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FORECASTING
Getting Team Buy-In on Rolling Forecasts
Resisting change is human nature. This is true of personal change as well as organizational …
ANALYTICS
Variance Analysis for Budgeting & Forecasting
Variance analysis is extremely important, and can definitely be more accurate and efficient…
BUDGETING
An Open Door – Where Security Falls Short with
Excel Budgets Using Excel for financial functions is on the decline, per the 2018 Benchmarking…
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business budgeting
By Jason Lin, Chief Financial Officer
For decades, the finance team's professional lives were governed by a fifth season: Budgeting. In late-summer team members began meeting with General Managers and department heads as part of the business budgeting process to assess revenue and expenses over the past 12 months, and make predictions as to what will happen in the future. That ...
business budgeting
By Jason Lin, Chief Financial Officer
Keeping Pace with the New Normal As a follow up to my blog from earlier this month, The New Normal: Financial Consolidation and Data Transformation, I concluded that as the impacts of the pandemic ease, there are some big questions corporate leadership are asking that require answers from the Finance team. And those answers demand ...
business budgeting
By Jason Lin, Chief Financial Officer
As CFOs and budget managers have continued to take more important roles in operations and decision making across organizations, so too has the budgeting and planning process evolved. This is where driver-based planning has achieved more traction over the traditional annual budgeting and planning process in many businesses. A driver-based approach works to identify key ...