by dfernandes | Jan 23, 2023 | Budgeting, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management, General BI and Data Management
More than ever, CFOs are expected to look at past and present performance to formulate dynamic future growth strategies that will guide a company through the competitive landscape. They must consider revenue targets; gross margin goals; keeping costs down while...
by jessicaotero | Jan 19, 2023 | Business Intelligence (BI), General BI and Data Management, PowerExcel, Reporting
Financial Processes are Challenging Here you’ll find what we have found to be typical financial process challenges, along with our top tips for making your processes smarter. 1. Inefficient Processes Relying on outdated systems only makes the financial process...
by jackguarneri | Sep 21, 2022 | Business Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, Data Management, Finance and Banking, General BI and Data Management, Industry Focus, PowerExcel, Software
Moving from the Messy Middle to Digital Finance Transformation While not a generally accepted best practice, it is nearly universally true that Finance (and many other) professionals do a great amount of work in Microsoft Excel and then move data to a Business...
by sazmoodley | Jan 18, 2021 | General BI and Data Management
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...
by sazmoodley | Feb 11, 2020 | Budgeting, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, General BI and Data Management, Ms Excel
The budgeting and forecasting process for most organizations is long and tedious and occurs on an annual basis, at least. Companies try to do it more often to improve accuracy and aim to ultimately implement a procedure for continuous planning, rolling forecasts,...
by sazmoodley | Apr 23, 2018 | Business Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, General BI and Data Management
Data Visualization tools have democratized data exploration and analytics, giving business users a way to access and utilize data without depending on the IT department. Self-service BI tools like Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI, etc. are remarkable data visualization tools...
