April, 2015

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The Shift to Predictive Accounting

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In the last few decades, management accountants have made significant strides in improving the utility and accuracy of the costs they calculate and report. The gap is being caused by a shift in managers’ needs – from just needing to know what things cost (such as a product cost) and what happened – to a need for detailed information about what their future costs and profits will be and why.

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EPM – CPM – BPM: What’s in a Name?

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Business Performance Management (BPM). Corporate Performance Management (CPM). Financial Performance Management (FPM). Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). Many practitioners and experts in the industry have positioned all of these labels as basically meaning the same thing. They see each as a process and software system designed to link strategies to plans and execution.

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Financial Forecasting vs. Projections

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