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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...
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...
PowerExcel: Making What’s Complicated in Budgeting Simple
Not all firms budget, but nearly all that do use Excel. This is true for firms of all sizes, across all industries, and around the world.
Can CFOs Really Benefit from Business Intelligence Services? (hint: incorporate Planning capabilities)
They must consider revenue targets; gross margin goals; keeping costs down while increasing sales funnels; investment opportunities; business risk areas …
Financial Process Improvement: How to Improve Your Planning and Reporting Processes
Many finance professionals are tied to inefficient processes resulting in an underutilization of their talents. Learn how to improve your financial processes.
Moving from the Messy Middle to Digital Finance Transformation
Digital Finance Transformation with PowerExcel (and without the messy middle!)
Visionary Intelligence & the Value of the Right Business Intelligence Solution
Business intelligence (BI) is the transformation of data into insights that drive business value; the revelation of trends that help executives and their teams make informed decisions, optimize processes, and overcome disruption. But this extremely broad...
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...
An Easier and Faster Way with PowerExcel – Part 2 of 2
How does financial modeling in PowerExcel compare to Excel? Here are some concrete examples that will show how PowerExcel can improve productivity and collaboration in finance teams.
Our CEO made us build financial reports in Excel to understand our customer’s pain. Here’s what I learned. – Part 1 of 2
Finance professionals are next-level experts in Excel—spreadsheet ninjas, gurus, jedis, MVPs! I went through an Excel Bootcamp to learn the pain of working in Excel to develop financial reports. Here’s what I learned.