The Ledger
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CFO Insights: Mastering Data for Better Insights—and Competitive Advantage
July 28, 2022
“In some industries, digital technologies have already reshaped certain aspects of how the finance function conducts business—lowering operating costs, effort, and risk while increasing the analytic value and transparency of financial data.”
FP&A Trends: The Future of Business Modelling
July 25, 2022
“In most companies relying on Excel-based solutions, Excel is doing everything: it functions as the database, the calculation engine, and the analytical tool, sometimes all within one workbook. This approach is resource-intensive and eventually becomes unsustainable. And while Excel is an excellent tool for spreadsheets, financial modelling, and provides FP&A with much-needed agility, it’s not effective for sophisticated FP&A processes such as data consolidation, repetitive reporting processes, drill-downs, and comparison analysis (such as scenario comparisons). A technology solution is needed to unlock additional power.”
FP&A Trends: Advanced Analytics as an Attribute of FP&A Maturity
July 21, 2022
“We can mix and match and decide which initiatives will be executed in response to scenarios A, B or C…This is a quite technically demanding exercise and shouldn’t be performed in Excel or any other tool with manual data entry.”
FP&A Trends: Change Management and Analytical Change for FP&A
July 20, 2022
“The BARC survey “The Future of Planning, Sept 2021” clearly showed Rolling Forecast, Integration with Operational Processes, Simulations and Scenario Analysis, Action and Value driver-based planning are where organisations at going to invest in the future, with 56% planning to invest in technology in the next 12 months.”
