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February 27, 2018

Stable Cash Flow is Key to Business Growth

By John Murdock, Chief Executive Officer

Any business owner will tell you that cash flow is important for a healthy business. Positive cash flow allows you to pay your employees’ wages, get business supplies and maintain your business so you can continually attract new–and retain old–customers. But cash flow is important...

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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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March 31, 2016

Rolling With the Punches: Don’t let Traditional Financial Forecasting Force You to Throw in the Towel

By Jason Lin, CFO

Whether you’re reading the Wall Street Journal or Sports Illustrated, one theme that keeps getting driven home to us these days is Consistency. The professionals in both business and sports know that to win, they must be on their game continually. They constantly monitor their...

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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

Don’t Be Deceived – Payroll Budgeting Tips You Need to Know

By Jason Lin, CFO

You’re deep into your year-end close and 2016 is looming in the shadows. To keep from being overwhelmed, isolating one piece of the pie to focus on is the best way I’ve found to manage my work when things get harried. The area I’d like...

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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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October 20, 2015

Advantages of Cloud-Based Business Budgeting Software

By Centage

Using spreadsheets and hard drive-based business budgeting software can keep a large volume of business data organized can be useful, but the advantages of a cloud-based solution are difficult to deny. From maintaining a single streamlined edition of the master file to permitting unlimited users...

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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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