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SF Magazine: CFO to CFO: Staying the Strategic Course in Crisis

“Data analytics is critical to understanding the business at any point in time and very helpful in terms of being able to develop your pandemic response, stay ahead of trends, understand what your short-term forecast should be, and develop the longer-term forecasts.”

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CFO Journal: Automated Financial Forecasting: Upgrading Talent Models

“Functional finance expertise alone is not enough. To architect a finance function to achieve continuous forecasting, it is critical for the CFO to instill a bias for data-based decision making, continuous improvement of data and predictive models, and a passion for technology enablement.”

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Harvard Business Review: Setting Your Annual Budget Amid Economic Uncertainty

“What would a mild, moderate, and severe downturn do to your business as a whole and to each part? Get specific. Where are you most vulnerable to inflation? A drop in demand? A supply-chain snarl? What actions would you take in each case? Who should take them?”

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FP&A Trends: FP&A Needs to Be More Prominent at the Executive Table than Ever

“Planning is an absolute business imperative, and organisations are striving to be more intelligent and agile in the world, where black swan events are becoming a new normal.

In order to achieve that, we need to get into a state where people and plans are completely aligned, but so far, people are planning in silos with spreadsheets and disconnected tools.”

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