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Think you can rely on spreadsheets for financial applications?

Think again. They probably are not as complete, reliable and accurate as they appear to be. Earlier this summer I was on an internal control engagement at a local publically held company that must...

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A New Way to Look at Accounting Data

How a software solution changed the way I look at financial data. I usually don’t rush out to purchase the latest and greatest technology products; I hardly ever jump on every software or hardware...

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What Criteria do You Use to Select Your Planning, Budgeting and Analysis...

Why the obvious solution may be your worst choice About a year ago I was looking at various software solutions that assist companies with the planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes. I...

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Why Business Budgeting Software Beats Spreadsheets

Business budgeting software offers a large suite of advantages over spreadsheets such as Excel or Lotus. Regardless of the type of business you manage, your modeling, scalability and security reach...

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How Cash Flow Planning Software Can Save Your Business

How Cash Flow Planning Software Can Save Your Business Cash flow planning software is about more than simply impressing your investors and letting your employees know that you’re confident in the...

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Should Excel be Expelled?

What applications Excel should and should not be used for and why I just saw a great question followed by a discussion on the proformative.com site about whether Excel should be completely eliminated...

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The Ideal CFO Skills

What qualities are essential and what CFOs should really focus on There was a recent discussion topic on Proformative.com titled “The Ideal CFO Skills” .  It evolved from a question by a Proformative...

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Make a Covenant to Properly Plan your Company’s Financial Future

How not having the right tools can be disastrous A while back I wrote on this blog about forecasting the likelihood of a company meeting its loan covenants with its lenders Will you Breach your Loan...

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Why you Must Forecast your Balance Sheet – Part 1

It is not as hard as you think and the results will greatly justify the effort I have written several times on this blog about forecasting a company’s balance sheet and the many benefits one gets from...

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Why you Must Forecast your Balance Sheet – Part 2

It is not as hard as you think and the results will greatly justify the effort In the first part of this series we saw why we need to be able to forecast our company’s balance sheet. In this...

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Forecast and Monitor your Key Financial Ratios

How key financial ratios can be forecasted with Budget Maestro and Displayed in Analytics Maestro I recently posted a series of articles on this blog on the importance of forecasting a company’s...

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Forecast and Monitor your Loan Covenants Compliance

How loan covenant compliance can be forecasted with Budget Maestro and Displayed by Analytics Maestro   There has been a recent series of blog posts on this site of why companies must regularly...

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Those Hard to Forecast Numbers

Learn to use readily available data to forecast and display key financial information Readers of this blog have seen several posts focused on the importance of regularly forecasting things such as a...

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Does the Budget Process Need Changes?

Why the fundamental process is still valid but the outcome can be more useful and meaningful I’ve covered a lot of material in the last 2 years here in this blog. Most of the entries made reference to...

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The Candid Customer – An interview with PEL Supply About Budget Maestro

Q: Tell us about your business In 1944, Paul E. Leimkuehler lost his leg above the knee during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. While recovering from his wounds, he watched while his own...

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Should Finance Become an Analytics Powerhouse?

See why Finance finally has the right tools to excel in this function Recently there was a discussion on the Proformative.com site whether finance should take over analytics and own the process, the...

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Financial Planning and Analysis – Art or Science?

How technology reduces the “art” element in successful FP&A activities This morning I received an e-mail from Proformative.com inviting me to a webinar titled “The Art (and some Science) of Great...

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Is Excel Reporting a Wise Choice?

That depends on where the data comes from. I recently saw a comment by Randall Bolten to a Proformative webinar on Excel based reporting. Mr. Randall is author of the book “Painting with Numbers” which...

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Are you Still Forecasting Only your Revenue and Expenses? Part 1

Can you tell if the budget you just put together is achievable? If you are still budgeting and then re-forecasting only your revenue and expenses you may have run into a well known, yet often ignored...

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Are you Still Forecasting Only your Revenue and Expenses? Part 2

Can you tell if the budget you just put together is achievable? In part 1 of this series we saw why a forecasted Income Statement is insufficient when preparing a corporate plan and budget. In this...

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