You need your team to participate in the budgeting process, so how can you make the process a little less dreaded? Business budgeting is critical, but it is far from fun. Rather, it is most often viewed as tedious and time-consuming. However, the more engaged and motivated your team members…

For any financial leader, key performance indicators (KPIs) are crucial for your business – you can’t live without them. They are used to measure success – what is working (successful) and what is not (unsuccessful). They can also help you identify areas for improvement – that, after all, is really…

More and more organizations lately are turning to alternative sources of information – unstructured data – for valuable business insights. Harnessing unstructured data is becoming a top focus area in driving business value and unstructured data is being used by companies to gain a more in-depth understanding of their customers,…

We were so impressed with our team, Team True Sky Black, for their hard work and dedication over the 2016-2017 season! These girls and boys came out and played their hearts out every week – and had a lot of fun doing it! Throughout the season, they’ve managed to stay…

For any organization, a budget, whether done annually or conducted throughout the year in the form of rolling forecasts, is a critical component for success. Any successful budget must connect three major elements – people, data and process. A breakdown in any of these areas can have a major impact…

Create an annual budget and stick to it: this personal financial advice works for so many people. What organizations are coming to realize however, is that it isn’t as viable when you apply it to the workings of a corporation. For household accounts, sure, annual budgeting makes sense, but when…

Today we sat down with President of True Sky, George Braun, to chat. We wanted to know a little more about his own experience with the development of True Sky and why he believes it is crucial for companies looking to streamline their budgeting and forecasting process. What have you…

In the business world, there are very few universal truths. One that can’t be denied is that a company can’t avoid business budget planning and expect to succeed. If you don’t budget, you are probably setting yourself up for failure; it really is as simple as that. And while this…

Imagine this: you are the CFO of a company and you come in every morning and want to see something happen. You open up your computer and what do you see? We asked the executive teams at all of our different partners about KPI reporting to understand what key KPIs…

We are well into 2017 now and that means many corporations are either happy to see the year-end budgeting and forecasting process done and over with, are still grappling with the changes required after review, or (if you’ve jumped on the rolling forecast bandwagon) are continually working on improving the…