Category: Data and Technology
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Beyond the P&L: Why Non-Financial Metrics Are Essential for Financial Planning in the Age of AI
The age of AI is here, and it’s fundamentally reshaping how we approach financial planning & analysis (FP&A). For years we’ve focused on the data that shows up on traditional financial statements – revenue, expenses, cash flows – when pulling together annual budgets and making forecast projections. Often we have built models around the concept…
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Sustainability Data is Business Data
Sustainability to Sustain your Business (and our Planet) In response to escalating concerns about climate change and social equity, a growing number of jurisdictions (most recently California and the European Union) have enacted E.S.G. (Environmental, Social, Governance) disclosure requirements for businesses, where “E”, “S” and “G” represent categories of financial and non-financial metrics that measure…
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Sustainability Data Strategy: Three Tips for Finance
The most widely used Sustainability (or E.S.G.) Data Management and Reporting tool today is the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is – by far – the most flexible tool available for ad-hoc data exploration, modeling, and reporting of quantitative (numeric) data. When there is a data problem and no other solution presents itself, a talented spreadsheet power-user…