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3 steps to improve forecasting accuracy

December 23, 2019

Imagine you’re at a restaurant with friends. You order a small salad, while your companions choose the most expensive items. You would probably ask for separate checks, since splitting the…

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5 signs you’ve outgrown spreadsheets

Gary Cokins

December 3, 2019

If you ask someone why they still carry a flip phone, push a lawn mower, or use a computer from 1997, they might say upgrading is too much of a…

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How to improve your financial reporting process

Gary Cokins

November 19, 2019

For FP&A, financial reporting is a tricky balancing act. If you share too many reports, business leaders may give up reading them all together. They are saturated. In a study by the…

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How to reduce the time spent in finance meetings

Gary Cokins

November 12, 2019

CFOs know better than anyone that time is money. So why do they waste so much of it in meetings? More than half of finance teams average nine or more…

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5 ways to step up your analytics game

Workday Adaptive Planning

November 9, 2019

As just about any finance professional knows, there’s a huge need for FP&A teams to become more strategic partners to the business. When we surveyed more than 300 CFOs for…

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4 steps to improve your business reporting process

Bob Hansen

November 2, 2019

Late nights. Working over the weekend. Learning the names of every barista within a quarter-mile radius of the office. If you’re in charge of creating financial reports, you don’t need…

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3 barriers to business agility—and how to overcome them

Gary Cokins

October 10, 2019

There’s a lot of talk these days about business agility. Yet it’s much more than just a trendy new business term to throw around at a networking lunch. Ask any…

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What Are the Best Practices of Successful Financial Controllers?

Sid Sitaram

August 29, 2019

The role of financial controller has moved way beyond number crunching. Increasingly, controllers are taking on the job of financial operating officer. They are becoming the CFO’s go-to source to ensure that finance…

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For your strategy to succeed, you must go liquid

Anders Liu-Lindberg

July 29, 2019

One of the worst things about budgeting is that it tends to lock in your resource spend for the coming year. Too often we hear, “If it’s not in the…

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Budgets don’t create value. Big moves do!

Anders Liu-Lindberg

July 8, 2019

This article is not about the budget process—yet it plays a leading role—but more about the strategy process and the role of budget. When we look at the strategy process, our…