The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Fortunately, modern cash management solutions have stepped in to simplify these challenges, offering businesses the tools they need to stay on top of their finances. One of the major trends in this space is the ability to connect bank accounts seamlessly, providing real-time visibility into your financial status.

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2022

While spreadsheets have long reigned supreme as the foundation of budgeting and forecasting for many organizations, the shortcomings of this legacy, siloed tool have become too hard to ignore. Do we have the data we need readily available? Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process. Who should be involved?

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Did you know that 35% of organizations identify data quality and timeliness as significant barriers to effective financial planning and analysis (FP&A)? This issue hampers forecasting accuracy, risk management, and resource allocation. Bad data, inaccessible information, and outdated processes make FP&A more difficult.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 13, 2025

Now, picture the opposite: instant access to real-time financial insights, automated compliance checks, and AI-driven forecasts guiding your next move. This is the power of Financial Information Systems (FIS). From Spreadsheets to Smart Systems Traditionally, businesses used basic spreadsheets to manage their finances.

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Collectiv

JANUARY 24, 2025

Did you know that 96% of finance teams still rely on spreadsheets for planning and 93% rely on them for reporting? They function as both an analysis and data entry tool, making them a convenient choice for many finance teams. 60% of FP&A teams face moderate to significant challenges with reliable and accessible data.

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Centage

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This accessible program can accomplish various tasks, such as financial forecasting and budgeting. If your business has used Excel for financial forecasting, you may have found some challenges with the program. With these spreadsheets, you can store, organize and analyze valuable data.

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Future CFO

APRIL 3, 2023

While companies have been transforming their finance models over the last decade, Covid accelerated this process. With this shift to the cloud, companies have more data than ever at their fingertips – data ready to be analysed and potentially turned into valuable business insights.

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CFO Thought Leader

MARCH 3, 2025

Guillenwho led the automakers push for production scale and supply chain agilitybelieved a different path could better serve the company, but needed someone with operational and financial data at her fingertips. Read More Lets go talk to himjust you and me, Guillen said. Mytra | www.mytra.a

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Built with a spreadsheet-style interface, it provides businesses with a centralized financial planning solution, reducing reliance on manual data entry while enhancing automation and accuracy. Prophix is best suited for mid-sized and large enterprises that require a scalable, cloud-based financial solution. Who Its Meant For?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One industry that tends to be recession-resistant is finance. After all, people will always need financial services, whether investing their money , taking out loans, or managing their taxes. And while the finance industry has seen its share of ups and downs over the years, it generally bounces back fairly quickly after a downturn.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

With more payments and back-office workflows being digitized, companies have more data than ever before with which to work. For some finance professionals, it may seem an overwhelming task to make sense of financial data to understand where a company has been, where it is today and where it could be tomorrow.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 31, 2021

What does this mean to the finance and accounting team of 2022? According to Gartner , finance leaders anticipate a greater percentage of their time will be spent in improving flexibility of budgeting & forecasting (58%), closely followed by developing digital skills (56%) and redefining employee value proposition in hybrid environments.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Ashley Pater , general manager of Hedge Trackers LLC, a global accounting, consulting, and software services company focused on financial risk protection, owned by platform provider GTreasury says automation is improving FX risk visibility, transforming FX risk management from a reactive task to an operational imperative.

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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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E78 Partners

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Implement driver-based forecasting that links operational metrics to financial outcomes. Ensure FP&A leaders participate in performance reviews, business health assessments, and financial insights to enable more informed decision-making. Learn how leveraging financial analytics improves decision-making 3.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Editor’s note: GenAI adoption is touted to bring benefits to enterprises and their finance functions. IDC forecasts that the APAC GenAI market will grow by 85% CAGR from 2022 to 2027, with the financial services industry as one of the leading adopters.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Digital transformation has elevated the role of the finance function from financial steward to enabled. The extended COVID-19 pandemic has upped the ante in the race to finance agility. Source: Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) | 7th Global Corporate Reporting Survey | February 2021, EY. Best practices.

