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Written by Rand Heer, Alight's founder — white papers that take you through important planning concepts and analysis techniques. Please fill out the form below. You will then receive an email with links to the following white papers.
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Escaping Excel Hell: Budgets & Forecasting — Many companies are in “Excel Hell”, a continuing
state of inefficiency and disruption related to using Excel for collaborative
planning. The spreadsheet symptoms of Excel Hell are broken formulas, consolidations
that choke, and wrong numbers. The organizational symptoms are inefficiency, frustration and decisions based on bad information. |
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Driver-Based Planning — Learn a best practice methodology where financial plans incorporate assumptions about business activities which are modeled to drive financial data such as revenue projections, headcount, spending and capital requirements. |
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Integrating Actuals into Financial Plans — Integrating actuals into the planning cycle is usually a zoo. Financial and operating results are spread across multiple databases. Actual results and plan detail are at different levels. Lack of underlying volumes and rates make meaningful causal analysis difficult. You want apples to apples. Too often you get fruit salad. |
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Planning at the Business Unit Level — Planning at the business unit level is most commonly done in Excel with cost center inputs gathered using workbook templates that are difficult to format and consolidate. While business units can’t escape from “Excel Hell” using a corporate BPM system, they can streamline planning and analysis processes with Alight Planning. |
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Get Visibility with Stage Based Planning — First build a model of your financial goal, and then fill in the blanks about how you're going to get there by laying out the economics at each stage of development and growth. Stage based planning is a foundation of Alight Planning software. |
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Standards for Financial Plans — Learn Alight's eight standards including criteria for bottoms up planning, activity driven line items, sensitivity and scenario analysis, and more. |
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