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AI Expense Management Software: Policy Enforcement That Employees Don’t Hate
By Nathan Rowan | Dec 15 2025
Why Expense Reporting Still Creates Friction Expense reporting is painful for employees and finance teams alike. Employees dread manual entry, and finance dreads chasing missing receipts and enforcing policy. AI expense management software reduces ... Read More
AI in FP&A: From Static Spreadsheets to Adaptive Financial Forecasting
By Nathan Rowan | Dec 10 2025
Why Finance Teams Are Outgrowing Spreadsheet-Only Forecasts Finance and FP&A teams are under pressure to forecast revenue, costs and cash with more precision and speed. Spreadsheets are flexible, but they don’t scale well when ... Read More
Rolling Forecasts: How Finance Can Ditch the Annual Budget and Stay Ahead of Change
By Nathan Rowan | Dec 02 2025
Why the Annual Budget Is Showing Its Age The traditional annual budget cycle is slow, political and often outdated by the time it is approved. Finance teams spend months debating line items, locking in ... Read More
The Last Mile of Finance: Automating Board Books, MD&A and Narrative Reporting
By Nathan Rowan | Dec 02 2025
Why the “Last Mile” Still Feels Manual Even when ERP and consolidation systems are in place, the final step of financial reporting—building board decks, MD&A, lender packages and management reports—often happens in Word, PowerPoint ... Read More
Modernizing Your SOX Program: From Spreadsheet Jungle to Control Intelligence
By Nathan Rowan | Dec 02 2025
Why SOX Still Hurts More Than It Should Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has been around for years, yet many public companies still manage their internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) using ... Read More
Finance Dashboards Executives Actually Use: From Static Reports to Live KPIs
By Nathan Rowan | Dec 02 2025
Why Static Reports Don’t Cut It Anymore Finance teams produce impressive decks at month-end—pages of tables, charts and commentary. But by the time executives receive them, the data is already stale. When leadership wants ... Read More
Designing a Fast Close: How Finance Software Turns Month-End Into a Non-Event
By Nathan Rowan | Dec 02 2025
Why Month-End Still Feels Like a Fire Drill Despite better tools, month-end close remains stressful for many finance teams. Journal entries pile up in the last few days. Spreadsheets bounce between departments. Late adjustments ... Read More
Cost Allocation Without the Fights: How Finance Can Make Shared Services Feel Fair
By Nathan Rowan | Dec 02 2025
Why Overhead Feels “Unfair” to the Business Finance, HR, IT, facilities and legal all provide services that support revenue-generating teams—but don’t directly produce revenue themselves. When these shared services costs are allocated to business ... Read More
Building a Finance Data Hub: Why FP&A Needs a Semantic Layer, Not Just More Spreadsheets
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 19 2025
Every urgent finance request — a new report, a last-minute analysis — typically starts with the same question: “Where is the data?” When ERP, CRM, HR and operational systems each hold a slice of the ... Read More
Capex Portfolio Planning: Using FP&A Software to Prioritize Investments Under Uncertainty
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 19 2025
Capital expenditures — new plants, equipment, IT systems or acquisitions — can define a company’s trajectory for years. Yet many organizations still evaluate proposals in isolation using static spreadsheets and rough NPV calculations. A portfolio-based ... Read More