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

AI coupled with The Digitization of the Finance Function create powerful levers for today’s CFO. AI in the “Real World” While these powerful tools seem to have a near mastery of natural language communication, they are not necessarily designed to possess many of the skills required by finance and accounting professionals.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Numbers Never Lie but They Rarely Tell the Whole Story For too long, financial analysis has been seen as a back-office functionprocessing numbers, producing reports, and ensuring compliance. While these tasks are necessary, they barely scratch the surface of what finance professionals can bring to the table.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

At the FutureCFO conferences in Manila, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, at least half (perhaps more) of the finance professionals attending the local conferences raised their hands when asked who were using spreadsheets. The complexity of data management grows in tandem with a company's size.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

At the start of 2020, chief financial officers and their finance teams were going about business as normal, developing forecasts on a yearly or periodic basis. Forecasting has always been a critical workflow for organizations, a strategy to guide growth trajectories and chart progress toward the goals of the enterprise.

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A finance software stack is a list of top solutions that will produce the best results for finance teams. Finance is responsible for a large number of critical operations in a business. Here are the 7 best finance software solutions broken down into different categories: 1) Accounting. Low implementation times.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In a recent conversation with PYMNTS, Payference Founder and CEO Prashant Kumar said these conflicting B2B payment strategies aren't the only cash flow challenge finance leaders face today. Most of the companies I talk to in the middle market will use one of the big ERPs and invariably pull the data into Excel. Many Moving Parts.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This is in the aim of producing timely financial data and other outputs, such as visualisations. Skills needed In terms of the skills people need in these positions, APQC says any finance professional must have the required accounting or actuarial know-how and related technical skills to do the job.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One important part of budgeting is forecasting predicting how much money will come in and go out in the future. This isnt always easy, but looking at past financial data and market trends can help create more accurate estimates. After the budget is created, it needs approval from senior management.

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Cube Software

MAY 20, 2024

Why spring cleaning is essential to finance Spring cleaning your financial data is more than a routine check—it's a critical practice that ensures healthy, efficient finance operations.

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Future CFO

JUNE 24, 2024

It took me years to be skilled in financial planning and analysis. Not every finance professional can be sharp enough to detect key highlights and provide analysis for the financial statements. The budget and forecast should reflect the Company’s plans, visions, expectations and educated guesses on the market trends.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Consumer Bank Chief Digital Officer Mike Naggar said the FI aims to provide customers "a choice, convenience and control of their financial data. Finantier Joins Y Combinator With Open Finance Model. WEX Talks Bank Partnerships To Advance B2B Payments.

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Collectiv

AUGUST 18, 2022

To succeed in a highly competitive business landscape, enterprises need a robust financial planning and forecasting strategy. Why Planning and Forecasting are Critical for Enterprises. Financial planning and forecasting go far beyond just day-to-day budgeting.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

BlackLine recently published a report titled, Finance & Accounting: in a Post-COVID World: Navigating the Changing Landscape. FutureCFO’s discussions with finance leaders in Asia identified similar conditions. Smagh opined that some of the concerns had to do with the years of the approach of work within the finance function. “As

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The financial landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, driven by big data, globalisation, and digitisation. The pressure on finance leaders to deliver strategic insights and ensure compliance is mounting in this dynamic environment. The increased workload can hobble finance team productivity and limit their scope of analysis.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

And while the latest tools of the trade—artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—promise to make tasks such as liquidity forecasting, cash management, and risk management easier, they come with their own complications and tie the treasury team even more closely into management’s strategic planning.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

In navigating the current world that is ever-changing, evolving constantly with various technological advancements that almost always force their way in to day-to-day routines of organisations, it is a no-brainer that the Finance function has shifted its focus on artificial intelligence for some time now.

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CFO Share

MAY 10, 2024

In fact, I never forecast cash flow without bookkeeping help – their insights are too valuable to ignore. By leveraging the detailed financial data they maintain, you can create a 13-week cash flow forecast that provides valuable insights into your upcoming cash obligations and helps you make better-informed decisions.

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

Major priorities over the next one to two years: We are not surprised that Cash-Flow Forecasting comes out on top when the COVID crisis has been hitting us for the past year. The uncertainties surrounding the economy explain the difficulty in producing reliable and accurate forecasts. Next comes the use of very promising API’s (i.e.,

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Centage

JULY 26, 2022

To survive and thrive in the current corporate environment, you need to have more financial data than the competition. The goal is to gather the necessary information to forecast your cash flow quickly, correctly, and frequently. However, you can also create a cash flow forecast that covers weeks or months.

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