It’s time to consider a new approach to Planning and Reporting for next FY

  At bi5 Solutions we consider ourselves very lucky to be here in WA, where we have (so far) largely dodged a bullet from the COVID-19 crisis However, after watching Four Corners on the...

Add more Power to Power BI – budgeting and forecasting

If you haven’t heard about Power BI, then it’s probably worth a Google Power BI is one of the, if not THE, leading Business Intelligence (BI) visualisation platforms around However it’s not...

Scenario Planning and What-if Analysis – more important than ever

The current and on-going COVID-19 crisis has created extraordinary uncertainty, amplifying but also complicating the finance teams' support role in the Decision Making Process of all businesses...

Cause and Effect in Business Analysis

No business runs smoothly without any problems and issues, either minor or major If this is not the case for you then count your blessings, or wake up from your dream...

Better Planning and Reporting – where and how to start

July 2020 Every Picture tells a story or does it I recently had a meeting with the founder of a very successful financial services organisation and we talked about my pet topic, planning and...

The Future of Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

May 2020 Ask most CFO's and finance directors to describe an ideal planning, budgeting and forecasting process, and they’ll likely portray it as part of an overall integrated performance...

More effective Business Intelligence with a Budgeting system

Business Intelligence (BI) is in essence Performance Analysis With the increased popularity and awareness of Business Intelligence many businesses are looking to implement BI systems to help...

Planning and BI is the way forward for CFO’s in challenging times

April 2020 Along with the severe health and humanitarian crisis we are experiencing at the moment CFO’s and other corporate executives face enormous business challenges; supply chain...

CFO’s can only control the things they can control

April 2020 It’s been about a month now since many of us have been working from home As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads and we all do our bit to ‘flatten the curve’ we are getting used to a...

CFO’s in a changing world – how the good ones get ahead

March 2020 We have always had to deal with uncertainty in life and in work, but the uncertainty we are facing now is of the kind none of us could ever have imagined (other than perhaps the...

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