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July 3, 2018

Beware the Error: How Spreadsheets Can Ruin Trust with Leadership

By Jason Lin, Chief Financial Officer

Any leader will tell you that trust is a critical component of business. Customers respond positively to businesses they trust, and abandon those they don’t. Good managers spend at least part of their day building and establishing trust with their employees. Employees know that company...

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January 23, 2018

Financial Forecasting for Balance Sheets

By Centage

If you read this blog with any kind of regularity, you know that we feel pretty strongly about the importance of financial forecasting. Budgets are valuable assets, a direct line of sight into the health of your business — as long as you take the...

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January 3, 2018

Are Rolling Financial Forecasts Right for Nonprofits?

By Centage

Businessman standing with rolling dice around, Business risk concept.3D rendering. The world we live in today changes more quickly than any time in our history. Access to information and news can cause people’s opinions and actions to turn on a dime. The financial position of...

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May 26, 2017

Impressions from the First Budget Maestro Annual User Conference

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

A memorable experience and confirmed realizations I just got back home from the first Budget Maestro Annual User Conference. The event took place at the beautiful Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, Mass., overlooking the Charles River with the Boston skyline in the background. With hot but...

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June 17, 2016

How To Successfully Handle Changes in Customer Demand

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

I’ve been writing in this blog about how small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) can put Planning Maestro to use and have a year-round practical tool that can be used effectively unlike the “let’s finish the budget preparation chore and shelve it until next year” approach...

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April 7, 2016

The Secret to Streamlining Project-based Business Budgeting

By Jason Lin, CFO

Professional service firms and their corporate counterparts have the interesting challenge of creating proposals, managing projects, and staying within budget, all without producing a physical product. Client and project-based work is the bread and butter of consultants, accountants, financial advisers, project managers, and a myriad...

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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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January 13, 2016

The Benefits of an All-Encompassing Budget

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

Why using inadequate tools and approximating the balance of forecasted Balance Sheet accounts is a bad approach for budgeting I recently had a discussion with a colleague who is a partner in a local management consulting firm about organizations’ attitude toward the planning and budgeting...

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January 12, 2016

The Dreaded Statement of Cash Flows

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

How you can automatically generate an actual Statement of Cash Flows regardless of what ERP software you use Those who have experienced the manual preparation of a Statement of Cash Flows using beginning and period end Balance Sheets plus a periodic Income Statement know that...

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