The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 8, 2024

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? An expense forecast is a prediction of your future business costs. While the idea is simple, creating an accurate forecast is more complicated than it seems.

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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 3, 2022

This accessible program can accomplish various tasks, such as financial forecasting and budgeting. Excel is an easy-to-use platform for inputting numbers and getting results with simple formulas. If your business has used Excel for financial forecasting, you may have found some challenges with the program.

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Centage

JUNE 20, 2023

These solutions create and support a budgeting and forecasting process that is more efficient with shared ownership that reduces risk and uncertainty. Real-time cash flow is a vital piece of information that can get swallowed by all the other numbers, or worse, left out of reporting entirely.

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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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Centage

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Having a solid grip on your cash flow forecast and reporting is one of the most important factors for any business to track. For many businesses, having an accurate cash flow forecast can help to avoid potential cash flow problems, predict end of year profits (or debt), and set realistic goals for the upcoming quarters and year.

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Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

A Checklist for Healthcare Organizations: No matter the size of your healthcare organization, predictive financial planning and forecasting is critical for ensuring that you are efficient and sustainable, and even more critical during times of uncertainty. Track and control costs. Produce custom healthcare reports.

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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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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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Centage

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cash flow forecasting provides that much needed insight and is the most effective way to start future-proofing your business for the year ahead. Or perhaps your integrated cash flow reports are based on GAAP accounting rules, not formulas, but aren’t supported in your current planning and forecasting software application. Learn More.

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Jedox Finance

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The world has changed so much and so quickly that it has vastly impacted our ability to forecast in the current environment. The reason was simple, the model and forecast were no longer providing useful insight and foresight to the organization. In my experience, I have found four options to be a good target number.

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Centage

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cash flow forecasting provides much needed insight when preparing for known unknowns — it’s the most effective way to start future-proofing your business for the year ahead. What is a cash flow forecast? Any of these issues can limit a thorough, accurate understanding of the forecasted cash position of the company.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Not a threat In the accountancy profession, ACCA views that AI is unlikely to destroy significant numbers of jobs. 2024 forecasts The year 2024 could see both an open-source boom and much greater variety in the types and capabilities of models, which can be very helpful in the finance function.

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Beacon CFO Plus

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If you’ve been here a while, you might recall us sharing the number one rule in business : Never run out of cash or credit. It’s worth sharing again—it is the number one cause of small business failure.). Cash flow forecasting involves estimating cash flow in and out during a predetermined period of time. Request a Consultation.

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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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Centage

JANUARY 9, 2024

While spreadsheets have long reigned supreme as the foundation of budgeting and forecasting for many organizations, the shortcomings of this legacy tool, and the silos it creates, have become impossible to ignore. It’s never a bad time to consider how to improve your overall budgeting and forecasting process.

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Collectiv

MAY 22, 2023

Accurate and timely business intelligence (BI) is critical to effective planning and forecasting. Each of our consultants has a unique background and skill set to help enterprise teams tackle any and all challenges with BI, planning, and forecasting using the Microsoft Power Platform and Power BI. We live in a data-driven world.

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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

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

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This accessible program can accomplish various tasks, such as financial forecasting and budgeting. Excel is an easy-to-use platform for inputting numbers and getting results with simple formulas. If your business has used Excel for financial forecasting, you may have found some challenges with the program. Risk of Errors.

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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. These are big bets, and to make them, business leaders want confidence in their business budgeting and forecasting. How much can a CEO rely on the numbers in the forecast?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

New jobless claims dipped to 900,000, down 26,000 from the previous week’s revised level and below economists’ forecasts of 925,000, according to the weekly report released Thursday (Jan. The total number of continued weeks claimed for benefits in all programs for the week ending Jan. 21) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). .

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CFO Dive

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As an increasing number of economists forecast a recession, financial leaders are contemplating hiring freezes, even as businesses describe their teams as "understaffed."

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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?

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

This week’s B2B Data Digest pulls some of the highlights from that eBook and serves up the numbers behind the forecasts. — $20 trillion: the expected valuation of the B2B payments market. The newest PYMNTS eBook is full of expert insight into the future of B2B payments, from commercial cards to accounts receivable.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Power and LMC Automotive forecasts that new vehicle retail sales for November 2020 will drop slightly from the same month the prior year, according to a Wednesday (Nov. Retail sales for new automobiles are forecast to be 1.04 Retail sales for new automobiles are forecast to be 1.04 A joint outlook from J.D. 25) press release.

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CFO Dive

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As a growing number of economists forecast a downturn, finance chiefs are wrestling with if or when to make the hard, emotionally-charged call to cut jobs.

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CFO Selections

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As such, their responsibilities include: budgeting and forecasting, managing mergers or acquisitions, and handling compliance issues. As such, a CFO is especially valuable for a company that is growing quickly, employs a large number of employees, and/or has complex product lines.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Coresight Research , a global research company, said the record number of closures is expected to exceed the more than 9,300 locations shuttered in 2019, CNBC reported. The latest numbers from the New York-based research group exceeds its earlier forecast of 15,000 retail closings this year.

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Navigator SAP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The general-purpose platform can address any number of use cases from the front office to the back office, such as customer analytics, financial analytics, HR analytics, demand forecasting, procurement, and more. UBIX is an Advanced Analytics and AI Platform designed for the business user.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

With some analysts estimating a 4 to 24 percent drop the number was surprisingly low. While the overall number broke records on the negative side, binge-buying put food and beverage at a record 25.6 However, the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 crisis make these numbers difficult to act on. Overall sales fell 8.7

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