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…

Whether you like it or not, the budget is something that must be done on a yearly, if not ongoing, basis. If you’re not in finance, budgeting is going to be the last thing on your mind, but it is essential that everyone contributes in order to get the most…

 How To Move Columns Into Rows (And Vice-Versa) Excel Tips and Tricks We’re getting back to basics with Excel- the tool we all love and hate. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting different tips and tricks in Microsoft Excel that will hopefully make your life easier. Often times…

How Can You Eliminate Updating Your Chart In Different Documents? We’re getting back to basics with Excel- the tool we all love and hate. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting different tips and tricks in Microsoft Excel that will hopefully make your life easier. Let’s say you want…

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…

4 Tips For Improving The Budgeting Process   For a majority of businesses, Excel is the basic budgeting tool used. Subsequently, the Excel interface significantly influences the way the budgeting process works. The Typical Budgeting Cycle About 4 months before the final budget is due, you begin your budget cycle….

The following article is from guest blogger, Gary Cokins. I will substantially oversimplify the history of accounting for the purpose to provide perspective for a new era that is now emerging. It is an era of progressive managerial accounting methods enabled by computer software. Here is all you need to…

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…