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8 Great Ways To Improve Your Quarter-End Analysis and Reporting

Published March 7, 2011 @ 15:00 by Vinita in Best Practices

8 Great WaysAnother quarter-end... masses of data to analyze, complex reports to generate, and a critical deadline to get it all done!

Too often, finance departments face the same challenges at the end of every reporting period—whether it's month-end, quarter-end, or year-end.

During these periods, there are financial reports and statements such as balance sheets, cash flow statements, income statements, management reports, and even information about key performance indicators that need to be prepared during a short period of time. The more information required, the longer these tasks become!

Fear not: there are ways we can help!

In 8 Great Ways To Improve Your Quarter-End Analysis & Reporting, a free white paper from PROPHIX, you will find 8 tips and tricks to help you breeze through your reporting and financial analysis, and accurately adjust your forecasts.

Here's a sneak peak at these 8 tips:

  1. Prepare your financial and management reporting for review
  2. Manage distribution of your reports to key stakeholders
  3. Analyze your reports in a timely fashion
  4. Analyze the impact of your first quarter performance
  5. Perform variance analysis against plan and scenarios
  6. Prepare multiple re-forecasting scenarios
  7. Distribute re-forecasted plan and finalize approval
  8. Track ongoing results using scorecards and dashboards

To get a more detailed look at these 8 steps and more, download the entire white paper here.


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