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Financial Reporting – Have You Seen the Light?
For many routine tasks, the need to just get it done tends to overshadow the inefficiencies and pain along the way. Then, once the task is complete, those irritations are quickly forgotten and your mind moves onto the next task. That is, until the offending task pops up again. Periodic financial reporting is a great […]
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VLOG: 3 Ways Finance and Marketing Can Stay Aligned During the Quarter
In order to grow a company, finance and marketing have to stay in lock-step. Saran Raksincharoensak, Finance Director, and Amanda DePaul, Vice President of Demand Generation at Planful, sit down to discuss how they work closely together to ensure alignment and help grow the business. In this video, they’ll focus on three reports: actual spend vs budget, historical channel ROI, and customer acquisition cost (CAC).
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4 Types of Financial Reports Every FP&A Team Should Be Using
Corporate FP&A teams use both quantitative and qualitative analysis of all financial and operational aspects of a company to evaluate the company’s progress toward achieving its financial goals and to map out future goals and plans. FP&A Managers utilize financial and economic trends to review past company performance and attempt to predict opportunities and anticipate challenges, all while working towards forecasting a company’s future financial results.
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What is EBITDA?
Adjusted EBITDA vs EBITDA Let’s start with the EBITDA definition: Earnings Before Interest Tax Depreciation and Amortization. It is often used as a proxy for cash flow and is a measure of operating profit. It is a good indicator of how well the company is generating revenues and managing non controllable expenses because it excludes […]
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Why Semi-Annual Financial Reporting isn’t Going to Work
Planful’ CFO, Ian Charles gives us his perspective on quarterly vs semi-annual financial reporting. What are the different sides of the debate, how a CFO can reduce the reporting burden, and why quarterly reporting is still the way to go.
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Our Latest Innovation Makes Financial Reporting in Microsoft Office REAL Easy
Finance is stressed. It’s challenging to be always working under tight deadlines and monthly reporting crunches while trying to cobble together accurate financial data from across enterprise systems.
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Moving Financial Consolidation and Reporting to the Cloud – Webinar Recap
Ho-hum, another quarter-end close has passed. This process might seem routine, but how well is your monthly/quarterly close and reporting cycle working?
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What Is Financial Reporting?
Does it feel like your business isn’t growing? It could be because your team lacks crucial financial reporting and analysis capabilities that help track key business metrics and trends. Without the right tools to stay up-to-date on what’s happening across the business, it can be difficult to make informed decisions on how to best manage […]
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How CFOs Can Lose Less Sleep Over Financial Reporting
It’s that time of year. Another quarter has ended, and it’s time for Finance to close the books, analyze the results, and do quarterly financial reporting for management and external stakeholders.
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How to Reduce the Pain of Board Reporting
Timely and accurate board reporting is a critical need in any organization. However, many Finance departments struggle in pulling together the variety of data required – reports, charts, graphs, and textual commentary.
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How EPM Software Unifies Planning, Modeling, Reporting and Analytics
Most finance professionals know that budgeting, planning, modeling, reporting, and analytics are all related business processes.
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4 Risks in Relying on Excel for Financial Close and Reporting
Excel has been around since 1985. It was one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical interface with pulldown menus and to have a point-and-click capability with a mouse.
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Year-End Close and Reporting: What’s Behind the Numbers?
For finance and accounting professionals, there are three words in the English language that induce headaches and in some cases, outright panic: "year-end close."
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Dynamic Budgeting, Planning and Reporting for Life Sciences Companies
Companies in the Life Sciences industry – such as Pharmaceutical manufacturers, Biotech companies, and Medical Device manufacturers – are facing major challenges.
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Making the Business Case for Cloud-Based Planning and Reporting
Has your organization outgrown its spreadsheet-based system for budgeting and planning? Have you “hit the wall” in using spreadsheets for financial consolidation and reporting?
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Improve Your Financial Reporting and Closing Processes in 2016
As your business brings its 2015 financial reporting to a close, you've likely identified a number of inefficiencies that could be improved in the coming year.
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Relieving the Pain of Year-End Close and Reporting
How’s the 2015 year-end closing going? Many of you may still be in the throes of year-end close and reporting.
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Make Your Year-End Reporting Faster, Easier, and Less Stressful
Are your stress levels building? That's understandable as there are only a couple of weeks left in the year.
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How the CFO Can Effectively Work with Boards
One of the key roles of the CFO is working with the CEO to support the company’s board of directors – but not all boards are created equal.
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EPM or ERP – Which to Implement First?
Finance organizations in growing enterprises often reach a point where they need to upgrade or replace both their ERP and EPM software systems. Here, they face the dilemma of deciding which to upgrade or replace first – ERP or EPM? This dilemma occurs in one of two scenarios:
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Hybrid EPM: Accelerating Delivery of New EPM Applications
Does this scenario sound familiar? Your division of a large enterprise has outgrown Excel spreadsheets and is in dire need of a more robust solution for budgeting, planning, forecasting and financial reporting.