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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Fpanda Club

MARCH 19, 2025

Yes, I said that, I am addicted to financial planning and analysis. After 15+ years in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Ive learned some hard truths things I wish someone had told me earlier in my career. My name is Anna, and I am an FP&A-holic. These capabilities strongly depend on how often we update our beliefs.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Did you know that 47% of businesses still rely on spreadsheets for financial planning, despite the risks of errors and inefficiencies? Workday Adaptive Planning aims to solve this problem by offering a cloud-based Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) solution with AI-powered forecasting, budgeting, and workforce planning tools.

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Cube Software

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

What is demand forecasting? Demand forecasting predicts future customer demand using historical data, market trends, and analytics. Without demand forecasting, youre essentially guessing how much inventory youll need, how many staff members to hire, or whether a new product launch will hit its revenue targets.

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Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

The Shift to Modern FP&A Unprecedented cost pressures, along with regulatory and reimbursement issues and diverse revenue sources, all add complexity to the budgeting and planning process for healthcare organizations. Generate detailed personnel plans. Create precise income plans based on accurate historical data.

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CFO Plans

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In the fast-paced world of tech startups, strategic financial planning isn’t just beneficialit’s crucial. Start Your Financial Transformation Today with expert guidance from CFO Plans. This planning involves exploring various tech startup funding strategies , from venture capital and angel investors to crowdfunding.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

lakh crore from the market, while net borrowing will be at Rs 11.2 Bond yields touched a 30-month high on Tuesday after the government announced a higher-than-expected gross market borrowing of Rs 14.95 lakh crore from the market, while net borrowing will be at Rs 11.2 The government will borrow Rs 14.95 By Manish M Suvarna.

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E78 Partners

MARCH 3, 2025

Yet many middle-market companies continue to explore opportunities to go public. After a challenging IPO market from 2022 to 2023, conditions have certainly improved. However, while market sentiment is improving, IPO readiness requires more rigorous preparation than ever before.

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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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Forecasting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Planning 98

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. Accurate measurements also allow businesses to engage in scenario modeling.

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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. How can we plan for an uncertain economy?

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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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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 18, 2025

This is as true for professionals as it is for amateurs; it’s also true in music, film, sports, television, and economic and market forecasting. Market Mayhem : As investors, we often rely on rules of thumb that fail us. The vast majority of market gains come from ~1% of all stocks. We prefer narratives over data.

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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. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Did you know that 35% of organizations identify data quality and timeliness as significant barriers to effective financial planning and analysis (FP&A)? This issue hampers forecasting accuracy, risk management, and resource allocation. This leads to better budgeting, more reliable forecasting, and stronger financial stability.

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Fpanda Club

MAY 17, 2022

Budget and annual planning cycle - these words can make many people tremble. Aimed at determining firm’s short-term objectives and transforming them into operational plan by allocating available resources, annual planning exercise is mostly considered by its stakeholders to be a curse rather than a savior. Too much game playing.

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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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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

AUGUST 15, 2022

In the current economic climate, proper financial planning and management are more essential than ever before. With that in mind, many businesses are turning to budgeting and planning drivers as a way of obtaining more accurate information. Managers can then run scenarios with the drivers to improve long-term strategic planning.

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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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CFO Plans

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In the fast-paced world of small business, precise financial forecasting is not merely advantageous—it’s essential. This startling statistic underscores the critical importance of accurate financial forecasting. Let’s dive into the essentials of financial forecasting and how it can revolutionize your business strategy.

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Centage

AUGUST 29, 2022

Along with being agile and able to pivot on a dime, these businesses have the ability to make decisions and act on them with confidence, and that means mastering the art of scenario planning. The end result is improved forecasting when it comes to revenue, profitability, and cash flow.

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Centage

APRIL 28, 2022

Back in 2019, Centage made waves when it announced the availability of Planning Maestro , the first-ever FP&A platform designed specifically for the mid-size market. Up until the release of Planning Maestro, only enterprise-sized companies could afford the expense of automated and intelligent cloud-based FP&A technologies.

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Centage

MARCH 15, 2022

Designed to help businesses prepare for the unknown, financial scenario planning is a strategic tool for flexible long-term decision-making. With financial scenario planning, companies seek to avoid overpredicting and underpredicting their future by separating content into two categories: things that are certain and things that are unknown.

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CFO Plans

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Strategic Budget Planning as a Success Blueprint The journey to financial stability begins with strategic budget planning. By forecasting cash flow and aligning it with business objectives, companies can anticipate potential shortfalls and surpluses.

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Centage

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Value of Stress Testing Your Financial Plan. As we approach the end of the fiscal year and begin a new one, business leaders have an overriding concern: How accurate are the assumptions we made when we created our plan? All plans, to a certain extent, are based on assumptions. Scenario Planning and Goal Alignment.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

When planning for retirement, it’s effectively impossible to precisely forecast the performance and timing of future investment returns, which in turn makes it challenging to accurately predict a plan’s success or failure.

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Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Workforce planning is important to meeting your organization’s strategic vision, but it’s something that many consider a kind of fortune telling. In reality, it’s more science than art, and should be a critical component of management’s operational planning – especially during uncertain times. Download the Workforce Planning Toolkit.

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The Finance Weekly

MAY 5, 2024

The salesperson usually dives into your life - asking about your family size, daily routine, and more to understand how you plan to use the car. That's where sales and revenue planning, along with the game-changing concept of Revenue Operations (RevOps), come in. What is Sales Planning?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. In the table below, we compare the changes in regional market capitalizations (in $ millions) over time.

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Centage

AUGUST 29, 2023

They should forecast and plan for them all year long. By adopting continuous financial planning, financial pros can do better at keeping costs in line, managing investments, taking advantage of opportunities, and reducing the risk of threats. Continuous financial planning is more advantageous to companies for several reasons.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

After January’s surprisingly strong jobs report, focus swings to consumer inflation in the week ahead and what it could mean for the Federal Reserve’s plan to raise interest rates. Traders in the futures market began to price in six interest rate hikes for this year, while many economists predict four or five. Source: NYSE.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Financial models are essential for organizations, helping forecast financial performance using historical data and future projections. This practice allows businesses, investors, and finance professionals to evaluate investment opportunities, assess risks, forecast future scenarios, and support strategic decision-making.

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Collectiv

JANUARY 24, 2025

Did you know that 96% of finance teams still rely on spreadsheets for planning and 93% rely on them for reporting? If youre stuck in a vicious cycle of manual updates and outdated insights, its time to rethink your approach to planning and financial reporting. Spreadsheets are not built for strategic decision-making.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

CFOs and the Finance team rode on the waves of these shifts in the market, putting talent management—re-skilling and up-skilling—on the priorities list to help finance professionals through transformation and change. The post Gearing up for 2025: How finance leaders will take the reign appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Addressing such gaps is crucial for the organisation, including the Finance function, as it can impact cost planning and decision-making processes. The ability to integrate AI into financial planning also means we are seeing improved efficiency, allowing Finance teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than administrative tasks."

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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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