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When the pandemic struck global economies early this year, CFOs found themselves rapidly reshuffling their business priorities. Not surprisingly, revenue projection, cost containment, workforce planning, and cash and liquidity management all suddenly emerged as primary concerns for more than half of 225 finance leaders surveyed between March and May 2020. To keep… Read More
xP&A stands for extended planning and analysis—taking the best of modern finance planning and extending it across the enterprise. But it’s not new. For years, it has been known as company-wide planning. Finance leaders whose organizations have been made more agile and strategic with modern planning and analysis have known for… Read More
The pandemic has tested the agility and staying power of virtually every organization. But while some restaurants and food service companies found only challenges, others discovered opportunities. And they leveraged modern planning to make the most of them. One of these is German-based HelloFresh, which delivers prepackaged meal kits directly to… Read More
Financial planning is never a simple process. But in an unpredictable business landscape like today’s, finance teams often find themselves struggling to predict an uncertain future. From sales revenues to resource requirements, FP&A teams need sound and valid business information to create accurate and actionable financial projections. But the factors… Read More
The pandemic is causing boards of directors and C-suite executives to take a new look at net cash flow. Traditional budgeting is simply too slow and too rigid to keep up with the rapidly changing business environment caused by Covid-19. There is too much volatility, complexity, and uncertainty right now.… Read More
At no time has agility been more vital for organizations everywhere as businesses are trying to find a foothold amid the global disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key to this effort is modern planning, which has become a business imperative because of what it offers: the ability to build multiple… Read More
Plans, forecasts, budgets, and day-to-day operations have all been toppled by the global COVID-19 pandemic. As entire industries still face an unsure future for demand and revenues, even still relatively robust businesses are operating in scenarios they’ve never faced before—and that many didn’t plan for. The pandemic has served as… Read More
Finance digital transformation is the implementation and use of digital technologies to improve the efficiency, insight, and agility of finance teams. New research sheds light on the key pillars of finance digital transformation, including cloud planning platforms, automation, data optimization, predictive analysis, and modern planning processes. Why is finance digital… Read More
When Julie Bishop McCollum arrived as the new CFO of Diverzify last year, she found a business growing so fast that its planning processes couldn’t keep up. “When I came onboard in the spring of 2019, they were running their business pretty much off of Excel spreadsheets,” recalls McCollum. A… Read More
In today’s unpredictable world, business planning is a necessity. And its value is expanding beyond its original purpose of financial planning and analysis to include other critical areas of the business, such as workforce planning. I sat down with Ethan Carlson, who is an expert on business planning, to learn… Read More
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