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What are the benefits and applications of corporate performance management (CPM) tools? (Webinar Attendee Question)
What is the primary application of a CPM tool? Is it being used as a consolidation/variance tool or a dynamic tool using multiple metrics to evaluate the business? This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar "Planning and Forecasting Best Practices" held on March 7, 2013.…
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What are Corporate Performance Management Solution Adoption Tips (Webinar Attendee Question)
Usually people resist the change process. How do you deal with it during your CPM solution implementation? This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar "Planning and Forecasting Best Practices" held on March 7, 2013. Join the discussion and add your insights below.
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The US per unit labor cost has gone up 20%, how is that possible given the economic crisis since late 2007? (Webinar Attendee Question)
This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar “The Big Bang, Technology and the Global Economy" held on February 22, 2013. Please join the discussion and add your insights below. A video of the webinar can be viewed here:https://www.proformative.com/resources/webinar-video…
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Best Practice for managing your engineering headcount needs
We are in the process of going through some significant company growth and I am getting requests to add some significant engineering resources. While our new customer is driving much of the growth, I am trying to understand a better way to determine our needs for engineers, QA and product manageme…
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Is there a correlation between investment in the finance organization and the results of the company? i.e. does more investment mean better performance, or worse? (Webinar Attendee Question)
This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar “Finance Transformation: Essential Elements for Driving Success" held on February 27, 2013. Please join the discussion and add your insights below. A video of the webinar can be viewed here: https://www.proformative.com/reso…
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What is a good benchmark for "cost to close" the books, e.g. month-end close? (Webinar Attendee Question)
This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar “Finance Transformation: Essential Elements for Driving Success" held on February 27, 2013. Please join the discussion and add your insights below. A video of the webinar can be viewed here: https://www.proformative.com/reso…
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International pricing - USD or foreign dollars?
Have a product that is delivered to the consumer electronically. The consumer is a mom/pop retail outlet. Looking at deploying internationally first in Canada and then potentially elsewhere. What have you done or would you recommend on the pricing as it relates to which currency it should be pri…
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FASB Reporting Requirements For Prior Year Financials
We are a very small public company (pink sheet) acquiring a division from another company. The acquisition target has been very profitable. The subdivision has maintained separate audited financials. We would like to use the last 3 years of the acquisition to restate our financials. Can we do this?…
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How can I better understand and audit credit card interchange rates? (Webinar Attendee Question)
This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar "Leveraging Analytics to Manage the Cost of Credit and Debit Card Payments" held on February 7, 2013. Please join the discussion and add your insights below. A video of the webinar can be viewed here: https://www.proformative.c…
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What is the best way to gather data to measure credit card cost metrics? (Webinar Attendee Question)
This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar "Leveraging Analytics to Manage the Cost of Credit and Debit Card Payments" held on February 7, 2013. Please join the discussion and add your insights below. A video of the webinar can be viewed here: https://www.proformative.c…
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Pro rated billing
When billing our clients for software subscriptions some customers will add additional users to there existing 12 month contract through out the year. The sales rep on the account will issue a pro rated quote, we will not invoice until the customer has signed and sent back the quote. Sometimes they…
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When is the U.S. economy going to really recover & why?
By "recover," I mean regain the jobs, confidence and growth rates lost in the recession and subsequent years. Here's some polling from Gallup that doesn't seem to make it much clearer.
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Should non-Finance department personnel post to the General Ledger?
I currently work as a Finance Director for a $4bn. transportation organitation that has decentralized most of the operational accounting to the various corporate departments (HR, IT, Legal, etc.). There are budget officers and financial analysts that support these departments, but do not report to …
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