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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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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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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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. Businesses are also feeling the pinch from higher interest rates, as November saw a rapid increase in the number of Chapter 11 commercial bankruptcies.

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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. Track and control costs. Use these insights to allocate your costs optimally, and ultimately drive profitability.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That recovery notwithstanding, uncertainties about inflation and the economy remained unresolved, and those uncertainties became part of the market story in the third quarter of 2023. The Markets in the Third Quarter Coming off a year of rising rates in 2022, interest rates have continued to command center stage in 2023.

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Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. 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. Watch Demo.

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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. Confidence – Am I confident in the numbers coming out of the model?

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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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Centage

JANUARY 31, 2022

Is your business set up to handle these dynamic market conditions? Cash flow forecasting provides that much needed insight and is the most effective way to start future-proofing your business for the year ahead. Transform how you budget, forecast, analyze and report. Do you have the resources to adapt? Learn More.

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Centage

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Is your business set up to handle dynamic market conditions? Without it, you won’t know if you can make necessary capital expenditures to deal with unforeseen changes in the market, or have the funds to hire to ramp up production. What is a cash flow forecast? Do you have the resources to adapt?

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Jedox Finance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

A high-quality business forecast delivers far more than just numbers. Finance professionals regularly try to look in their crystal ball with forecasts and enable the company to have seamless, solid planning. For this to succeed, your forecast must be of high quality. Though other forecasting strategies are also possible.)

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market reaction to it, offers an opportunity for us to talk about bigger issues. In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers.

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Centage

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Forecasting errors are an inevitable part of the budgeting process. Quickly identifying forecast errors in your budget is not a sign of failure, but an opportunity for improvement. Forecast error: Definition and Types In the simplest terms, forecast errors are the difference between predicted values and actual outcomes.

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Fpanda Club

APRIL 18, 2022

Marketing teams, being among FP&A’s counterparties, are usually considered to be the most creative people in the company. To perform these functions marketing, as a discipline, possesses a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to analyze data, verify hypotheses and communicate information.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the face of rapidly changing, unstable market conditions, traditional annual budgeting and forecasting processes have become outdated. Making rigid assumptions months ahead of time can often lead to worthless forecasts, as things can turn upside down so quickly. What is a rolling forecast?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the face of rapidly changing, unstable market conditions, traditional annual budgeting and forecasting processes have become outdated. Making rigid assumptions months ahead of time can often lead to worthless forecasts, as things can turn upside down so quickly. What is a rolling forecast?

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Centage

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Your ability to provide expert guidance through your business budget and forecasting process will require you to have a deep understanding of your cash flow. Growth requires investments in people, capital spending, market expansion, mergers and acquisitions. How much can a CEO rely on the numbers in the forecast?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Friday’s report of 467,000 jobs added in January confounded Wall Street economists, some of whom expected a negative number due to the impact of the omicron Covid variant on the workforce. Traders in the futures market began to price in six interest rate hikes for this year, while many economists predict four or five.

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Centage

JUNE 21, 2022

Implementing rolling budgeting, rolling financial forecasting, and mid-year forecasts. Rolling budgets come with a number of advantages, including the ability to better predict outcomes and plan for where your company is headed. With a rolling 12-month forecast, previous months drop off as new ones are added. The answer?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Predicting your organization’s financial health through forecasting is a critical role of your finance function, but there are many approaches. Two of the most common methods pitted against each other are top-down vs bottom-up forecasting. What is top-down revenue forecasting? What is bottom-up forecasting?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Predicting your organization’s financial health through forecasting is a critical role of your finance function, but there are many approaches. Two of the most common methods pitted against each other are top-down vs bottom-up forecasting. What is top-down revenue forecasting? What is bottom-up forecasting?

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Startups Sales Marketing 52

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

According to Dow Jones, the consensus forecast calls for 187,000 new nonfarm jobs in January, down from 223,000 that were created in December. But economists say it’s not clear how much of that will show up in the labor numbers. “The market is so desperate to find in anything a reason that the Fed is going to pivot. .

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Centage

JUNE 28, 2022

With less cash to count on, knowing your cash flow position with cash flow forecasting has never been more important: how much is really in the bank, how much is available on short notice, what revenues are coming in when, and what resources are going out and when. We examine the reasons below.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

While larger enterprises have had the resources to embrace financial forecasting technologies that wield sophisticated tools to bring greater value to that data, smaller businesses have historically been shut out of the market for such financial solutions. “With the pandemic, the whole world flipped upside down. .

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But just as it’s nearly impossible to predict with precision the future of an ever-changing, ever-innovating market, it’s just as difficult to draw a single conclusion from so many experts’ opinions. As technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning permeate this market, the customer experience is changing.

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Future CFO

APRIL 4, 2023

IPO markets in China and Hong Kong are estimated to be more vibrant in the rest of 2023, said Deloitte China's Capital Market Services Group (CMSG) when releasing its Q1 2023 analysis and forecasts. IPO markets in China and Hong Kong in Q1 As of 31 March 2023, the A share market had 68 new listings raising RMB65.1

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Future CFO

JULY 5, 2023

The IPO markets in China and Hong Kong to become more robust in 2H 2023, said Deloitte China's Capital Market Services Group (CMSG) recently. The CMSG expects the A share market will have had 174 new listings raising RMB209.5 This would represent a 3% rise in the number of IPOs and a 33% drop in funds raised.

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 24, 2021

This also affects the go-to-market processes in particular for the marketing and sales functions. A company’s web presence, which is usually designed by marketing, is becoming an increasingly important component in the sales process. Where marketing and sales converge. The evolution of marketing data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The number of U.S. single-family homes sold in November increased from previous rates, but at the same time, the number from October turned out to be lower than previously reported, according to a Reuters report. percent, which brought the number up to an annual rate of 719,000. This year’s numbers surged 16.9

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2024

Much of it reflects the bad ideas and numbers, and worse advice, that float around Wall Street. You probably have a good idea how things turned out: At the end of 1998, the Dow was at 9,181, just 37 points off the forecast. Those two young men in Chicago in 1974 had made one of the most spectacular market calls in history.”

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

And while the latest tools of the trade—artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—promise to make tasks such as liquidity forecasting, cash management, and risk management easier, they come with their own complications and tie the treasury team even more closely into management’s strategic planning.

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Future CFO

JULY 19, 2022

The IPO market in Hong Kong is set to slow in 2002, said Deloitte China recently wen releasing its interim review and outlook for the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong markets. As a result, the IPO market in Hong Kong is expected to see slower performance in 2022 compared with the past four years. billion in 1H 2022.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The numbers don’t lie -- or so the saying goes – but they rarely tell the whole story either, just like how the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) encompasses more than just finance and accounting. It used to be pretty much all about the numbers – but the narrative has changed. billion Specialty and Automotive Lighting business unit.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Homebuyer mortgage applications surged as June turned into July, in yet another sign of the housing market ’s surprisingly strong rebound after the coronavirus-triggered shutdown this spring. The number of purchase applications also jumped 5 percent over the previous week in June, the MBA said.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 16, 2023

For that reason, the inflation number has become a major event for financial markets, and now some traders are betting it will show inflation slowing even more than economists forecast. “The market is looking at it as glass half full. Market expectations are just 20% for a 50 basis point hike.

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