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Budgeting Solutions for Your Business – Sharpen Your Axe

Budgeting Solutions for Your Business – Sharpen Your Axe

  Abraham Lincoln has a famous quote, “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” Not many of us enjoy taking part in the budgeting process each year. The process is the most tedious and potentially risky task we do to...

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How to Avoid Bad Budgeting

How to Avoid Bad Budgeting

1. The Pains of Bad Budgeting Budgeting for businesses is absurd, and everyone knows it. The amount of time budgeting takes, forcing executives, directors, and managers into endless meetings and tense negotiations is mind-numbing. Budgeting incites managers to...

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The Pain of Forecasting and How to End It!

The Pain of Forecasting and How to End It!

Guest blog: this post by PARIS’s Asia partner Trinity Bridge—a “Specialist advisor and execution partner for businesses on a growth path in Asia”—speaks to “the pain of forecasting and how to end it.” Trinity Bridge conducted a survey of CFOs in Hong King and...

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