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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Centage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When it comes to business budgeting and planning, traditional spreadsheets are labor-intensive, prone to errors, and static, so it can be difficult to get a clear view on your current and future financial position. Accounting has evolved quite a bit since the early days of double-entry systems and general ledgers. Learn More.

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2022

How can we plan for an uncertain economy? Freed from the shackles of a siloed, legacy tool like Excel and managed instead within strategic FP&A solutions, budgets become living, evolving documents that finance teams can use as an in-house planning tool, updating monthly, quarterly or on an ad-hoc basis. Who should be involved?

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Future CFO

AUGUST 1, 2023

More than 50% of mid-size enterprises plan to automate analytics/BI through cloud applications in the next 12 – 18 months, highlighting the demand for financial reporting and analytics capabilities. This trend is driven by the need for real-time data analysis and insights to make informed business decisions.

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Centage

OCTOBER 3, 2022

These obstacles can become even more pronounced as your business grows and your financial planning gets increasingly complex. With these spreadsheets, you can store, organize and analyze valuable data. For example, you may use spreadsheets to plan your fiscal year or maintain your client sales list.

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Centage

JULY 25, 2023

At Centage, we deliver an industry-leading solution known as Planning Maestro® to businesses like yours to overcome the challenges that Excel spreadsheets present. Highly Personalized Many Excel users utilize spreadsheets for personal budgeting and financial planning. You can also review your results with and without adjustments.

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Budgeting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) General Ledger Forecasting 98

Centage

OCTOBER 3, 2022

These obstacles can become even more pronounced as your business grows and your financial planning gets increasingly complex. With these spreadsheets, you can store, organize and analyze valuable data. For example, you may use spreadsheets to plan your fiscal year or maintain your client sales list.

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