May 31, 2019
System Integration: Why You Need to Treat Your FP&A Tool Like a Baseball Lineup
Summer is almost here, and baseball season is in full swing. For me, one of the most fascinating parts of the game is how a manager resets their lineup each day based on a variety of factors. Who’s hot or who’s injured? Who’s expected to play on the other team? Are you playing in a …
May 20, 2019
Armanino Clients Selected as Finalists for Adaptive Insights Torchie Awards
The Armanino team is excited to see three amazing customers on the list of finalists for the Adaptive Insights Torchie Awards this year. The 7th annual Torchie Awards honor Adaptive Insights users in categories for: Exceptional Collaboration Excellence in Functional Planning Best Use of Dashboards and Analytics Greatest Improvement in Forecasting Largest Business Impact Outstanding …
July 31, 2018
Power Up Your ERP With Financial Planning & Analysis
Are you getting as much value out of your ERP as you could be? Platforms like Sage Intacct and Microsoft Dynamics allow you to better manage your business and automate some processes, but they aren’t designed for financial planning & analysis―and the reporting tools that come out of the box with ERP systems sometimes don’t …
May 9, 2018
How to Plan Finance Allocations: Why Less Is More
Do you really understand your profitability from the products or services you provide? There’s more to the story than total sales at the end of the year. Incurred costs to develop, test, market and manage your product or service have a huge effect on the overall profitability of your company. If you’re undercutting your competition’s …
November 2, 2017
How to Create a New Budget Process Using Process Tracker in Adaptive Insights
It’s that time of year when the weather starts to cool down, leaves change colors, and the smell of pumpkin spice lattes fills the air. Yup, it’s budget season! As many financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams know, one of the pain points of budget season is getting budget owners up to speed (again) on …
March 9, 2017
Why Financial Planning Details Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing
Financial planning and analysis solutions have come a long way in recent years, moving design and administration away from IT and into the hands of the CFO organization. These next-generation tools can be very flexible and give users the ability to design models that are extremely detailed. The shift of control to Finance is obviously …
July 12, 2016
Empowering Your Financial Planning & Analysis Organization
As the business environment becomes increasingly complex, organizations need their financial planning & analysis (FP&A) resources to focus on analysis and strategic development, rather than the distribution of canned financial reports and budget templates. At the same time, managers in every level of the organization must have access to key financial and performance indicators to …
Empowering Your Financial Planning & Analysis Organization
As the business environment becomes increasingly complex, organizations need their financial planning & analysis (FP&A) resources to focus on analysis and strategic development, rather than the distribution of canned financial reports and budget templates. At the same time, managers in every level of the organization must have access to key financial and performance indicators to …