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Spreadsheets: An Inadequate Solution for Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting
Sponsored By Adaptive Planning
- Topics:
- Budgeting & Planning > Budgeting
- Business Software > BPM , Spreadsheets
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- Abstract:
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Large corporations reap the benefits of purpose-built budgeting, forecasting and reporting applications. Unfortunately, because such applications are costly and complex to implement, deploy and maintain, mid-sized organizations have not been able to reap the same benefits. Instead, these organizations have conducted the budgeting and forecasting process through a readily-available, inexpensive and easy-to-use application - the spreadsheet.
Spreadsheets, however, were never designed for multiple users. They were not intended to be the foundation of a dynamic, shared function like financial planning. And they certainly weren't designed to provide the security required for financial information.
The good news is that Adaptive Planning offers an excellent solution:
- Easy to use
- Requires no IT resources for implementation or maintenance
- Facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements
- Creates a single data repository for all financial plans, forecasts, and reports
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- Released: June 24, 2008
- Length: 11 pages
- Format: PDF (113 kb)
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