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Browse featured stories and the latest posts on a variety of extended financial planning and analysis topics. 

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Best Practices for Financial Scenario Planning & Analysis

What is Financial Multi-Scenario Planning? With multi-scenario Planning, companies are able to analyze several potential business outcomes and forecast what overall performance would look like with each of these models. What would happen to sales?...

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Online Guide to Financial Planning & Analysis

Precise financial planning is an integral part of every business's success. It also takes a substantial amount of time and energy from the business's...

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How to Forecast Cash Flow in Uncertain Times

Nobody likes a budget that is far off target, especially when it could result in a liquidity crisis. Luckily, most companies rarely have to...

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How to Quickly Reforecast the Company Budget When the Unexpected Happens

It is easy to predict the future when it is business as usual. However, if your business environment is suddenly impacted by something like the...

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Streamline the Planning Process with Budgeting and Forecasting for Sage Intacct

If you have surveyed an audience of mid-market accounting and finance professionals, you almost always find that 90-95% primarily rely on manual...

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Differences Between EPM and CPM Software

The terms Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) are often used interchangeably. These two forms of...

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Financial Reporting in Power BI or in a CPM Solution?

If you have ever tried to build and maintain financial reports inside a visualization tool, the answer should be simple. Power BI works well for...

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How to Improve Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting

Are you dreading your company’s budgeting process? Are you manually exporting data from your ERP system to Excel and compiling numerous spreadsheets...

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How to Choose the Best CPM Vendor

We are all customers of a business. Whether you’re browsing Amazon for a home vacuum that doesn’t break down every year or picking out produce at...

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How to Use Workflows in Your Budgeting Process

This article will describe the value of using workflows for budgeting.

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