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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 Sherman Hsieh | Dec 02 2025
How to allocate shared services costs fairly in 2026: compare percentage, driver-based, chargeback, and activity-based methods, plus the FP&A software that keeps the model transparent. 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
Value Driver Trees: How FP&A Software Connects KPIs to Strategy
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 18 2025
Most finance teams track dozens — sometimes hundreds — of KPIs. But when everything is a priority, nothing is. Value driver trees provide a structured way to connect a few high-level outcomes (growth, margin, cash) ... Read More
Building a Finance Data Hub: Why FP&A Needs a Semantic Layer, Not Just More Spreadsheets
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 17 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 17 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
Bridging Treasury and FP&A: Building a Single View of Cash, Liquidity and Risk
By Nathan Rowan | Nov 17 2025
FP&A forecasts the P&L; treasury protects the balance sheet. In many organizations, the two functions work in parallel rather than together. Treasury builds cash and liquidity forecasts in one system, while FP&A models revenue and ... Read More