This is part 4 of 12 in a blog series on understanding the risks of your current planning, budgeting and forecasting process. For the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a new article every Wednesday on budgeting best practices that will look at the challenges of the budgeting process and how to solve them. Catch…

Calling all CGAs, CPAs, CAs, and CPAs…   Will you be at the CPA Canada’s National Conference in Toronto?   This is the first year that the CPA National Conference will be held since the unification AND the first year that True Sky will be an exhibitor.   We’ll be there…

This is part 2 of 12 in a blog series on understanding the risks of your current planning, budgeting and forecasting process. For the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a new article every Wednesday that will look at the challenges of the budgeting process and how to solve them with budgeting…

This is the beginning of a blog series on understanding the risks of your current planning, budgeting and forecasting process. For the next 11 weeks, we’ll be posting a new article every Wednesday that will look at the challenges of the budgeting process and how to solve them with budgeting best…

This blog post is from our partner, TGO Consulting in their series, The Changing Role of Finance. It was written by Grantley Smith, Solution Advisor from TGO. Back when I was doing actual accounting every day, I remember dreading budget season. It is like the opposite of Christmas – you…

The following article is from guest blogger, Gary Cokins. Managers are increasingly shifting from reacting to after-the-fact reported outcomes to anticipating the future with predictive analysis and proactively making adjustments with better decisions. Despite some advances in the application of new costing techniques such as activity-based costing, are management accountants…

So you’ve worked long and hard to complete an Excel workbook. You have gathered input from multiple sources, incorporated changes from high-level management and finally, you have arrived at the final version. Hooray! But wait! Someone in your company missed the deadline on their changes and decided to access the…

The following article is from guest blogger, Gary Cokins. Please forgive me for my persistent rant and criticism against accountants who continue to calculate the substantial and growing high indirect and shared costs originating from resource expenses such as salaries, supplies, power, information technologies, and travel. I cannot seem to…

The Sage Summit 2014 has been a whirlwind of a week! From keynote presentations to product demonstrations, the amount of learning that has occurred in such a short period of time is outstanding. Aside from our own learning, attendees at the Sage Summit have also educated themselves on how True…