analysis, financial planning, financial planning software, FP&A

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...

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financial planning, financial planning software, FP&A

Your FP&A Software Needs These Features

By Centage

In Ventana Research’s recent finance benchmark report, only 24% of those surveyed reported issues with their planning and budgeting software. At face value, it seems as if most FP&A departments are happy with their software, even if it’s the tried-and-true, but much maligned spreadsheet. However,...

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financial analysis, financial dashboards, financial planning, financial planning software, FP&A

The Budget Process: FP&A Software vs Spreadsheets

By sarah

Imagine what it felt like when companies first started to move from pen and paper budgets and planning to spreadsheets. The ability to quickly change data and see a cascading effect thanks to formulas must have been life changing. It looked and acted like a...

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business budgeting software, financial analysis, financial planning software, FP&A

Workday Acquires Adaptive Insights: What This Could Signal for FP&A

By John Murdock, Chief Executive Officer

The FP&A ( financial planning and analysis) world received some big news in mid-June. Corporate and enterprise performance management juggernaut, Workday, announced that it would acquire business planning solution provider Adaptive Insights. The two companies plan to finalize the merge later in 2018, with Workday...

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financial forecasting, financial planning software, forecasting, rolling financial forecast, rolling financial forecasting, rolling planning

Getting Team Buy-In on Rolling Forecasts

By Centage

Resisting change is human nature. This is true of personal change as well as organizational change. One of the reasons people resist change is because of a fear of the unknown – they aren’t sure how a change in their workflow will work, how it...

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budgeting, cash flow, cash flow analysis, cash flow budgeting, financial planning software

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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financial planning software

How Higher Ed is Raising the Bar for Financial Planning

By Jason Lin, CFO

Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States One of the exciting things that happens as we enter a new year is observing the buzz in the air as a new crop of students enter their final stretch toward receiving their...

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budgeting and forecasting software, business budgeting software, cash flow budgeting, financial planning software, forecasting, personnel planning, spreadsheets

The Last Day of the Accounting Period Phenomenon

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

Is shipping on the last day of the month that important and at any cost? In my work in management consulting in the areas of accounting and finance I get involved with many client companies’ financial statement preparation, disclosure work and internal control (plus internal...

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analysis, budget maestro, budget software, budgeting, budgeting and forecasting software, budgeting and planning, budgeting software, business budgeting software, cash flow, cash flow analysis, cash flow budgeting, cash flow reporting, financial planning software, forecasting, payroll planning, personnel planning, quickbooks, scenario planning, spreadsheets, variance analysis, what-if analysis, what-if scenario, workforce planning

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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