Guidance and insights into financial and workforce planning.
Discover how procurement and sourcing teams are collaborating with financial planning and analysis teams to drive savings and maintain business continuity despite economic volatility.
A new report uncovers a divide between the modern planning tools that organizations want and the ones they have—but also finds growing efforts to bridge the gap.
The ability to quickly and easily assess potential outcomes—best case, worst case, most likely case—is extremely valuable when variables are constantly changing.
Finance leaders looking to the next generation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems must focus on how their software will connect people, operational, and financial data to create value now and well into the future.
For true business agility, companies can no longer rely on spreadsheets, manual processes, and legacy financial planning and analysis (FP&A) technology.
Automating repetitive financial planning tasks can reduce errors, shorten cycle times, and increase financial planning and analysis (FP&A) productivity.
More than half of professional services firms can’t forecast project revenue beyond six months. Workday’s Mark David and Justin Joseph share insights into how organizations can get revenue forecasting right, even when business is anything but usual.
As demand for disclosure increases, CFOs will need help from their financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams to meet and report on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.
Sustainable and socially responsible investments can boost growth while also building a brighter future. Workday’s Pete Rutman discusses how banks need transparent reporting to make a meaningful impact.
As CFOs are tasked with more responsibilities, one way to create greater value across the enterprise is to envision what next-level financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams will look like. McKinsey & Co. expert Michele Tam identifies considerations for finance leaders looking to the future.
In a time when unpredictability is the new status quo, sales teams need a powerful planning tool that can help them course-correct with precision and speed.
Finance and HR routinely produce headcount numbers that don’t match—and that’s a problem.
Shifting regulatory environments, compliance obligations, and tax laws around the globe are increasing challenges for businesses using legacy systems. The Workday Enterprise Management Cloud offers a new approach geared toward the future.
You may not realize how quote-to-cash is a part of everyday life, but it’s humming behind the scenes as companies work to influence your decisions about apps, services, and subscriptions. In this episode, it’s all about quote-to-cash for technology and media companies with Igor Stenmark from MGI Research and Justin Joseph from Workday.
Making financial planning a continuous, year-round process will improve your company’s agility and help it reach its strategic goals.
For successful workforce planning, organizations must rethink their talent strategies to minimize skills gaps, maximize hiring investments, and better align talent with corporate objectives.
To thrive in a competitive and global marketplace, you need exceptional financial forecasting processes and a finance team capable of orchestrating them.
The age of continuous planning for retail CFOs is here, and it is the key to unlocking increased efficiency, lowering costs, and forging a positive path forward, even through disruption.
Successful business transformation initiatives can be difficult to manage, especially when employees aren’t aligned with leadership. The best way to close that stakeholder gap is by empowering the employee voice.
As countless businesses have discovered, adopting a culture of continuous planning helps unlock an agile future.
How can you get to the underlying financial and operational data that reveals what’s really driving the business? Discover how to overcome common barriers and where to best invest so you can adapt to change as it happens.
Organizations dedicated to their role in the global movement toward sustainability have put responsible environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices at the forefront. Deloitte’s Rikki Stancich and Andrew Wood describe how to use Workday Adaptive Planning to assess ESG metrics, determine improvement goals, and report progress.
A modern close process can accelerate business agility and create a frictionless, collaborative environment for accounting and financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
The gap between the intensifying rate of change and an organization’s ability to keep up with it is a strategic problem with painful results. Here’s what’s required to close the gap.
The enterprise management cloud can help organizations remove friction in their finance processes to achieve greater efficiency and add enterprise value. Workday's Barbara Larson lays out the process.
Workplaces that employ hourly workers aren’t always known for flexibility. But technology, powered with artificial intelligence and machine learning, can help workplaces be more attractive to frontline talent. Enter flexible scheduling for frontline workers.
Workday’s latest CFO Indicator survey asked 267 CFOs around the globe about their plans and priorities for the next five years. Learn how those who were identified as “finance outperformers” are leading the way by investing in skills and technology for the future.
With data visualization and real-time dashboards, CFOs and finance teams are able to better understand what their data is trying to tell them.
CFOs must take a forward-looking approach when thinking about data, talent, and technology for the finance function, according to experts from AICPA, Deloitte, and Workday.
Dynamic forecasting can guide businesses through fluid markets and uncertain times. A recent report by Business Application Research Center (BARC), in collaboration with Workday, indicates businesses are starting to respond to the urgency to be more agile and are shifting to intelligent, real-time forecasting.
Profitability analysis can drive decision-making and move the needle on future profits by answering key questions.
When First Sentier Investors was acquired, company leaders only had six months to stand up an all-new financial management platform. The CFO of First Sentier Investors shares how the company transformed its reporting, analysis, budgeting, and forecasting processes in record time.
At Conversations for a Changing World, leaders from Cisco and Accenture talked about the future of hybrid work for technology, media, and entertainment companies.
What may seem like a tipping point in the labor market has, in reality, always been a constant: change. Navigating this change in the moment requires a strong partnership between operational and HR leaders.
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.
Want to improve collaboration? Here are five tips to ignite company-wide engagement and build confidence in your financial planning process.
For a growing number of successful enterprises, becoming more adaptable has meant charting a path to modern planning.
Zero-based budgeting may be useful for companies looking to align spending with business goals during uncertain times.
The pace of change was accelerating even before businesses were rocked by the pandemic. Change will remain a fixture long after pandemic disruption is over.
Gartner gave it a name, but the concept of Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) isn't new. Learn more about xP&A and what it means for your enterprise.
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.
Finance leaders say they’re bullish on their companies, and want to improve environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting and diversity and inclusion efforts, according to PwC’s latest Pulse Survey.
CFOs tasked with budget presentations often find themselves explaining numbers and assumptions that are far out of date by the time they stand before key stakeholders.
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.
A Workday global survey reveals how finance leaders are looking to invest in digital transformation to address growing data challenges and emerging topics.
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.
Rolling forecasts can be true game changers. If you take the time to avoid some of these common mistakes, you can be sure that your FP&A team becomes a key driver of business results.
Finance leaders from a variety of industries came together at a recent Fortune CFO Collaborative event to talk about the critical role of the CFO in a post-pandemic world. Read more for the highlights.
Many companies suffer poor communication and collaboration between financial and non-financial groups. Learn how finance can engage operations in planning.
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.