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August 28, 2018

Making the Business Case for FP&A Software

By Jason Lin, Chief Financial Officer

If you’re looking to convince your organization that there is a need for FP&A software, it may seem like an uphill battle. For many organizations, Excel is deeply embedded in the planning and budgeting process. Convincing your company to spend money on new software when...

analysis, budget maestro, budgeting and forecasting software, scenario planning, what-if analysis, what-if scenario

January 22, 2016

Make Faster, Better Decisions: How to Use Your Budgeting Tool for What-If Analysis

By Jason Lin, CFO

The budgeting process for most companies occurs over several months. You prepare the budget model by adapting last year’s Excel spreadsheets, plan and distribute them to each department head, and answer their questions about how to use it. Then, once they’re done, you proceed with...

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October 7, 2015

How to Easily Manage Software License Renewals

By Alan Hart, Centage Guest Blog Author, Principal Consultant at Pacific Shine Group

How you can have Planning Maestro manage this task with ease and accuracy All organizations rely on software products in their daily operations across all departments and business segments. Enterprise software ranges from ERP, accounting and finance applications to engineering, CAD, CAM, marketing and sales...

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September 1, 2015

Financial Planning and Analysis – Art or Science?

By Alan Hart, Centage Guest Blog Author, Principal Consultant at Pacific Shine Group

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 FP&A”. I am glad to see a resurgence of such an important facet in any company’s...

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July 27, 2015

Forecast and Monitor your Loan Covenants Compliance

By Alan Hart, Centage Guest Blog Author, Principal Consultant at Pacific Shine Group

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 forecast their balance sheets Why you Must Forecast your Balance Sheet Part 2....

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July 22, 2015

Forecast and Monitor your Key Financial Ratios

By Alan Hart, Centage Guest Blog Author, Principal Consultant at Pacific Shine Group

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 balance sheet and how the financial health of the organization can be predicted...

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July 14, 2015

Why you Must Forecast your Balance Sheet – Part 2

By Alan Hart, Centage Guest Blog Author, Principal Consultant at Pacific Shine Group

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 installment we will see examples of...

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July 7, 2015

Why you Must Forecast your Balance Sheet – Part 1

By Alan Hart, Centage Guest Blog Author, Principal Consultant at Pacific Shine Group

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 it. If this is so beneficial, then why...

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June 23, 2015

The Ideal CFO Skills

By Alan Hart, Centage Guest Blog Author, Principal Consultant at Pacific Shine Group

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 member trying to get a better understanding of what CFOs should devote their time to...