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Liz Anderson: Nov 4, 2026
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is the corporate finance function responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and analyzing financial performance...
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The tools worth considering in this category share four traits: a native Excel interface rather than an Excel export or import layer, a centralized...
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Driver-based planning is a forecasting approach where a budget or forecast is built from the underlying business activities that create it, such as...
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Welcome to xFiles, Solver's investigative video series that uncovers the most perplexing mysteries plaguing finance teams everywhere. Each episode...
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I've sat through a lot of AI-FP&A demos in the last twelve months. The good ones are genuinely impressive. An agent reads a variance, generates a...
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Mid-market finance teams occupy a difficult position in the software market. Enterprise-grade planning platforms were built for organizations with...
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Liz Anderson: Jul 29, 2026
The right CEO dashboard does not summarize everything. It surfaces the handful of numbers that, if they moved in the wrong direction, would demand...
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Liz Anderson: Jul 20, 2026
A consolidated financial statement is a set of financial reports, typically an income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, that...
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Financial reports answer what happened. Drill-down reporting answers why. That distinction matters most the moment leadership needs to act on a...
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Profit and loss P&L analysis is how finance leaders determine not just whether the business made money, but where margins are expanding or...
