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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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Focus CFO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Heading into 2025, accurate sales forecasting is more critical than ever. Here are five key ways to align your sales forecasting and budgeting processes for success in the year ahead. Here are five key ways to align your sales forecasting and budgeting processes for success in the year ahead.

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The Finance Weekly

JUNE 22, 2022

To top it all off, the current market downturn and continued inflation is putting additional strains on companies’ forecasting and planning efforts. This is causing them to miss out on in-depth, long term engagement with existing customers, as well as the inability to increase the number of customers they are able to take on.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Twilio — Twilio’s stock plunged nearly 36%, a day after the company issued a weaker-than-expected sales forecast. On Friday, Cowen downgraded the communication tools company to market perform from outperform, citing deteriorating macro trends. PayPal — PayPal slid 5% after lowering its annual revenue growth forecast.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Economists forecast the unemployment rate was steady at 3.7%, and average wage growth slowed to 0.3% ET, and is in special focus since the Federal Reserve has been concerned that the hot labor market and rising wages have been helping fuel inflation. economist, forecasts that an above consensus 225,000 jobs were added in November.

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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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

The company also forecasted a loss for the current quarter. Silvergate Capital — The crypto-focused bank slid more than 22% after it suspended dividend payments on its Series A preferred stock, in an effort to preserve capital as it navigates recent crypto market volatility. per share, according to Refinitiv.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

With this information, you can make critical strategic decisions, such as how much to spend on a major marketing campaign or whether to expand into a new market. During turbulent times, your business can forecast and do scenario planning for the future with our forecasting and scenario planning tools at Centage.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

One of the big news stories of last week was Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and the market’s response to that news was to push up Twitter’s stock price by almost 10%. In contrast, consider Yahoo!,

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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

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

“If we see initial claims fall, that would be an indication that the hit to the economy and the labor market in particular from the Omicron wave is fading,” said. He expects initial claims numbers will continue to drift down over the next month or two. Mr. Faucher has forecast a decline of 400,000 jobs in January. There were 10.9

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

Though United Rentals missed analysts’ expectations for per-share earnings, it was in-line with Wall Street’s forecasts for revenue, per FactSet. The company forecasted 2023 revenue to range between $13.7 analysts forecasted, according to FactSet. Analysts forecasted earnings of 17 cents per share on $530.2

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Analysts polled by Refinitiv were forecasting earnings of 23 cents per share on revenue of $4.49 Twilio — Shares tumbled 16% after the cloud communications software maker issued a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast for the fourth quarter, despite an otherwise strong third-quarter report. PayPal — Shares declined more than 6%.

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Fpanda Club

APRIL 11, 2021

Despite some common features of bookkeepers and FP&A analysts such as patience, ability to work with numbers and obviously understanding of financial statements, the range of similarities in these two professions is quite limited. Storytelling to be able to explain what is covered behind the numbers. HOW TO DEAL WITH.

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

Major priorities over the next one to two years: We are not surprised that Cash-Flow Forecasting comes out on top when the COVID crisis has been hitting us for the past year. The uncertainties surrounding the economy explain the difficulty in producing reliable and accurate forecasts.

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Jedox Finance

MAY 17, 2022

What Predictive Analytics Cannot Forecast. From the opening of Lloyd’s Coffee House in 1686, financial services professionals have been attempting to forecast what’s going to happen next. Whether or not the results of such forecasts beat random chance is highly dependent on the subject matter expert’s skills.

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Future CFO

JUNE 24, 2024

The budget and forecast should reflect the Company’s plans, visions, expectations and educated guesses on the market trends. Yes, in the sense that there are a lot of analyses that can now be handled by Gen AI and No, because it transforms accountants from number crunchers to strategic advisors. Yes and No.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 6, 2023

But economists disagree on whether that will be the case, given that a strong jobs market could continue to ignite price increases in the service sector and keep the Federal Reserve raising interest rates. Yet, the picture of the labor market is one of the strongest ever. It shows a job market that is slowly but surely cooling off.”

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 1, 2023

After a monstrous 68% recovery from the March 2020 pandemic low, and another nearly 30% gain in 2021, markets decided to have one of their all-too-regular spasms. The wisdom of the crowd is why the efficient markets work most of the time, but it really helps to be aware when the crowd turns into an unthinking mob of hooligans.

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