In previous blogs I have written a lot about modern Budgeting and Forecasting and the many benefits I recently watched a presentation from the CFO of a large Canadian gold mining company on how...

We have written a lot in recent blogs about FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) and it’s importance in successful companies and we have also written about the term XP&A (Extended...

It is becoming more obvious that finance and accounting be part of the business value-creation process and provide business advisory solutions on top of debits and credits, knowledge of...

  As outlined in part 1 of this 2 part blog, budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes need to change to keep up with your competitors and industry, particularly in challenging and...

  Budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes need to keep up with the pace of change in your business and industry and market conditions, especially in challenging times like we have, and...

Globally, it is estimated that companies have spent more than $12 trillion on digital reinvention and digitalization over the last few years The hard truth is that over 70% of those initiatives...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to revise carefully crafted strategies and budgets in preparation for the “next normal” One key question and challenge for top executives and...

EXCEL is here to stay “Siloed spreadsheet-based planning, complete with system crashes, version-control and many other issues, can no longer support today’s scale or pace of business Instead,...

I recently came across this article about CPM  systems on one of my favorite web sites, FP&A Trends, and I thought it was really good and well worth paraphrasing and localising and adding to...

When we are talking to prospective customers about the value of implementing an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution we are very often hit with the same statement … ‘we need to...