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Consolidated Data Fosters a Collaborative Budgeting and Planning Process

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An effective budgeting and planning (B&P) process has always been a team sport for finance departments and their stakeholders. This shift towards strategic planning adds a new layer of complexity to the collaborative nature of budgeting. This collective knowledge leads to more realistic and well-rounded plans.

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The Characteristics of Those Using Scenario Planning

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According to the recent FSN’s Agility in Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (PBF) Survey 2021, the effective use of scenario planning enables organizations to respond quickly and confidently during times of extreme change. Check out this infographic to discover all the characteristics of those using scenario planning.

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What is Account Reconciliation?

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Check out our webinar on self-service subledger reconciliations for a quick primer on when and how to best use self-service subledger reconciliations for your organization. Hubble Best Practices: Self Service Subledger Reconciliations Download Now Why Do We Need to Reconcile Accounts?

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

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Embedded analytics are a set of capabilities that are tightly integrated into existing applications (like your CRM, ERP, financial systems, and/or information portals) that bring additional awareness, context, or analytic capability to support business decision-making. The Business Services group leads in the usage of analytics at 19.5

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Five Enterprise Planning Best Practices

Insight Software

Enterprise planning is going mainstream, as powerful yet affordable software technology has provided the means for small and midsize companies to develop highly collaborative, cross-functional approaches to strategic planning, governance, budgeting, operational planning, and more. Plan for Agility and Adaptability.

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Is Self-Service BI a Hollow Promise or Crucial Capability?

Insight Software

Self-service’ capabilities like Self-Service BI are the manifestation of this expectation within many technologies. Those who embed these tools without doing their due diligence will find themselves mired in IT requests to get self-service BI up and running. Put simply, ‘self-service’ relates to true autonomy.

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Why Smart CFOs Are Transforming the Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Process (PBF)

Insight Software

FSN’s most recent research, “Agility in Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting” , confirms and quantifies the compelling advantages of modernizing and digitizing the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process. Creating agile scenario plans and rolling forecasts is simply not feasible in spreadsheets.