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How Agile is Corporate Forecasting?

Jet Global

The results of the FSN’s Agility in Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (PBF) Survey 2021 analyzes the performance and agility of the PBF processes across over 500 organizations. They show that, on the whole, we forecast more quickly than we did four years ago, but that forecast accuracy has deteriorated. Enable cookies.

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The Characteristics of Those Using Rolling Forecasts

Jet Global

The results of the recent FSN’s Agility in Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (PBF) Survey 2021 clearly shows how implementing rolling forecasts helps organizations to improve both forecast speed and accuracy. However, rolling forecasts are not something you can create and manage in spreadsheets.

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The Art of Financial Storytelling

Jet Global

The reports created within static spreadsheets are based on a snapshot of reality, taken the moment the data was exported from ERP. Microsoft Excel offers flexibility, but it’s missing so many of the elements required to assemble data quickly and easily for powerful (and accurate) financial narratives.

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Become a Financial Storyteller

Jet Global

The reports created within static spreadsheets are based on a snapshot of reality, taken the moment the data was exported from ERP. Microsoft Excel offers flexibility, but it’s missing so many of the elements required to assemble data quickly and easily for powerful (and accurate) financial narratives.

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Top Financial Reporting Challenges and How to Solve Them

Jet Global

There is yet another problem with manual processes: the resulting reports only reflect a snapshot in time. That undermines confidence in the finance team’s ability to produce accurate reports, and it can ultimately lead to bad business decisions. As soon as you export data from your ERP software or other business systems, it’s obsolete.

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Ditch Manual Data Entry in Favor of Value-Added Analysis with CXO

Jet Global

Imagine that you want to look at sales forecasts, the current sales pipeline, year-to-date sales and prior years’ sales to understand how the company is performing relative to committed targets. All of that in-between work–the export, the consolidation, and the cleanup–means that analysts are stuck using a snapshot of the data.

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Discover Efficient Data Extraction Through Replication With Angles Enterprise for Oracle

Jet Global

It provides consistency in data for reporting purposes, as you are working with snapshots of the data at a particular point in time. Advantages : Replication reduces the load on source systems because data extraction occurs at predefined intervals, reducing the real-time impact on production systems.