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March 6, 2018

Stale Cash Flow Forecasts and Overdue Invoices: A Recipe for Disaster

By Jason Lin, CFO

Having a strong positive cash flow is the goal of every business. Knowing that you’ve got the resources available to run your business and handle any unexpected expenses helps business owners sleep at night. The question is, how do you maintain that flow once you’ve...

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February 13, 2018

Cash Flow Planning is a Company’s Secret Weapon Against Disruptors

By Jason Lin, Chief Financial Officer

The business world is no longer occupied with mere startups. Instead, we live in the age of disruptors – small, agile organizations with big ideas that are changing the world and the market that they are part of with new ideas and rapid adaptation to...

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February 9, 2016

Cash Flow Forecasting Best Practices

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

Earlier this year I participated in a discussion on the Proformative.com site, titled: Cash Flow Forecasting Best Practices. A Proformative member asked a question which is very common in many finance organizations: What are the best practices when it comes to developing a cash flow forecast...

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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 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...