Escaping the Month-End Nightmare

How technology can radically improve your reporting process. Let’s face it, month-end reporting can be a huge pain. This is especially true for middle market companies. As your business grows and becomes more complex, so do your monthly reporting packages. Oftentimes, this involves the painstaking process of tying together multiple data sources and heavy manual labor in Excel. Simply gathering all the data and ensuring 2+2=4 eats all of your time, and in the [...]

2023-12-06T17:25:50+00:00FP&A, Reporting|
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From Frightful to Delightful

Taylor Jackson Shares His Tips for Beautiful Monthly Reporting Packages Halloween is a great time for a good scare. Some people like to pull pranks. Others prefer haunted houses or scary movies. But one thing nobody likes is staring down at a monthly reporting package that looks like it was sewn together by Dr. Frankenstein. If you struggle with building aesthetically pleasing reporting packages in Excel, you’re not alone. Excel doesn’t exactly have a “Make [...]

2023-12-06T17:34:10+00:00Reporting|
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4 Ways to Simplify Data Analysis Through Technology

Time is the great equalizer. You can have all the intelligence, experience, expertise and data in the world, but without time, meaningful analysis is pretty much impossible. The Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 rule, sums up a conundrum the almost every analyst faces: 20% of the effort leads to 80% of the results, and 80% of the effort leads to 20% of the results. Most analysts will tell you they spend at least 80% of [...]

2023-12-06T17:35:48+00:00Data Analysis, FP&A|
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5 Ways to Save Time in Your Monthly Reporting Cycle

Pro Tips for Getting 1-2 Weeks of Your Month Back Using Catalyst®. Monthly reporting can take days, even weeks out of your month. Time is precious, and for many, the most frustrating part of the monthly reporting cycle is how little time you get to spend actually analyzing your reporting to make recommendations that add value to the business. That’s where Catalyst® by EBM Software comes into play. Not only does it automate many of [...]

2023-12-06T17:36:15+00:00FP&A, Reporting|
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