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| Title | Delivering better Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting |
| 12.00pm 12th October |
In today’s environment many organisations are looking at ways of moving from traditional budgeting to more agile planning and forecasting. For example they are considering moving from calendar based planning to rolling horizons, from pure financial estimates to driver based forecasts, from sequential and infrequent planning cycles to simultaneous and frequent processes, and from limited participation to broader enterprise wide involvement.
Typically businesses experience pains such as:
- Long planning cycles with missed deadlines
- Disconnects between Strategic & Tactical Plans
- Too many last minute changes from the Board
- Lack of qualitative information & general misunderstandings
- Little communication and collaboration
- No time for analysis of variances
- Lack of involvement of non financial managers
- Difficult to view trends or seasonality
- Difficult to carry out “What-if” analysis & modelling
- No way of monitoring the planning process
- Need for integrated reporting & analysis against KPI’s
All of these factors can severely undermine decision-making in the enterprise and its ability to respond to change.
In this webinar we will be discussing how you can address these issues through automated workflow, the integration of the top down assumptions and bottom up procedures, how to make global changes quickly and easily and to expand your submissions to take in commentary & explanation. We will look at how you can deliver capabilities for fast extrapolation of trends, predict future effects of changes, empower business managers to participate in the planning process and deliver reports through a Dashboard or Balanced Scorecard framework as required.
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If you have any specific requests or suggestions for a webinar please contact David Smart at Foundation on 020 8238 6459 or david.smart@foundationsystems.co.uk
