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As global events and the accelerated pace of change place even more pressure on today’s CFOs to provide strategic guidance at high speed, financial leaders worldwide know they have to ramp up their technology transformation if they want to compete and thrive. A 2021 Accenture report revealed that costly decisions… Read More
Working at 100% capacity might sound like the dream to some, but savvy business-service leaders know that being maxed out can actually stunt growth. When every team member is tapped and every resource stretched thin, new deals can’t get off the ground, projects get backed up, and customer satisfaction scores… Read More
For FP&A teams, financial reporting can present a challenge. If you share too many reports, business leaders may give up reading them all together. But if you offer barebones financial reporting, stakeholders scream for more relevant data and timely information. So how do you find the balance of not overwhelming your… Read More
Once thought of as the new frontier, the cloud—as in cloud computing, cloud platform, and all things related—has gone from buzzword to business necessity. For many companies, the transition to the cloud has been spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Digitization of systems, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), became mission critical to running… Read More
At the start of the global pandemic, organizations worldwide either mandated or encouraged working from home. As organizations look to the post-Covid future, many are planning a hybrid virtual model that combines remote work with time in the office. For organizations looking to operate with agility, a mix of virtual and on-site working prompts… Read More
It’s been said that speed is the ultimate advantage in business. This concept is particularly relevant today: The pace of business is even faster now as companies plan for life after COVID-19. What’s trending today becomes tomorrow’s disruption—and tomorrow’s disruption will eventually define a new way of working. The question is, when… Read More
A simple count of employees should be a fairly straightforward process. After all, how difficult can it be to get an accurate number of the people your business employs? Harder than you’d think. Finance and HR routinely produce headcount numbers that don’t match. And that’s a problem. When you don’t… Read More
Want to improve collaboration? Here are five tips to ignite company-wide engagement and build confidence in your financial planning process. With its promise of extending FP&A principles beyond finance and into other areas of the business, such as marketing, workforce, sales, and IT, xP&A (or xP&A, extended planning and analysis)… Read More
Click, click, click. That’s the sound your mouse makes moving or manipulating the same data over and over again, month after month. It’s a strong clue that it’s time to automate that report or data analysis. Generally, you want to look to automate functions that feature consistency and repetition and… Read More
How does a highly effective finance team take control of complexity and fragmented information? They start by building common standards that help employees across the company integrate information in an efficient way to deliver a single version of the truth. Like many streamlined practices, the idea of common FP&A metrics… Read More
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