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Battle-Tested Best Practices in Planning and Budgeting in Action

Sponsored by Host Analytics

Date:	Wed, Sep 26, 2007
Time:	3:00 P.M. ET What time is this for me?
Duration:	1 hour
Cost:	Online FREE

Summary

In business, as in the military, you will always operate in the absence of complete information, yet you must act. Uncertainty brings inaction and chaos. As a finance executive, you are like a commander on the battlefield, making critical decisions that affect mission success regardless of the uncertainty each day will bring. Your challenge is to build a framework for action that brings order to chaos.

In part I and II of the Host Analytics white paper series, Battle-Tested Best Practices in Budgeting and Planning, you learned about the importance of planning and how to leverage best practices and software to ease the planning and budgeting process.

This webcast will touch on the 6 tenets of solid planning and budgeting, but will be primarily focused on 3 companies, Payment Processing, Inc., AirBorn, and SigamTel, Inc., that have significantly improved their planning and budgeting process by combining best practices and software.

Guest speakers include: Allen Genereux, Vice President of Finance for Payment Processing; Craig Bray, Accounting Manager for AirBorn; Jeff Robinson, FP&A Manager for SigmaTel; Chris Lozano, President of C4i Systems, a strategic planning consulting firm; and Ric Ratkowski, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management for Host Analytics.

In the webcast, you will hear about:

The 6 tenets to better planning and budgeting
How companies like Payment Processing, Inc. have taken the step to leveraging better planning processes and software to ease the planning and budgeting cycle
How Corporate Performance Management software supports the 6 tenets of planning and budgeting.

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