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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...
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
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?
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.
In-Memory Database
In-memory database systems are designed explicitly to get the most out of memory and for its performance advantage. Learn about in-memory database and how you can leverage it for analytics.