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CFO Magazine: The ABCs of CPM Software
November 16, 2021
“While some CFOs are ahead of the curve in using CPM, most are not. They often see spreadsheets as the quickest and fastest way to stand up some level of CPM-related competencies. Unfortunately, that approach is usually not very successful.”
FP&A Trends: What is Integrated FP&A?
November 12, 2021
“FP&A is all about managing the value of the company through understanding, describing the value through models, supporting decision making, telling the story, and communicating to the stakeholders. Integrated FP&A involves harmonising the three levels of planning – Strategic, Financial and Operational levels”.
CFO Journal: Finance 2025: Operating Models, Data Integration, ERP, and the Workforce
November 10, 2021
“Does your company have a streamlined finance data infrastructure that can help you take advantage of advanced technologies and deliver insights? Finance data serves as a core foundational component of other accelerants, such as extracting an increasingly sophisticated level of business insights that can drive corporate strategy and are also relevant to stakeholders. This will require a comprehensive driver-based data architecture that tells the full back story and doesn’t just report on the outcomes without the underlying causes.”
CFO Journal: 2025 Finance Predictions: The Pandemic Effect
November 8, 2021
“As real-time information moves closer to reality, and business analysis grows increasingly automated, finance will likely bolster its efficiency by offloading some responsibilities to captive locations, centers of excellence, and outsourcing vendors—all of which may be held to a higher standard. Lower costs can enable the function to invest in work that is building enterprise value.”
