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Nail Your 2025 Forecast: 5 Ways to Align Sales and Budgeting

Focus CFO

Heading into 2025, accurate sales forecasting is more critical than ever. Economic uncertainties and rapid technological shifts make it essential to have a crystal-clear picture of your revenue pipeline. Here are five key ways to align your sales forecasting and budgeting processes for success in the year ahead.

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Financial Forecasting for Small Businesses: Plan with Precision

CFO Plans

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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Investment rebound underpins India’s growth recovery: Report

CFO News Room

Oxford Economics said the government capex has led the recovery so far, but fiscal constraints limit its ability to keep driving investment. It further said structural shifts, such as digitisation and decarbonisation, do provide tremendous investment opportunities. “A per cent in 2012-2019, from 7.2 per cent in 2004-2011.

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The role of automation in financial planning, forecasting

Future CFO

Conversely, shifting economic conditions such as an oncoming recession or other shocks that stimulate rapid downsizing may signal the need for greater investment in the accuracy and reliability of financial plans, budgets, and projections.

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3%: Great Depression, GFC, 1970s & 2020s?

Barry Ritholtz

At least if you do forecasts for market returns over the next decade (lol), you may see incredible similarities. In other words, if you were forecasting 10-year returns of 3% annually, you are also forecasting an economic shitstorm of rare and historic proportions. If you are a strategist at Goldman Sachs , then a lot.

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Cash-Flow Forecasting remains KING

Simply Treasury

“If you have to forecast, forecast often” (Edgar R. Need for reliable forecasts. Nobody could deny the importance of having accurate and reliable Cash-Flow Forecasts (CFF). Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. So, what are the keys to good forecasting?

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World Bank ups India's growth forecast for FY25 to 7% due to rising private consumption

CFO News

The World Bank has raised India's economic growth forecast to 7% for the fiscal year ending in March 2025. The central bank maintained inflation forecasts and highlighted a resilient domestic growth outlook driven by private consumption and investment. This is up from April's 6.6%