How to streamline your budgeting and planning processes:
According to CFO Magazine 60% of Financial Professionals surveyed said their budgeting process takes too long. And only 17% of respondents to a Budgeting & Forecasting Study by Pricewaterhouse Cooper are very satisfied with their company’s budgeting process. What can you do to make this a more effective process?Our next CFO Peer Group session will give you a forum to discuss pains and share best practices while it’s still fresh.
Facilitated by:
Tracey Whitehouse- co facilitator of the CFO Peer Group and Vice Chair of the YTA
Contributing to November’s CFO peer group meeting will be Alastair McKeating – Regional Manager, Canada with Adaptive Planning. Alastair spent about 20 years in IT, focusing on Business Intelligence (BI) and strategic planning and the transformational aspects of applying the two together. Adaptive Planning is a SaaS solution for financial modeling, budgeting and analytics - see http://www.adaptiveplanning.com/index.php.
Grantley Smith is a Solution Advisor with TGO Consulting http://www.tgo.ca/ . Grantley has 20+ years of experience working with CFOs in many industries with their financial planning needs using a variety of tools from Excel to full Corporate Performance Management solutions.