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5 Excel-heavy Pain Points still Dragging down finance teams in 2025

The Finance Weekly

Problem 1: Using Old and Cumbersome Excel Models Many of us have developed a financial reporting process that uses workarounds for limitations in our ERP software and to ensure we can meet our deadlines without accidentally breaking something. These legacy financial models typically appear overly complicated.

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5 Accounting Challenges Startups Face and How to Help Them Thrive

The CFO College

If the startup is already operating, have your clients invoice customers as soon as possible. If they have to rely on capital raising, it’s hard for companies to attract private or institutional investors in competitive markets without a great accountant and strong financial model.

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Best Finance Software for 2024

The Finance Weekly

While personal finance applications often focus on budgeting and tracking investments, business finance applications are enriched with additional functionalities, such as invoicing and inventory management, to support a wider range of business operations. Pricing Datarails offers customized pricing based on the needs of the user.

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1001: Building Teams and Breaking Boundaries | Julien Lafouge, CFO, Spendesk

CFO Thought Leader

With global uncertainties looming, he built a resilient financial model that ensured the company’s survival. However, it serves businesses way beyond this by addressing all spend management challenges in order to allow users to manage their invoices and payments, approve workflows, and so on.

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Finance vs. Accounting

CFO Simplified

Accounting teams are responsible for: Invoicing. Recording and paying accounts payable invoices. Invoicing and collections. CFOs are part of the company’s internal finance team just as bankers, and CPAs, are part of the company’s external finance team. What is Accounting? . Receiving and posting cash. Reconciling accounts.

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What is a 13 Week Cash Flow Forecast?

CFO Share

In general, your business should use a thirteen week cash flow model if: You have less than 3 months’ cash runway or other liquidity issues. You receive numerous calls from vendors about late invoices. The CFO and management meets to review the financial model, identify and remedy short term liquidity issues.

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The 5 best budgeting software solution to increase efficiency of the business

Spreadym

Spreadym combines the features of a complex corporate performance management system for automating operational and financial processes in enterprises and Excel spreadsheets. Users can create complex budgets that combine the information from all company division in one financial model that is related to the operating results of the enterprise.