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Liz Anderson: Nov 4, 2026
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is the corporate finance function responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and analyzing financial performance to guide business decisions. Where accounting records what already happened, FP&A looks forward: it...
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Welcome to xFiles, Solver's investigative video series that uncovers the most perplexing mysteries plaguing finance teams everywhere. Each episode...
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The criteria that matter most are the ones that address what plain Excel cannot do on its own: centralized version control, an automated audit trail,...
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The tools worth considering in this category share four traits: a native Excel interface rather than an Excel export or import layer, a centralized...
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Driver-based planning is a forecasting approach where a budget or forecast is built from the underlying business activities that create it, such as...
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Excel's limitations in FP&A fall into three categories: version control, performance, and auditability. Version control breaks down because Excel...
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Microsoft customers and partners are heading to Music City for Community Summit North America (NA) 2026, October 11-15 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort...
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The real difference is not whether a spreadsheet is involved. It is where the data and the controls live. Excel-based FP&A keeps the Excel interface...
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Welcome to xFiles, Solver's investigative video series that uncovers the most perplexing mysteries plaguing finance teams everywhere. Each episode...
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