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How To Use Leading and Lagging Indicators To Create an Early Warning System for Change
August 24, 2020
An early warning system is a set of data and processes that gives you insight into the market and ...
Ease of Use the #1 Driver of BPM Software Success, Survey Finds
June 17, 2020
According to BPM Partners' 2020 Pulse of Performance Management survey, finance teams prioritize ...
The 3 F's That Make for Better Forecasts in FP&A
May 29, 2020
There's an obvious difference between forecasts that come from the FP&A team and the weather ...
What Makes KPIs Meaningful: A Holistic Look
March 29, 2017
Even if you're investing in cloud-based tools to improve your reporting or analytics, the KPIs you ...
The Bright Side of All Those Finance Department Budget Cuts
March 23, 2017
Treating the budget as a ritual will no longer be an option. It will become something that rallies ...
How Cumming Cut their Reporting Cycle from 4 Weeks to 1 Day
February 27, 2017
Learn how Cummings Cut its reporting cycle from 4 weeks to 1 day by producing reports same day of ...
How to Overcome the Barriers to Automated Account Reconciliations
March 4, 2016
There are signs that account reconciliation is already surging past the tipping point where ...
The Top 5 Reasons the Annual Budget is Losing to Rolling Forecasts
February 17, 2016
If you're still on the fence, these are the top five reasons the annual budget is losing to the ...
This is Why There's No Such Thing as 'Good Enough' Account Reconciliation
February 3, 2016
Perfection may be unattainable, many finance departments have to do whatever they can to ensure ...
The Connection between Finance KPIs and Value Drivers All CFOs Must Make
January 28, 2016
Finance teams start by making correlations between the KPIs they track today and the things they ...
3 Ways to Start Thinking Differently About KPIs
January 22, 2016
It is wise to keep these guidelines in mind when considering which metrics are true KPIs, which to ...
How FP&A is Changing the Way Firms Think About Forecasting
January 7, 2016
FP&A won't a company overnight as teams gain experience, review reporting and adopt tools, the ...