – these are certainly critical to the business. Cloud-based EPM software can help streamline key processes, improve accuracy of plans and reports, and make Finance more productive and efficient.

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Top 3 Reasons EPM Is Moving to the Cloud

Planful

To support this, EPM includes the following management processes: Budgeting, planning, forecasting, and modeling. Accelerate planning, consolidation, and reporting to deliver results faster and shift more time to value-added analysis. Consolidating results and closing the books on a periodic basis.