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Refining Your Budget in the New Fiscal Year
The month of January is a busy one for finance professionals with a December 31 year-end - closing the books, board reporting, regulatory...
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Quality Decks 101 - Communicating Your Budget
Last week, the article in our budget series covered selling your completed budget. In it, we suggested that you create a roadshow deck...
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Budget Story Telling
Your leadership team has finally agreed on a budget for next year. You are close, but it is not quite time to declare victory. ...
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Budget Negotiations
If you are a finance professional leading a budget exercise, chances are the bottom-up round submitted by your business lines won’t...
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Initiative Prioritization
Investing in your business is the lifeblood of future growth. Most organizations have plenty of ideas about what investments will propel...
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How to Tame Your Tech Budget
You’ve just rolled up your initial budget submissions, and your proposed technology budget is way off target. Ah yes, the joy of tech...
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Budgeting in an Uncertain Economy
Most of us have by now experienced budgeting in an economic crisis. Think about the financial crisis, now over a decade ago, or the more...
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Time to Start Budgeting
I know this sounds crazy, but if you are a finance professional in a company – whether publicly traded or not - now is the time to start...
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10 Common Budget Pitfalls
Although many organizations have shifted to continuous forecasting, the once a year budget exercise is still a common practice. Creating...
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Zero-Based Budgeting: Is Now the Time?
ZBB means that you start at zero and re-define your cost structure to support the business going forward.
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