E78 Partners

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Yet, many PE-backed companies struggle with financial planning and analysis (FP&A), which creates barriers to achieving growth targets, cash flow clarity, and operational alignment. Executives rely on FP&A for backward-looking analysis rather than proactive scenario planning. Use operational KPIs (e.g.,

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo In this edition of our CFO Spotlight series, we are featuring Rofhiwa Irene Singo, an accomplished finance leader whose journey is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and impactful leadership. Share your favorite leadership lesson. How do you balance your personal and professional life?

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 8, 2025

Understand Your Teams Starting Point Before planning for growth, its essential to know where your team currently stands. This understanding helps you identify training needs and create tailored development plans. Not only does this make your department more efficient, but it also builds problem-solving and leadership skills.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 22, 2024

Types of Data for Nonprofits The types of data a nonprofit might use for decision-making can vary between organizations. Most nonprofits will use at least one of three types of data: Financial data: Financial data includes any data relating to the finances of the organization, such as revenue or expense data.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The report noted that 43% of respondents to the study say their organisations have become more focused on scenario planning and stress testing as a result of the pandemic. We should start implementing and scaling automation to help increase the accuracy and reliability of financial data. Thinking automation is passe. “We

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It allows businesses and organisations to predict future income, expenses, and cash flow, ensuring that they remain financially stable and prepared for challenges. However, forecasting is not just about guessing numbersit is a structured process that relies on analysing past data, considering present trends, and planning.

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E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Under these pressures, one aspect often underestimated is the power of strategic budget planning. It’s not just about managing numbers—it’s about aligning financial strategies with business goals to unlock value at every stage of the investment cycle. This is where scenario and sensitivity analyses come into play.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Plan for Seasonal Fluctuations : Map out expected income and expenses by month to anticipate and prepare for lean periods. Engage Department Heads : Involve program managers and department heads in the budgeting process to give them ownership over their areas financial planning.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Yvonne’s career in finance and leadership has positioned her as an influential figure, holding executive roles since 2005 and contributing significantly to MINT’s growth and innovation. Then I will look at emails and plan so by 8am the day is ready to go. Prefer workout in the evenings What sparked your interest in finance?

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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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Collectiv

MARCH 5, 2025

Welcome to a brand new episode of Modernized Planning, where were turning traditional planning strategies on their head, in favor of a more modern, efficient, and connected approach. deFacto Planning helps businesses unify financial and operational planning into a single, high-performance platform.

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CFO Leadership

JANUARY 5, 2024

Businesses can use it to generate product descriptions, performance goals with employee-specific target metrics, and narrative reporting to accompany financial data. More than 80 countries already require it, per tax compliance provider Avalara, and other areas, including the European Union, have plans for broad adoption.

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E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Download our free budget planning checklist For private equity firms, success isn’t just about acquiring companies; it’s about transforming them. Under these pressures, one aspect often underestimated is the power of strategic budget planning. This is where scenario and sensitivity analyses come into play.

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The Finance Weekly

JUNE 17, 2024

Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is important in automating all of the manual tasks in the finance department and giving everyone greater insights into the data. Planful is one of these top FP&A software solutions , and this article will review their features, reviews, and customer feedback.

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VCFO

MAY 17, 2024

v360 goes beyond traditional financial analysis and simple snapshots. Evaluation of 154 core data points across six dimensions and in-depth dialogue between you and a CFO steeped in all aspects of business optimization and strategic planning provides a holistic, insightful, and unbiased exploration of your company’s DNA.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Afternoons are a mix of strategic planning sessions and deep dives into emerging technologies, particularly Generative AI. As a result, users can complete tasks like reconciling accounts, forecasting, while analysing financial data can be completed with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Lunch is a quick but mindful break.

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Jedox Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

While that wouldn’t make much sense these days, think about revenue planning, data, and processes. Sales Performance Management (SPM) is a unified approach to analyze, plan, and optimize sales processes withing an organization. In this eBook about 360° Planning you can learn more about the shift to xP&A.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In the coming year, CFOs will be expected to focus on helping their companies build resilience – whether through critical decision-making backed by a real-time view of financial data, or ensuring competitive advantage with digital transformation and sustainability initiatives. Steering companies through the economic volatility ahead.

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Centage

MAY 3, 2022

The Planning Maestro App for QuickBooks Online Advanced provides a two-way sync of financial data between QuickBooks Online Advanced and Planning Maestro, resulting in improved efficiency, fewer manual processes, and greater confidence in data quality and integrity. Better Communicate Your Financial Story.

