Centage

JUNE 28, 2023

When it comes to automation, what’s particularly beneficial is the way technology can automate how financial data flows through models and forecasts, freeing financial teams from the manual labor of attempting to create forecasts via spreadsheets. Fortunately, automation allows for increased agility.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 21, 2023

He has a great ability to identify a variant perception versus the Wall Street consensus and express that view in a deeply researched market position. I share that caveat because making a bet and staying with it, is very different than making a forecast.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2024

At the Money: Forecasting Recessions with Claudia Sahm (January 31, 2024 ) Investors don’t like recessions. In this episode, we discuss how to use labor data to forecast recessions. Claudia Sahm : Recessions aren’t supposed to be forecastable. But how can they tell if one’s coming? Claudia Sahm : Absolutely.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The grid operator, as of Thursday evening, was forecasting demand on Friday morning to peak at roughly 73 gigawatts as temperatures drop. The silver lining here is that ERCOT’s forecast seems to bake in a lot of caution. The low forecast for Dallas Friday morning called for around 17 degrees, for example.

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Simply Treasury

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“If you have to forecast, forecast often” (Edgar R. Need for reliable forecasts. Nobody could deny the importance of having accurate and reliable Cash-Flow Forecasts (CFF). Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. So, what are the keys to good forecasting?

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CFO Dive

JANUARY 17, 2024

Robust retail sales defy predictions that trends such as declining savings and a cooling labor market will inhibit consumer spending.

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Centage

MAY 23, 2022

With rolling forecasts, businesses can gain better insight while aligning their sales and production goals with what’s actually happening from a financial perspective. The goal is to enable companies to create more flexible, agile strategies where they can react quickly to the ups and downs of the market. What’s a Rolling Forecast?

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Centage

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

However, one of the most important planning tools for a business of any size is cash flow forecasting – and it’s especially important in times of uncertainty. Knowing the timing, amount and predictability of future cash flows with cash flow forecasting should be an essential component of the budgeting and planning process.

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CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Data on the job market, and consumer and producer prices, suggest the Fed may need to keep the main interest rate at a 40-year high longer than markets anticipated.

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Strategic Treasurer

JULY 21, 2022

Preparing Your Cash Forecasting Strategy for Market Uncertainty. Description : Companies today are bracing for an era of increasing market uncertainty, interest rate and pricing fluctuations, and possible recession. In such times, forecasting needs to become a priority. September 22 | 2:00 PM EDT. Register Now.

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CFO Share

JUNE 11, 2024

Accurate financial forecasting is crucial for small businesses, but developing and updating forecasts can be time-consuming, frustrating, and ultimately inaccurate. Precise forecasts provide the roadmap for future growth, but most small companies spin their wheels developing and maintaining forecasts.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Atradius has recently upgraded its global GDP growth forecast for 2023 to 2.4%, which is a slowdown from 2022 but a significant improvement on earlier predictions. In addition, the firm posted a global GDP growth forecast of 2.0% Emerging market economies (EMEs) will fare better, with forecast growth of 3.9% for 2024. “We

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Lime Light

JUNE 28, 2024

Financial forecasting software is making it so that the CFOs of today can accurately project out the financial realities of tomorrow (and tomorrow’s tomorrow). Taking advantage of the best financial forecasting software in today’s market is critical to establishing a strong, data-backed financial future for your organization.

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Lime Light

JUNE 28, 2024

Financial forecasting software is making it so that the CFOs of today can accurately project out the financial realities of tomorrow (and tomorrow’s tomorrow). Taking advantage of the best financial forecasting software in today’s market is critical to establishing a strong, data-backed financial future for your organization.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 19, 2023

Only 5 stocks driving markets?! Equal-weighted Nasdaq100 up 17% since the June lows for the market because “it’s only 5 stocks”? How bad at math do you need to be to think that it’s only 5 stocks driving this market? But people have been forecasting an imminent recession for 18 months — and we still have yet to have one.

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 8, 2024

While company leaders can't control everything, such as market fluctuations and economic changes, they can influence expenses. This is why expense forecasting is valuable for CEOs, CFOs, and other executives when predicting a company's future financial performance. What Is an Expense Forecast?

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. This dance between companies and investors, playing out in expected and actual earnings, is a feature of every earnings season, especially so in the United States, and it has always fascinated me.

