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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...

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May 20, 2015

A New Way to Look at Accounting Data

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

How a software solution changed the way I look at financial data. I usually don’t rush out to purchase the latest and greatest technology products; I hardly ever jump on every software or hardware upgrade that becomes available. I just seem to be happy with...

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April 29, 2015

Treat Every Month-End Close as if it Were a Quarter or Year-End Close

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

Why each monthly close should be as complete as practically possible Recently there was a great question on the Proformative.com site which reminded me of a similar situation I was in when working as a controller in the hi-tech industry. The question was: Do you...

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