Centage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As you start your financial planning for 2023 and beyond, follow these steps to solidify your three-year strategic plan and boost the odds of achieving your business’ goals. If you want to forecast your financial future, start by looking back at past performance. Financial planning comes with numerous challenges.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Political shifts, rising inflation, and unpredictable market trends are forcing businesses to rethink their financial planning strategies. Prophix aims to address these challenges by offering advanced, cloud-native financial planning solutions. Investment Planning Evaluate potential investments through dynamic modeling.

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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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Centage

AUGUST 8, 2023

Excel requires a lot of specialized knowledge and managing financials within it can be particularly brittle and unreliable. Multiple Users and Sharing Spreadsheets In the early days of a company’s life cycle, it can easily set up its financials in a single workbook on a single budget spreadsheet.

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CFO Plans

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s dynamic financial landscape, Discover Strategic Financial Planning Solutions that are more than a necessity; they’re the backbone of sustainable business growth. Additionally, ROI analysis tools play a crucial role in evaluating the success of financial strategies and investments.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

(Of course there are many non-financial considerations, but for this blog we’re focusing on adding up the costs.). How do you weigh and plan for the costs of such a change? That should help you consider all the moving parts as you plan your strategy. Base case: Workforce planning template for keeping the office open.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Enhancing Cross-Departmental Collaboration for Accurate Insights Audits impact more than just the finance team; for an accurate, holistic view, the audit process should engage departments like HR, legal, and financial planning and analysis (FP&A).

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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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Lime Light

JANUARY 29, 2025

Responsible decision-making in the fast-paced business environment requires rigorous analysis, evaluation of previous results, and a thorough examination of current financial health.

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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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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Under this familiar process, financial personnel export data from their organization's software, typically the company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. One workaround found in cumbersome financial reporting processes includes using old legacy Excel-based financial models.

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Financial models might sound intimidating, but let’s break them down in a way that makes sense. Understanding how to calculate CapEx is essential for anyone looking to build reliable financial models, whether you're a seasoned CFO or just starting out in finance. What Is CapEx?

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis. Typical FP&A activities and responsibilities Financial planning and analysis is one of the pillars of the modern finance function. Planning relates to determining the company’s short-term (1-year) and long-term (3-5 years) objectives.

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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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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

From the financial side, I am heavily involved in the scoping of the AFE, ensuring all financial models, scenario planning, and required returns are accurately detailed. Balancing these demands requires careful planning and prioritization. This allowed us to identify areas that needed immediate attention.

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Spreadym

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The best Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) software typically offers a range of features designed to help organizations effectively manage their financial performance. Users can input data, make adjustments, and project future financial scenarios.

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Spreadym

JUNE 27, 2023

What is Financial Planning and Analysis or FP&A? FP&A is a process used by organizations to develop and manage their financial plans and make informed decisions based on financial analysis. What is Financial Planning and Analysis? Why Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is important?

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Centage

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The traditional budgeting and forecasting planning processes can be long and painful. The problems that occur downstream from inaccurate or incomplete plans and budgets ultimately impact financial performance and long-term success. The second step is to incorporate these drivers into the heart of the financial planning process.

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CFO Simplified

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As the end of the fiscal year comes into focus, it’s time to put together plans for the upcoming year. If you’ve put together annual strategic, operational, and financial plans previously, terrific. Most successful companies have an annual planning process to put together specific plans and goals for the upcoming year.

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Fpanda Club

APRIL 11, 2021

This article explores the most common myths surrounding the financial planning and analysis function, its key activities and outputs which many FP&A stakeholders believe in. In this case financial models and scenarios can be simplified based on the trade-off between details/level of accuracy and speed.

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Centage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As you start your financial planning for 2023 and beyond, follow these steps to solidify your three-year strategic plan and boost the odds of achieving your business’ goals. If you want to forecast your financial future, start by looking back at past performance. Financial planning comes with numerous challenges.

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Planning Cash Flow Forecasting Forecasting 52

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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Boston Startup CFO

APRIL 12, 2024

13-week Cash Flow Forecasting We offer a comprehensive and forward-looking approach to cash planning. Financial Modeling & Analysis We can provide you with a comprehensive understanding of your business's financial performance and future prospects.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

CFOs are telling their FP&A leaders that they need to improve flexibility of budgeting and forecasting, enable faster capital reallocation, and updated financial models to reflect rapidly changing business realities,” Pritika Bhattacharjee, vice president, research in the Gartner Finance practice, pointed out.

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Centage

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If your business has used Excel for financial forecasting, you may have found some challenges with the program. These obstacles can become even more pronounced as your business grows and your financial planning gets increasingly complex. You may be searching for an advanced solution that meets your business needs.

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 14, 2023

Scenario planning improves decisiveness in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world by providing a structured approach to view different ways the future may unfold based on current trends and assumptions. Monitor and update regularly Scenario planning is not a one-time exercise but an ongoing process.

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Jedox Finance

AUGUST 13, 2019

Transforming your FP&A plan will not be an easy task, but it must be addressed as it is a top priority for the CFO to better support delivering on the expectations from the CEO. These are also the attributes that’ll drive our transformation plan. What does the transformation plan look like? Increase efficiency everywhere.

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 19, 2023

An operational CFO optimizes performance by combining data from various departments with financial data. A strategic CFO focuses on creating long-term plans to achieve the company's goals. It involves analyzing financial statements and data from different business units.

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Spreadym

MAY 10, 2023

What-if analysis is a technique used in financial planning and decision-making business software to assess the potential outcomes of different scenarios or changes in variables. It involves evaluating the impact of various "what-if" situations on financial flows projections, business performance measures, or outcomes.

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Planful

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Excel is cheap, widely available, and contains innumerable calculations that make it useful for budgeting and planning. As most people have encountered, when you stare at a set of numbers for long enough, they eventually become jumbled, and tackling financial modeling on a spreadsheet makes it difficult to envision the end result.

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E78 Partners

JULY 19, 2023

As we approach the planning cycle for 2024, organizations are recognizing the immense value of harnessing the power of forecasting, planning, and analytics (FP&A). This entails developing a well-crafted plan and budget for 2024, which serves as a critical foundation for success.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This means going beyond spreadsheets and embracing tools that allow for deeper scenario planning, forecasting, and business intelligence reporting. Conclusion: A Mindset Shift for the Future of Finance Building a culture of insightful financial analysis is not about adding more reports or increasing the complexity of financial models.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

By leveraging specialized expertise, private equity consultants can quickly diagnose issues and implement strategies to improve profitability, optimize operations, or recalibrate growth plans. Overall, consultants provide essential support at any stage where strategic insight and operational enhancements can increase a company’s value.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

With in-depth analysis and careful planning, transaction service teams act as strategic partners throughout the deal process, ensuring each stage is optimized for success. Strategic Insight: Transaction services teams provide deep financial and operational analysis, helping companies understand a deal’s strengths and risks.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

(Of course there are many non-financial considerations, but for this blog we’re focusing on adding up the costs.). How do you weigh and plan for the costs of such a change? That should help you consider all the moving parts as you plan your strategy. Base case: Workforce planning template for keeping the office open.

Planning 52

Planning Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Math 52

Fpanda Club

JULY 24, 2022

Analysts usually build their financial models for the first 5 years of the investment and then add terminal value for all the years coming thereafter which may contribute up to 50% of NPV. Discovery driven planning Another weakness of the DCF model not discussed previously in this article is its sensitivity to assumptions.

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Spreadym

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) candidates are professionals who specialize in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis within an organization. They play a critical role in helping companies make informed financial decisions and allocate resources effectively.

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