Strategic company budgets are absolutely critical. After all, they allow you to establish goals, assess your company finances, and make accurate (and exciting!) growth plans for the future. And yes – we understand that business budgeting isn’t the most thrilling thing in the world. But remember – just because you…

Oh, the strategic budgeting grind. It’s absolutely necessary, but if you don’t have the right tools and software handy, it can be a huge pain! Let’s face it – there’s new software being developed constantly. That makes it pretty difficult for businesses to figure out how to choose the best…

Ah, summer. It’s the perfect time to kick back, relax, and… grow your business? That’s right! And you can do all three of those things this year at Sage Summit 2015. It’s taking place in New Orleans from July 27th to July 30th, so you’ll be able to enjoy the…

When you search online for quotes about business budgets, you find a lot of strikingly similar statements: “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” ― Joe Biden “The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of…

Admit it – you were a Monopoly junkie when you were a kid. All those properties to buy, all those houses and hotels to build…and all that money to play around with. Who wouldn’t be enamored of a game that lets you get rich quick, over and over again? But…

Data Collection True Sky is more than just a traditional corporate performance management (CPM) tool. It can also help facilitate and structure any type of data capture process you have within your organization. In many organizations, data is captured and stored either in individual spreadsheets or in emails. For instance, maybe…

Audit Trails “Those aren’t my numbers, somebody else must have changed them.” If you are somehow involved in managing or facilitating your business budgeting process, I am sure you hear those words on a regular basis. In fact, that phase is probably third most popular in the list of phrases…

Whether you like it or not, at some point of the year, you will need to start budgeting and forecasting for the next. What a lot of companies fail to realize, is that it doesn’t have to be as painful as you think. By implementing a company wide set of…

    In business, knowledge is power. The keys to a successful enterprise rest on the ability to stay agile and be able to make the best decisions in a timely manner. Having the ability to forecast overall income and expense, net profit or loss, overhead cost or the performance…

Finding a new budgeting and forecasting solution can be an overwhelming task. Not only is the task to find a product to suit your unique business needs, but it also entails sorting through the multitude of products on the market as well. However, knowing the right questions to ask in…