As businesses of all sizes and industries grapple with historic levels of inflation, the aftermath of a global pandemic, and a looming recession, sales forecasting has become more critical than ever to provide businesses with insights into their future revenue. In fact, a study showed that companies that accurately forecast sales are 10%...
Category: Forecasting
Revenue and Profitability Guide for CFOs to Navigate Uncertainty
The goal of a finance office is to build bridges, break barriers, and enhance your sales, marketing, and FP&A teams. This can happen with the right forecasting software.
What AI Means to a Sales Leader
In a few years, sales leaders will ask what we ever did without artificial intelligence. The reality is that sales AI is changing the game for sales reps. It is making it easier than ever to identify and qualify leads, close more deals, and increase productivity. Sales AI provides real-time...
How Hypergrowth Companies Can Grow Their Sales Organizations
If you have a hypergrowth company, you know that explosive sales growth is essential to your success.But how do you go about scaling your sales organization to support that growth? This blog post will discuss some tips for growing your sales team rapidly. We'll also look at some of the...
What 5 things should CFO’s know today
You may have noticed it: This is a strange moment for businesses. On the one hand, economic growth is skyrocketing across the board. Demand is through the roof, and more and more people are attempting to get their lives back to some semblance of normal after more than two years...
Sales Forecast Navigator Gets an Update
ForecastEra’s Sales Forecast Navigator just got even better. Gaining insights to drive predictable sales performance has never been more accessible. Sales teams can be confident in forecasting with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models and influence paths to engage more closely with decision-makers. ForecastEra enhanced several Sales Forecast Navigator features to...
The Question that Keeps CFOs Awake at Night
Night terrors can strike CFOs no matter how big their company is. For many finance professionals, judgment day comes down to company value. So how can you drive value and revenue when it’s a challenge just to keep your business afloat? The answer: With advanced revenue analytics. You need real-time...
FP&A Forecasting: 5 Better Ways to Present 2022 Revenue Forecasts to Your CEO
Financial planning and analysis professionals are close to the C-suite but sometimes feel that they toil unappreciated in a dungeon. So how can the FP&A department make a difference? In the second part of our series on FP&A Forecasting Tips, we look at how to present the information you have gathered...
5 Ways To Gamechange FP&A’s Impact in 2022
Can you see the invisible financial KPIs that can grow or kill your company? Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is the only function capable of getting a comprehensive view across all departments. FP&A's job is extremely time-consuming because of departmental silos, and different KPIs. FP&A needs to work smarter and...
How FP&A Can Rescue Their CEOs
Predicting the future is always difficult, but now with markets and supply chains gyrating so quickly, it is nearly impossible. So Financial Planning & Analysis folks do what they’ve always done. They come to the rescue. A CEO isn’t asking for perfect predictions, just general directions about the landscape. FP&A...
How Deloitte Sees The Future of Forecasting
As a former CFO and analyst at PwC, I’ve learned to respect what Deloitte says about a topic, especially when that topic is near and dear to me like financial forecasting.Check out Deloitte’s analysis about financial planning and forecasting in today’s environment. Although it’s short, a few things jumped out...
12 Reasons Why CFOs Need to Dump Excel for Revenue Forecasting ASAP
You’re in a destructive spreadsheet relationship, and this is an intervention to rescue you. This old relationship is actively sabotaging you in ways that you’re not seeing. Worse, it is making promises it will never deliver. Like many CFOs, I fell in love with spreadsheets when I was a teenager....
How to Drive Better Revenue Forecasting with AI
As a former CFO, I know that revenue forecasting is a heavy lift, even for high-tech companies that think they already have their finger on the pulse of the marketplace. For most companies, there are two cumbersome and time-consuming steps: Assemble data from across your organization, from disparate sources, data...
ForecastEra Announces Revenue & Sales Forecasting Suite
As a former CFO, I know that accurate, real-time forecasts can make or break a company. That’s why I’m thrilled to announce major updates to ForecastEra Revenue Forecast Navigator and ForecastEra Sales Forecast Navigator. Separately, each native Salesforce application delivered breakthrough forecasts. Now, we’ve made them even more powerful by...