CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Optimising Budgets: Strategies for Effective Financial Forecasting Financial forecasting plays a crucial role in managing budgets effectively. However, forecasting is not just about guessing numbersit is a structured process that relies on analysing past data, considering present trends, and planning.

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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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Lime Light

DECEMBER 20, 2024

To do this effectively, organizations employ an essential financial planning technique known as budget forecasting. It is a traditional practice for companies to project estimates and expectations for a new fiscal year.

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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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Lime Light

MARCH 11, 2025

The healthcare industry faces multiple financial pressures that prove to be a challenge in providing consistent, high-quality patient care. These pressures include rising costs for labor, drugs, and supplies. Often, these costs are not matched by reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid.

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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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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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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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CFO Selections

AUGUST 20, 2024

Running out of cash is not only a sign of poor planning, but it's also one of the biggest reasons that businesses fail. Forecasting your company's cash flow can be tricky because of the many variables that determine how much cash you will need for operations versus the amount available.

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CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Many economists, including those at the Federal Reserve, botched their forecasts for price gains last year. CFOs can avoid losses from flawed inflation projections through scenario planning.

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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.

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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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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. Improved Forecasting It’s difficult to create a good forecast if the data behind it is shaky or out of date. One such system is a modern FP&A solution.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They offer a complete suite of features that help businesses forecast cash flows, handle short-term investments, and improve liquidity. Cash Flow Forecasting - These tools can analyze historical data and current transactions to help businesses predict future cash flow needs, ensuring liquidity and avoiding financial bottlenecks.

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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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Centage

MARCH 14, 2023

If companies want to succeed, they need to craft their personnel planning with care, ensuring their choices hold up to close scrutiny from upper management and investors. The Importance of Workforce Planning Companies often confuse strategic workforce planning with more general annual resource planning.

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CFO News

APRIL 9, 2025

Despite the RBI's downward revision of India's GDP growth forecast for FY26, CFOs remain optimistic, citing strong domestic consumption and rate cuts as key growth drivers. CFOs had to say about the outlook for the countrys economy and capital expenditure plans. The critical question, however, is: Can India Inc.

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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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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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Centage

AUGUST 8, 2023

Worse, when your company is ready to migrate to a new financial model, like rolling forecasts and scenario planning , or report on company performance, Excel may hold you back from making the leap to move your company forward. Moving to a rolling forecast while using spreadsheets could mean revamping or recreating your existing system.

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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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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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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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Lime Light

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Without a clear, financial plan and strategy, many organizations may struggle to sustain programs, manage donor expectations, and maintain transparency. Limited resources, unclear expense tracking and administrative costs, and unpredictable and diverse funding sources can risk their mission and operations.

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E78 Partners

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Yet, many PE-backed companies struggle with financial planning and analysis (FP&A), which creates barriers to achieving growth targets, cash flow clarity, and operational alignment. Executives rely on FP&A for backward-looking analysis rather than proactive scenario planning.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The momentum persists, with growth forecast at 5.4% This puts Tanzania among the few countries in Africa where investors can plan for the long term without fear of sudden political upheavals. First is protecting existing contracts, which is crucial for long-term investment planning. in 2024 and 6% in 2025. Tanzania office.

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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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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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The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

Are you planning for a Saturday night? How about, planning to buy a house in the next five years? That’s exactly how Long-range Planning (LRP) works – not only for individuals but for businesses as well. Given the current volatility in markets and global economies, long-range planning can indeed seem daunting.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He also highlights the importance of building agility in supply chain management and, external focus and benchmarking in forecasting, whilst continuing to be data and insight-led. In weathering these challenges, Shivam notes the importance of having clarity of vision and ensuring resource allocations are clearly aligned with the vision.

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CFO Selections

MARCH 4, 2024

The “branches” off each decision alternative that result use data analysis to forecast the most likely outcome of each decision. A decision tree is a critical part of strategic planning because it allows decision makers to analyze the effects of a significant change throughout different areas of the business.

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They were both CFO's who saw a big gap in midmarket companies' financial planning, as the amount of data and reporting needs are always growing, while the tools to help with that weren't keeping up. Basic modeling, forecasting, and budgeting workflows. Advanced forecasting and scenario planning.

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CFO Thought Leader

MARCH 28, 2025

In this episode of Planning Aces , three forward-looking finance leaders share how theyre transforming planning and forecasting inside their organizations. Meanwhile, Gabi Gantus of Mytra AI draws on her Tesla FP&A roots to illustrate how finance can lead long-term operational planning.

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CFO Talks

APRIL 15, 2025

Accountability Isnt Admin Its Your Performance Lever For all the talk about AI-driven forecasting, real-time dashboards, and digitising the finance function, there remains one cornerstone of high-performing finance teams that no technology can replace: accountability. Forecasting becomes a game of optimism versus realism.

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