xFP&A Blog

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

Planning (3)

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Monthly Reporting Process Best Practices

Monthly reporting is the natural culmination of the planning process, but it is not the end goal of the planning process. In fact, the planning,...

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Replacing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) with a Modern Cloud Solution

These days, more than ever, financial planning analysis (FP&A) managers need to deploy tools that can help them support their businesses with faster...

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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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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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Best Budgeting Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP Users Replacing Forecaster

Have you been using Forecaster to budget your finances? Microsoft recently made the announcement that Forecaster will not be available or supported...

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What-if Analysis and Modeling for Microsoft Dynamics

In this article, I’ll explore what-if analytics and modeling functionality built into some of today’s budgeting software for planning that accounts...

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Budgeting and Forecasting Tools for Sage Intacct

In this article, we’ll explore today’s budgeting and forecasting tool options, focusing on the best features and functions to improve your Sage...

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Modern Budgeting and Forecasting Options for Sage Intacct

This article will go into detail about the elements of investing in and implementing modern budgeting and forecasting solutions, with a focus on...

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