Plan for Today to Better Prepare for Tomorrow: Rolling Budgets & Rolling Forecasts
For most businesses, the current economic circumstances – and looking at what may lay ahead – haven’t just resulted in financial uncertainty, it’s also brought to light the inherent challenges with using conventional budgeting methodologies to track and anticipate future business performance. If companies want to be prepared for the months and years ahead and […]
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The Case for Data Integrations in FP&A Platforms
Business leaders need real-time insight into the business and how it’s performing. Specifically, they need to identify emerging trends — both positive and negative — as early as possible so that they can conduct what-if scenario testing, and make smarter and faster decisions about possible pivots. Static reports can’t meet this need. To begin, they’re […]
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Best Practice Tips to Impress in the Role of CFO
Once upon a time the role of CFO was focused on backward-looking data. However, these days, chief financial officers do a great deal more than financial reporting. Along with tracking cash flow and providing timely information, the best CFOs are strategizers, analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses from a financial perspective and helping direct decision […]
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How to Create a Flexible, Agile FP&A Function
Just as content is king in the world of marketing, when it comes to financial decision-making, data is everything. Unfortunately, many of today’s small and medium-sized businesses are making choices based on tools that lack the sophistication to provide accurate, up-to-the-minute information. If you want to outsell the competition, then upgrading your financial planning and […]
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What You Need to Know: Rolling Budgeting, Rolling Financial Forecasting, and Mid-Year Forecasts
The current economic circumstances haven’t just resulted in financial uncertainty for millions of Americans. They’ve also helped reveal the problems inherent in conventional budgeting methodologies. If companies want to improve their ability to anticipate future successes and failures, they need to adopt new means of prediction. With rolling forecasts, businesses can gain better insight while […]
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What SaaS Really Means for Modern FP&A
As a business leader, you’ve probably heard the term SaaS (Software as a Service) but may not fully understand what it means for finance teams or how it can enable you to run your company more efficiently and effectively. Given the current business environment, today’s finance leaders need to be agile and adjust their technology […]
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Get to Know Centage’s Brand-New Premium App for QuickBooks Online Advanced
The leading provider of modern cloud-based FP&A solutions for mid-sized organizations, Centage Corporation prides itself on empowering today’s financial leaders to better guide their organizations to success. In an effort to continue delivering the best possible services, Centage has teamed up with global technology firm Intuit Inc., the maker of QuickBooks Online Advanced, to bring […]
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Centage Planning Maestro: Innovating the Future of Finance
Back in 2019, Centage made waves when it announced the availability of Planning Maestro, the first-ever FP&A platform designed specifically for the mid-size market. Up until the release of Planning Maestro, only enterprise-sized companies could afford the expense of automated and intelligent cloud-based FP&A technologies. Centage made it its mission to change that. “Small and […]
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How to Read a Budget vs Actual Report
Every business needs a budget — but having a budget is just the start. In addition to making a budget every month, quarter, or year, you also need to compare that budget to what your company actually earns and spends. Without a comparison between your forecasted income and expenses and your company’s actual income and […]
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