Planning

Guidance and insights into financial and workforce planning.

Finance Planning

How Continuous Recalibration Helps Your Business Avoid the Acceleration Gap

The pace of business is even faster now as companies plan for life after COVID-19. What's trending today becomes tomorrow’s disruption—and tomorrow’s disruption will eventually define a new way of working.

Patricia Harris
Finance Planning

The Age of Agility Demands You Lose That Outdated ERP System

The challenge for many CFOs is that the technologies and processes they currently have in place for planning may actually hinder their efforts to achieve agility.

Bob Hansen
Finance Planning

CFOs Expect Robust Growth Over the Next Year, Look to Meet Challenges

Finance leaders say they’re bullish on their companies, and want to improve environmental, science, and governance (ESG) reporting and diversity and inclusion efforts, according to PwC’s latest Pulse Survey.

Bruno J. Navarro
Finance Planning

How Scenario Planning Future-Proofs Finance

Understanding a company’s key variables and how to react to different outcomes can help leaders respond to future challenges—and succeed in turbulent times.

Bruno J. Navarro
Finance Planning

Where CFOs Are Prioritizing Resources to Enable a Frictionless Finance Future

A Workday global survey reveals how finance leaders are looking to invest in digital transformation to address growing data challenges and emerging topics.

Bruno J. Navarro
Finance Planning

Global Study: Finance Leaders Reveal Key Goals and Challenges for Driving Digital Acceleration

CFOs and other finance leaders recognize that future business survival requires greater agility in planning, reporting, and resource-capacity management. And while organizations will employ their own strategy for meeting these goals, a recent survey reveals that most leaders prioritize the adoption of smart technologies and cross-functional skills sharing.

Workday Staff Writers
Finance Planning

Harvard Study: Finance Faces Long Road to Data and Analytics Maturity

This article looks at a global survey of 162 finance managers and senior executives that reveals significant conflicts between finance leaders’ aspirations and how they do their day-to-day work.

Barbara Larson
Finance Planning

Workday Named a 2021 Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large, and Global Enterprises for Fifth Year in a Row

We’re delighted to announce that Workday has been recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large, and Global Enterprises. We’ve continued to invest in our unique architecture and intelligent data foundation to ensure our customers have the robust analytics and automation they need to respond to a changing world.

Terrance Wampler
Human Resources Planning

Why Integrated Workforce Planning Is Vital for Business Agility

The pandemic has created momentum for the remote workforce and there’s no going back, with one study predicting the total percentage of work from home employees will double in 2021. With this big change, one thing is for certain: Decades-old workforce planning processes will no longer work.

Workday Staff Writers
Finance Planning

How Finance Must Rethink Skills to Thrive in the Digital Era

The post-pandemic world, when it arrives, will transform many aspects of business as usual. As a result, CEOs will turn to finance leaders who not only have accounting experience, but also wider operational backgrounds and a broader mix of business experience.

Steve Dunne
Finance Planning

How Intelligent Automation Will Transform the Finance Function

As businesses seek to rebound from the global pandemic, the rise of intelligent automation will change the way organizations operate forever. This article examines how technologies such as machine learning will reshape the office of the CFO.

Steve Dunne
Finance Planning

Workday Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions

We’re proud to once again be recognized for our completeness of vision and ability to execute, especially at such a pivotal moment for businesses and economies.

Kshitij Dayal
Finance Planning

3 Finance Insights Guiding the Way to Business Recovery

Leaders need good quality data to make real-time decisions and steer their businesses on a path to normality. This article looks at three key insights finance leaders should be delivering to the business, and why they are so important today.

Steve Dunne
Finance Planning

Results of Workday’s 2020 CFO Indicator Survey: Agility Is Everything

When finance leaders were cast into the chaos caused by the global pandemic, many discovered that in the face of economic tumult, the ability to operate with agility is exactly what’s needed to prevent their businesses from capsizing.

Michael Magaro
Finance Planning

CFO Checklist: Guiding Your Business Through a Successful Return to Work

Finance leaders are in a critical position to help assess the options and impacts associated with returning to the workplace, including how the business can grow and react differently in the future.

Bob Hansen
Analytics and Insights Planning

3 Steps for Planning in a Changing World

Technological advances, ever-increasing customer expectations, and smarter, data-driven decision-making put pressure on finance teams to find new ways to operate with agility. But how do you plan in a way that allows you to respond to such events, from the predictable to the unlikely?

Bob Hansen
Finance Planning

CFOs Play a Powerful Role in Continuous Planning

Having the tools for data-driven decision making enables organizations to plan, pivot, and build strategic partnerships that support business continuity, growth, and changes in the healthcare industry.

Keith Lohkamp
Finance Planning

Looking Forward: Best Practices for Financial Scenario Modeling

As organizations try to make sense of an economic landscape that continues to evolve, business planning becomes more important than ever. Kinnari Desai, senior director of corporate finance at Workday, discusses scenario modeling and the importance of agility in planning.

Steve Dunne
Finance Planning

How the CFO Can Tackle Uncertainty and Persistent Change

The finance team is at the forefront of leading a business through uncertain times. What should CFOs be focused on? In this article, we look at five key areas to prioritize.

Steve Dunne