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What's Broken about Budgeting?
September 4, 2018 | 1,197
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By Gary Cokins, Founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management

Gary Cokins (Cornell University BS IE/OR, 1971; Northwestern University Kellogg MBA 1974) is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and enterprise performance and risk management systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina at www.garycokins.com .

He began his career in industry with a Fortune 100 company in CFO and operations roles. He then worked 15 years in consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS. From 1997 until recently Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics and intelligence software.

His two most recent books Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap (ISBN 0-471-57690-5) and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics (ISBN 978-0-470-44998-1). Mr. Cokins can be contacted at gcokins@garycokins.com .

LinkedIn account: www.linkedin.com/pub/gary-cokins/0/15a/949

 

How many people in your organization love the annual budgeting process? Probably none. The mere mention of the word "budget"

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  2. FP&A Technology
5 Myths around Automation in FP&A
September 3, 2018 | 2,009

Many believe that one of the future roles of Finance, and FP&A, specifically, will be to provide real-time, data-driven decision

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  1. FP&A Analytics
  2. Financial Planning and Analysis
  3. AI in FP&A
  4. Rolling Forecast
Unlocking the Value in FP&A Data Science & Analytics
August 31, 2018 | 2,808
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By Emmanuel Jibodu, Finance Analytics @ Shred-it​

This is the second part of a three-part series that focuses on the business value that data science & analytics

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  1. Financial Planning and Analysis
  2. FP&A Strategic Planning
  3. Planning and Budgeting
  4. FP&A Scenario Planning
Go The Extra Mile In Investment Decision Business Cases
August 30, 2018 | 529

Strategic investment decision-making involves the process of identifying, evaluating and selecting among projects that are likely to have significant impact

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  1. Financial Planning and Analysis
  2. Planning and Budgeting
  3. Beyond Budgeting
The Budget Problems - More than Irritating Itches
August 29, 2018 | 1,613
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By Bjarte Bogsnes, Founder of Bogsnes Advisory

Over the twenty years that I have worked with Beyond Budgeting, I have asked tens of thousands of managers and

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  1. Financial Planning and Analysis
  2. Cost Planning
  3. Driver-Based Planning
  4. Planning and Budgeting
A Passionate Appeal for Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
August 28, 2018 | 1,259
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By Gary Cokins,  Founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management

Gary Cokins (Cornell University BS IE/OR, 1971; Northwestern University Kellogg MBA 1974) is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and enterprise performance and risk management systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina at www.garycokins.com .

He began his career in industry with a Fortune 100 company in CFO and operations roles. He then worked 15 years in consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS. From 1997 until recently Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics and intelligence software.

His two most recent books Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap (ISBN 0-471-57690-5) and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics (ISBN 978-0-470-44998-1). Mr. Cokins can be contacted at gcokins@garycokins.com .

LinkedIn account: www.linkedin.com/pub/gary-cokins/0/15a/949

 

Usually I am fairly rational and do not let my personal emotions interfere with how I interact with others. However

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