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Jeana has been in the software industry for 13+ years specializing in ERP reporting solutions. She has decades of experience in creative content development and marketing and enjoys exercising, traveling & spending time with her husband & twin boys.

Top 7 Best Cyber Security Practices To Keep Your Data Safe

Effective data security is critical in our modernized digital world. Preparing today for the threats of tomorrow is an absolute necessity. In our last blog, we discussed why cybersecurity should matter to more than just the IT department: it must matter specifically to the CFO, as he/she is the one accountable to a company for ...

CFO’s: Is Your Cyber Security Ready For The Next Decade? Why It Must Matter To You

You must prepare today for the threats of tomorrow. Effective data security is critical in today’s digital world. And it’s no longer just a concern or function for your IT department. It must now be a priority for CFOs, as you’re the ones accountable to your organization for its financial health and best suited to ...

The Top 8 Best Practices To Ensure Good Data In Spreadsheet Financial Reporting

Given the brutal fact that using spreadsheets for complex financial reporting is putting companies’ financial positions at risk, let’s look at the picture of absolute musts for maintaining spreadsheet use. Organizations need to be performing formal quality control of their spreadsheet reports due to the proven error rates and programming-level complexities necessary for spreadsheet development. ...

How To Create New Year’s Goals Guaranteed To Stick

It’s not just the beginning of a new year, but also the beginning of a new decade. We’ve officially rung in 2020. Feeling the pressure to do something BIG with your life & your business? If you haven’t already, now is the time to create and execute your vision for this next year and beyond. ...

Spreadsheet Use & Human Bias: Why Both Are Putting Your Company At Financial Risk

Spreadsheet use is universal. And using spreadsheets for complex reporting has proven time and again to be killing people’s time, reducing their ability to make good decisions, and putting companies’ financial positions at risk. Because the ugly truth about spreadsheet use has been known for some time, it’s fair (and right) to ask then, why ...

What You Need To Know About Spreadsheets: The Corporate Secret Killer

Most companies today are using spreadsheets, in at least some form or fashion, for part of their financial reporting. However, most don’t realize just how prevalent errors are in those spreadsheets and how much it’s costing businesses each year. While spreadsheets have their place, they’re being used for things of which they weren’t designed and ...

Why Collaboration Matters: With Your Team & Your Financial Reporting

Since people have to work together to achieve big goals, every successful project, as well as the overall company strategy, starts with collaboration. This is doubly so in today’s age of hyper-specialization. Collaboration in the workplace is a sign of a strong culture focused on creating an effective team to harness the best from two ...

Is Your Internal Financial Reporting Data Safe?

Data security is hugely important to an organization, so much so that it keeps some users up at night. The trouble is that many users are blissfully unaware of potential faults that put their information at risk. A company’s success rests heavily on the strength of its security measures. Failure to implement and maintain appropriate ...

Why You Need Self-Service Reporting…With Complete Drill Down Functionality

Reporting doesn’t need to require therapy. Or Tylenol. For you or anyone within your organization. It certainly doesn’t need to cause a team member to stomp on a computer. Remember the scene in Office Space where Michael Bolton becomes so angry he destroys the office printer? There’s an answer to alleviating workplace stress and aggression ...

Top 6 Steps to Better Corporate Budgeting

Budgeting is a necessary evil. And in today’s fast-paced digital marketplace, it’s more important than ever. It’s the roadmap for the financial operations of your company. The roadmap you simply can’t do without. Budgeting is not a wasted bureaucratic exercise, although it may feel like it at times. Your finance team must be in the ...

You’re The New CFO: Top 6 Tips To Success

You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. And if you’re like most CFO’s, you’re only going to be with the same company for about five years. Which means you don’t have time to waste when you’re starting with a new company. The good news is you are walking in with a ...

News You Can Use: The Debate About Excel Spreadsheets & Its Use In Reporting

In this week’s blog post, we bring you a relevant article from Accounting Today which takes a dive into Excel and the question of whether it has adapted and is enough to meet the demands of modern-day finance and accounting. If you’re using Excel, or have considered using it, for your financial reporting needs, read ...

The Financial Risk of Using Spreadsheets for Reporting

It’s costing your organization more than you think.

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