The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

By incorporating their insights into your financial models, you can improve sales forecasts and spot exciting growth opportunities. In FP&A, teaming up with finance and accounting means they can engage more strategically with their non-financial colleagues, boosting the overall financial understanding of the organization.

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CFO Simplified

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The CFO’s time is primarily spent with analytics, diving into the “whys” of the numbers, the direction of the company’s performance, the factors that bring improvement, and what that improvement could look like. You can’t improve a company by moving numbers around on the income statement or balance sheet. What is Accounting? .

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of relying on a single forecast, consider creating multiple financial models that reflect best-case, worst-case, and moderate scenarios. Actionable Steps: Establish regular communication with your top customers and suppliers, ensuring you understand their financial health and potential impacts on your business.

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Leverage Forecasting Communication Economics 52

Boston Startup CFO

JULY 10, 2016

TK: The ability to communicate your thinking and decision-making rationale is absolutely critical to success in any finance role. It is not just about building a fully integrated financial model and making a financial decision based on whether or not the output cell is green or red.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This interest solidified during her BCom studies, where she found satisfaction in analyzing financial statements and market trends. Guided by influential mentors, Thobile recognized that finance goes beyond numbers—it impacts decision-making that drives business and individual success. What sparked your interest in finance?

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BlueLight

AUGUST 21, 2020

While at PWC I started writing business plans and creating financial models for startups. For the first few years, I was building financial models for founders that were fundraising. Our service covers anything in the back office related to numbers. Communicate multiple runway scenarios.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. Of the many current responsibilities, I enjoy using financial data and providing the insights to influence operational and strategic decisions the most. Thinking beyond numbers and building trust Numbers are not everything to the business and management team.

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Planful

MARCH 16, 2016

The cloud also makes it easy to integrate operational and financial data, which increases accuracy and ensures forecasts are aligned with company goals. Advanced Modeling. Each department requires varying levels of detail in their financial models, and the dimensions will differ between departments.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

We emphasized the importance of communication, setting priorities, and the initial avoidance of hasty decisions. This involves regular communication, mutual respect for expertise, and an open-door policy for discussing challenges and opportunities. The CFO of Eco Innovate Inc.,

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

How do they connect operational metrics—for example, marketing metrics like CAC and conversion rates, or sales metrics like AE ramp time—to a financial model that flows through to the income statement, cash flow, and balance sheet? A CEO generally wants to avoid drilling down into the numbers at a granular level.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

How do they connect operational metrics—for example, marketing metrics like CAC and conversion rates, or sales metrics like AE ramp time—to a financial model that flows through to the income statement, cash flow, and balance sheet? A CEO generally wants to avoid drilling down into the numbers at a granular level.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Sales Finance Forecasting 52

BlueLight

JUNE 5, 2020

Either way, the business environment is changing rapidly and this typically means startup founders and their boards are communicating much more frequently than in a “business as usual” situation. The founder should also manage the number of people in the room. Ideally these observers tap into their network and expertise to add value.

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Future CFO

JUNE 13, 2022

Editor’s note: Finance executives could no longer succeed by focusing simply on numbers. Other female administrative leaders in SingHealth include Margaret Lee who holds dual roles as the Deputy Group CFO of SingHealth (regional health system and strategic finance) and the CEO of SingHealth Community Hospitals.

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Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

OnPlan is a financial modeling and forecasting tool built by financial planners and analysts. Instead of reaching out to your marketing, sales, and other departments for data inputs, and spreading your communication across various channels and sources, you can reach instant and total alignment. Customers success.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today. And fortunately for us, there were a number of large scale alternative asset managers, like Carlyle, that were looking to grow in private credit.

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