FP&A Done Right: 3 Ways to Improve Collaboration with Colleagues Outside of Finance
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how to improve collaboration between the Office of Finance and business managers. Many companies suffer from poor communication and collaboration between financial and nonfinancial managers. Operating managers don’t have sufficient…
July 23, 2021
Extending Revelwood’s Office of Finance Offerings with Blackline
These are exciting times here at Revelwood! We’ve spent the past 25 years working with the Office of Finance on enterprise planning – specifically, designing and implementing solutions based on IBM Planning Analytics, Workday Adaptive Planning, and our own accelerator tools and…
July 13, 2021
FP&A Done Right: 3 Strategic Skills for FP&A Leaders
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, recommending strategic skills for FP&A leaders. You stay late to meet your deadlines. You triple-check your reports to keep them error-free. You turn around one-off requests at the drop of…
July 9, 2021
FP&A Done Right: Is Your Planning Process Hindering Decision Making?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how and why you should foster a culture of planning. Long planning cycles. Short-lived plans. Siloed efforts. Hard-to-find errors. And never enough time for strategic analyses. Do these FP&A…
June 18, 2021
FP&A Done Right: Volatile Business Conditions Require Agile Planning
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how to lay the groundwork for business agility. Manual, spreadsheet-based planning may have worked well enough in a more predictable age. But today? Not so much. Volatile conditions demand a…
June 4, 2021
FP&A Done Right: Accurate Forecasting = Insightful Decisions
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how great financial forecasts can guide business strategy. If 2020 taught CFOs anything, it’s that they need well-executed financial forecasts and models from their FP&A team. Accurate forecasts help finance leaders…
May 21, 2021
FP&A Done Right: 3 Steps for Selecting your KPIs
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how to identify the most appropriate KPIs for your organization. Now more than ever, companies that are unable to adapt or pivot easily to adjust to changing market conditions…
May 7, 2021
FP&A Done Right: 5 Ways Dashboards Empower The Office of Finance
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, exploring how to unlock hidden opportunities with dashboards & analytics. Visualizing data is often the fastest way to identify trends and patterns that lead to insights and better decision making.…
April 23, 2021
FP&A Done Right: What Type of CFO Are You?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning. It is part 1 in a two-part series on the changing role of the CFO. Finance has gained new perspectives from the impact of COVID-19, which has created the imperative…