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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

-by Benjamin Wann, FP&A expert and writer at benjaminwann.com Abstract:   This article is an in-depth review of the end-to-end budgeting process, covering each of the steps required to prepare, build, and set a corporate budget. The article explains each...

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Moving from the Messy Middle to Digital Finance Transformation

Moving from the Messy Middle to Digital Finance Transformation

The messy middle is the part of a process or project where things start becoming chaotic. It’s the frustrating part where there is no clear path between points A and B. How does data move from an ERP to a dashboard? How does the regional sales plan add up to the corporate financial plan?

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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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