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Finance Dashboards Executives Actually Use: From Static Reports to Live KPIs
Posted Dec 02 2025 by Nathan Rowan
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
Posted Dec 02 2025 by Nathan Rowan
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
Posted Dec 02 2025 by Nathan Rowan
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
Subscription Accounting 101: How Finance Can Keep Up with Recurring Revenue Models
Posted Dec 01 2025 by Nathan Rowan
Why Recurring Revenue Breaks Traditional Accounting Habits Subscription and recurring revenue models have moved far beyond SaaS. Manufacturers, media companies and even industrial firms are launching usage-based and subscription offerings. These models are great ... Read More
Cash Flow Forecasting That Finance Actually Trusts: How to Move Beyond Spreadsheet Guesswork
Posted Dec 01 2025 by Nathan Rowan
Why Profit Doesn’t Guarantee You Won’t Run Out of Cash It’s entirely possible to show healthy profits in your P&L and still run into a cash crunch. Timing differences between revenue and collections, inventory ... Read More
From Paper to Touchless: How AP Automation Cuts Costs and Strengthens Controls
Posted Dec 01 2025 by Nathan Rowan
Why Manual AP Is a Hidden Tax on Your Finance Team Accounts payable (AP) is where supplier relationships, cash management and internal controls intersect. When AP is manual—paper invoices, email approvals, hand-keyed data—finance teams ... Read More
From Invoices to Cash: How AR Automation Shrinks DSO and Strengthens the Balance Sheet
Posted Dec 01 2025 by Nathan Rowan
Why Accounts Receivable Is More Than “Money Owed” Accounts receivable (AR) is often treated as a back-office function: send invoices, post payments, chase stragglers. But AR performance directly affects cash flow, borrowing ... Read More
Global ERP Done Right: Multi-Entity, Multi-Currency and Local Tax Without the Headache
Posted Nov 21 2025 by Nathan Rowan
Why Growing Companies Outgrow Single-Entity ERP Many businesses start with a single-entity ERP setup and a simple chart of accounts. Then growth happens: new subsidiaries, acquisitions, joint ventures and sales offices in other countries. Suddenly ... Read More
Embedded Analytics in ERP: Turning Transactions into Real-Time Decisions
Posted Nov 21 2025 by Nathan Rowan
Why “Export to Excel” Isn’t a Strategy ERP systems are full of valuable data — orders, inventory, production, projects, invoices, payments. Yet in many organizations, the default workflow is still: run a standard report, dump ... Read More
ERP Change Management: How to Avoid a Costly System That Nobody Uses
Posted Nov 21 2025 by Nathan Rowan
Why the Human Side of ERP Matters More Than the Software ERP failures rarely come from bad code. They come from misaligned expectations, rushed processes and users who feel a system was “done to them,” ... Read More