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 Bad data, inaccessible information, and outdated processes make FP&A more difficult.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

He concedes that AI has significantly transformed finance teams by automating processes, improving forecasting, and enhancing risk management, but he notes that its effectiveness depends on access to up-to-date data. The key is ensuring that the AI tools and solutions selected are the right fit," he notes.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 13, 2025

Financial Reports That Dont Age Like Milk: The Power of Real-Time Data Imagine running a business where financial decisions feel like guessworkwaiting weeks for reports, struggling with outdated data, and constantly fearing human error. This is the power of Financial Information Systems (FIS).

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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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Navigator SAP

MARCH 11, 2022

Bookkeeping and financial tracking tend to get more complicated over time. The platform allows you to consolidate all of your financial data automatically and review it all on one dashboard. Your business profitability is hindered when you can’t accurately forecast supply and demand.

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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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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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Collectiv

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, automate a variance analysis report or create a simple budget forecasting dashboard to save time and improve accuracy. Centralize Financial Data Data silos are the enemy of efficiency. This is particularly valuable for creating unified plans and reports based on consistent data.

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CFO Plans

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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. Conduct Regular Reviews: Financial forecasting is an ongoing process.

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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

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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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This is in the aim of producing timely financial data and other outputs, such as visualisations. Interpersonal skills are also important, as analysts and modelers can be tasked with communicating complex financial data to colleagues in other functions or locations, or with quickly educating senior leaders.

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Spreadym

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Budgeting and forecasting in business are both financial planning tools used by businesses, but they serve different purposes and have distinct characteristics. Here's an overview of the key differences between budgeting and forecasting. They are meant to provide a current and dynamic view of expected financial performance.

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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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Cube Software

MAY 1, 2023

What is financial forecasting? Financial forecasting is a specific process where businesses take financial data from the past, apply it to the current business environment, and aim to make predictions about a company’s future financial outcomes.

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CFO Talks

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Forecasting Tools, choosing the Right Fit for Your Business As a CFO, you know that forecasting is crucial to business success. Whether you’re anticipating future cash flows, preparing for market shifts, or managing your company’s resources, having the right forecasting tool can make all the difference.

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CFO Talks

APRIL 17, 2025

Critically, CFOs must move beyond siloed financial data and begin synthesising a broader spectrum of intelligence. The most progressive finance teams are investing in business intelligence capabilities, leveraging dashboards, scenario models, and rolling forecasts to guide resource allocation in real time.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Whatever they use, he said, these companies need the ability to manage and forecast their cash, and they do so in a very different way than other businesses. Before SaaS took off as a cloud-based, subscription industry, software companies really struggled to make accurate financial forecasts, he noted.

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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. You don’t have the right team in place.

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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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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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CFO Share

MARCH 23, 2021

A rolling 12-month forecast projects financial performance over a 12-month time horizon using the “add/drop” approach to forecasting. Unlike a budget or calendar year forecast, a rolling 12-month forecast adds one month to the forecast period each time a month is closed so that you are continuously forecasting for 12 months.

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 5, 2025

With over 200 integrations (think ERP and CRM systems), its built to streamline financial data management, budgeting, forecasting, and more. Real-time data consolidation and anomaly detection. Robust automation for budgeting and forecasting. Automated dashboards and custom reports. Pros Native Excel integration.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Review existing data: Look at your company’s historical trends, current financial data, and market research. Even if the data isn’t perfect, it can give you a starting point. Use visuals, like charts or dashboards, to explain financial data. Ask questions: What information do you have now?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Managing financial data across a vast array of platforms, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, accounting and ERP systems, creates a challenging environment in which to understand cash positions and forecast cash inflows and outflows. Many Moving Parts. That's error-prone, very static, and takes a lot of time.".

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Future CFO

AUGUST 23, 2019

The days of manual, spreadsheet-based budgeting, planning and forecasting processes are numbered.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

To present a consolidated view, this often requires the integration of data from multiple sources, such as ERP systems, forecast and planning processes, and even local-entity-level global finance team members. This interconnectedness ensures accurate, real-time financial insights. Connectivity goes beyond data aggregation.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

According to Terry Smagh , senior vice president & general manager, Asia Pacific & Japan, BlackLine, the company undertook the study is to understand and recognise the critical role that financial data plays in informing businesses about strategy and continuity, the poor visibility if any, and the lack of real-time access to data.

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Jedox Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is not uncommon to find other, more narrow, definitions for SPM: Improvement of sales personnel performance; streamline sales and sales-operations data; monitoring and measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of sales processes. Modern FP&A departments work closely with other departments across the organization as a business partner.

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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. Collaboration is key to creating a budget that is both realistic and useful.

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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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Spreadym

JUNE 6, 2023

Financial forecasting refers to the process of estimating or predicting future financial outcomes and performance based on historical data, trends, and assumptions. Financial forecasting is a critical aspect of financial planning and decision-making for businesses, organizations, and individuals.

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The Finance Weekly

MAY 25, 2022

Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting. A company’s plan, budget, and forecast are usually talked about all together, whether it be in the boardroom, in a company goal-setting sheet, or in general talk about FP&A. Finance leaders and executives build teams and make decisions based on the financial data and the goals that result from it.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

A new report from Commonwealth Bank suggests small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Australia are struggling to make use of the financial data at hand. Reports Monday (Sept. Small businesses, in particular, are usually time poor, and not all have the right tools to support effective business planning.”.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The real value lies not in reporting the past but in questioning, interpreting, and challenging financial data to drive better decisions for the future. Financial reports are produced the same way they have always been. Financial professionals must develop strong analytical skills to extract meaningful insights from data.

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Collectiv

MAY 22, 2023

We live in a data-driven world. Accurate and timely business intelligence (BI) is critical to effective planning and forecasting. But organizations face many challenges in their data journey because every facet requires specialized knowledge and expertise to devise the best solution. Collectiv is like a BI Swiss Army knife.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The list of typical FP&A activities usually includes planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, management reporting and performance management. Forecasting is the practice of making regular predictions about the company’s expected future results based on the past and present data as well as on the anticipated future events.

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