Improve Financial Planning and Budgeting Processes by Leveraging Operational Data

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Today’s finance leaders have greater access to solutions and technologies that can leverage operational data in real-time to make more timely decisions and create long-term value for their organizations. In spite of these advancements, company budgets and forecasts are still often out of alignment or even at odds with strategic objectives. Why is this the case? How can your company adopt the right approach to operational and strategic planning that drives profitable growth? Join us as industry experts share how their companies overcame common challenges to reap the benefits of augmenting operational data in their planning process. They will discuss tried and true methods for integrating operational data into your company’s planning cycles while efficiently using complex transactional data to improve financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Learn how other companies are leveraging real-time planning that scales for large data sets and allows for advanced process improvements, including building modeling scenarios on the fly, developing business rules naturally, and deploying lightweight, flexible budgeting and planning processes.

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Improve Financial Planning
and Budgeting Processes by
Leveraging Operational Data

Learning Objectives
After attending this event you will be able to:
• Understand current technology trends and tactics that fuel
competitive advantage through improved financial planning
processes
• Discover how to better align company forecasts with
strategic objectives
• Learn how to avoid drowning in extraneous data and focus
on key operational data
• Identify ways to effectively engage operational and
planning stakeholders across the enterprise

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Common Problems
• Lack of Pertinent Problems
• Lack of Timely insights into operational themes
• Data Views are Rigid and too high level for Finance Team

How they Can Get There
Step 1: Define your business, including what’s important
to your business
Step 2: Define Existing planning approaches
Step 3: Define existing data and data types
Step 4: Define Data Gathering Approaches
Step 5: Define a Target Data Model and Access
Approach
Step 6: Select and Implement Tools
Step 7: Measure Value

Improving Financial Planning and Budgeting
Processes by Leveraging Operational Data
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