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Driver-Based Planning in Excel: Is FP&A Actually Possible?
Driver-based planning is a forecasting approach where a budget or forecast is built from the underlying business activities that create it, such as...
Financial Reporting
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Solver xFiles: The Case of the Vanishing Financial Data
Welcome to xFiles, Solver's investigative video series that uncovers the most perplexing mysteries plaguing finance teams everywhere. Each episode...
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Why Most AI-FP&A Demos Look Impressive, and Fall Apart in Production
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...
6 min read
Why Mid-Market CFOs Choose Solver for Budgeting and Forecasting
Mid-market finance teams occupy a difficult position in the software market. Enterprise-grade planning platforms were built for organizations with...
5 min read
FP&A Dashboard for CEOs: Key Indicators for Better Decisions
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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What Is a Consolidated Financial Statement?
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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How Does Solver Enhance Reporting With Drill-Down?
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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Why Is P&L Analysis Critical for Identifying Margin Trends?
Profit and loss P&L analysis is how finance leaders determine not just whether the business made money, but where margins are expanding or...
6 min read
5 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your Financial Reporting Software
Financial reporting software is one of those tools that feels fine, until it doesn't. Teams build workarounds. Close cycles stretch. Spreadsheets...
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How Can Financial Consolidation Support Accurate Cash Flow Simulation?
Liz Anderson: Jun 19, 2026
Cash flow simulation is only as reliable as the forecast feeding it. That sounds obvious, but the gap between what finance teams know and what their...