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

AI driven automation is expected to extend to more complex tasks such as, audits, risk management, and financial planning and analysis. With a large and diverse enough data set (e.g. His expertise spans financial leadership and strategy, finance automation, data science, and operational efficiency.

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Centage

JUNE 7, 2022

Along with tracking cash flow and providing timely information, the best CFOs are strategizers, analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses from a financial perspective and helping direct decision making. In the age of COVID, strong financial leadership is more important than ever.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Among these are the changes that were faced in the financial planning and analysis function. Meanwhile, for Tan, making quick and informed decisions using available financial data marked the most significant change to the FP&A function following the pandemic. Vena Energy is a finalist in the same category.

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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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Collectiv

MARCH 14, 2022

With such overwhelming amounts of data churned out daily—alongside ever-changing data regulations implemented globally—data governance is a course that every organization must learn to navigate. Developing a successful data governance program to accelerate data-driven digital transformation is no small task.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 25, 2024

Pichette's notable contributions to Alphabet's transition from Google improved its operational efficiency and leadership in sustainability initiatives. His expertise and leadership make him a valuable asset as CFO. Financial Insights Pichette has an estimated net worth of at least $128 million as of March 25, 2024.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

For instance, GenAI can help automate mundane tasks such as expense tracking, flag data anomalies, and deliver data-driven recommendations for risk assessments and resource planning. NP: Training AI models to understand and interpret complex financial data accurately requires dedicated time and resources.

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Jedox Finance

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In our previous blog post “ Proven AI solutions for modern planning “, we shared detailed insights from Dr. Rolf Gegenmantel, our Chief Marketing & Product Officer, into data management and data integration as a basis for advanced analytics and automated sales forecasts at Mitsui Chemicals Europe.

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Jedox Finance

JANUARY 23, 2020

A new calendar year can be a great time to take a renewed, fresh look at your business planning and performance management. In a perfect world, we would like an EPM system that manages organization-wide planning, reporting and analysis. Collection of organization-wide financial and non-financial data.

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Centage

MAY 8, 2023

Your role is critical and complex as you know and understand the financial operations of your organization inside and out – and are ultimately responsible. You are a master of your companyʼsʼ financial data – and there is so much of it to manage. Plan to work with them early in your board presentation development stage.

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Future CFO

JULY 14, 2022

“It is about understanding why ESG matters, what it means for you as an organisation, before developing strategies and plans around that.”. Today, we have tools enabling firms to monetise non-financial data and integrate them with financial data directly into their back-office enterprise resource planning (ERP) structures.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Robert E Parker "As we look forward to the developments in AI, finance leaders will be in a better position to uncover hidden opportunities and risks and step beyond using structured financial data by utilising data from across organisational silos enhanced with data from outside the organisation."

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CFO Plans

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Outsourced CFO Services: The Financial Superpower Outsourced CFO services aren’t just a nice-to-have for tech companies—they’re a must. These services bring strategic financial wizardry to the table, offering insights and leadership that fuel both growth and innovation.

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The CFO College

AUGUST 31, 2021

Help your startup clients stay cash flow positive with good budgeting and planning services. They look for strong and experienced leadership, a good track record, a product that solves a problem and fills a high demand, and intellectual property that has a ton of value and is disruptive. And much more. Tax law is highly complicated.

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Jedox Finance

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This placed an acute spotlight on planning agility. Many pre-crisis business assumptions and planning models became outmoded overnight. Taking learnings from this, CFOs must double down on digital transformation initiatives to improve the depth, accuracy, and speed of planning. Build for broad and deep data integration.

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Jedox Finance

APRIL 8, 2021

It also needs to be based on insights from data. Effective decision-making must be based on data analysis, decisions (planning) and the execution and evaluation of the decisions and its impact (forecasting). we may need to integrate the financial data with data from the CRM. The Link between BI and EPM.

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Centage

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Financial management can be a significant challenge for multi-location medical facilities. As multi-site healthcare businesses grow and evolve, the demand for advanced financial planning and budgeting solutions shifts from being a “nice to have” to presenting a crucial need for attaining business objectives.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Chinese financial regulators called Ma and his leadership team to answer questions on the eve of the company’s stock market debut. New regulations instituted in September 2020 mandate that tech firms set up a separate holding company for financial services and products.

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