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E78 Partners

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Middle-market companies face increasing pressure to maintain their value edge in this competitive financial landscape. To drive growth, improve profitability, and enhance decision-making, companies can leverage the power of refined operational disciplines – Forecasting, Planning, and Analytics (our take on FP&A).

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VCFO

MARCH 4, 2022

Financial Forecasting Best Practices – 7 Tips for Success. Financial forecasts are critically important planning tools. In creating the forecast, research into the profitability of current operations and areas of potential expansion are essential to success. Prepare multiple forecast views. Begin with the end in mind.

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Centage

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Dynamic market conditions may not be anything new but navigating the current business environment and its unprecedented unpredictability has shined a spotlight on just how critical cash flow forecasting is to an organization. Here are three best practices to improve your cash flow forecasting: #1.

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Jedox Finance

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

However, forecasting or predicting how much your customers want to buy or how well a business would perform in the future was much more difficult to achieve way back then. But what about forecasting? As CRM has evolved, many vendors included sales forecasting functionalities in their tools. Let your CRM work its magic.

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CFO Share

DECEMBER 9, 2023

In the whirlwind of being a small business owner, you may feel too overwhelmed to take time for forecasting, but building a financial forecast is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity for survival and growth. What is financial forecasting? However, hedging comes with its own costs.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 19, 2022

The link was to James Mackintosh’s column “ Five Not-Quite-Impossible Things the Market Believes.” But rational people can reasonably disagree on anything market-related — after all, someone has to be on the other side of your trade. As to what the market “knows:” Stop Anthropomorphizing Mr. Market.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 3, 2024

The sentiment is especially poignant when it comes to economic forecasting, as it's nearly impossible to get an accurate picture of the current state of the economy at any given moment. The labor market, while still remarkably resilient, has also started to show signs of stress.

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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. Forecast: Forecasts can vary in terms of their time horizon.

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CFO Share

JANUARY 12, 2024

Financial forecasting is an essential practice, but navigating the waters of financial planning can be daunting, especially when you’re considering bringing a fractional CFO on board for the first time. What is a Financial Forecast? Updating forecasts monthly is considered best practice. Final forecast review.

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Cube Software

MARCH 4, 2024

What to look for in revenue forecasting software Revenue forecasting software is a tool designed to help businesses predict future sales and income over a specific period. It leverages historical data, sales trends, and market analysis to provide an estimate of the revenue a company can expect to generate.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This weekend Jeff Sommer discussed a DFA research paper on market timing; both are well worth your time to read. The broad strokes are: Market timing is extremely difficult, very few people (if any) do it consistently well. Low Stakes : The most successful market timers are often those people who do not have actual assets at risk.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

 At the Money: Is War Good for Markets? February 14, 2024) What does history tell us about how war impacts the stock market? Can these patterns inform us of future bull market behavior? A 500% move in the stock market. Explain your dad’s thinking about how war plus inflation equals a stock bull market.

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Spreadym

JUNE 2, 2023

Rolling forecast is a financial planning and forecasting approach that involves continuously updating and extending the forecast based on the latest available data and information. As the current period elapses, the forecast is extended by adding a new period, maintaining the same forecast horizon.

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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. Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process. Do we have the data we need readily available? Watch Demo.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The fund raised its forecast for China’s economic growth after the country’s better-than-expected Q3 growth and Beijing’s move to approve a 1 trillion yuan (US$137 billion) sovereign bond issue and allow local governments to frontload part of their 2024 bond quotas. next year. "The

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Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But times have changed – which is why financial forecasting is more important than your annual budget. More than half (57%) are producing P&L forecasts more often than monthly. What’s the Financial Forecast Look Like? Financial forecasting is especially important when it comes to cash flow. Watch Demo.

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Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

Finance teams that embrace digital transformation and recognize the value of moving to a modern FP&A solution are better equipped to adapt to market changes, take intelligent risks, and capitalize swiftly on new opportunities. Integrate departmental budgets for a consolidated financial view of the organization.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Global Finance ’s top 50 emerging markets honorees navigated their individual obstacles in their own unique way. The institutions in our 50 Safest Emerging Markets Banks rankings are facing a challenging operating environment from rising geopolitical tensions, potential disruptions of global trade, and commodity price volatility.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 8, 2024

Revenue forecasting plays a crucial role in business planning. Through an analysis of historical performance data, market trends, and other important factors, organizations can also identify potential risks and optimize sales strategies.

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