When people talk about the market prioritizing efficiency, they mean the bar for Return on Investment (ROI) has been raised. Investments with shaky return prospects need to be cut, and areas of high investment need all the attention.

How Antonio Gracias pushed Trace's co-founder, Mike Gonzalez, to conduct zero-based budgeting in the face of restructuring.

I’ve met a handful of finance teams at high-performing public and late-stage private companies forecasting weekly or bi-weekly. Many finance leaders are trying to figure out how to do the same. Here’s a bit more about why and how.

The importance of finance teams is at a peak. The business landscape is turbulent, and the best finance teams will step up to lead. In a down market, growth and burn matter just as much as growth.

With long-range planning and year-end close behind us, what are finance leaders looking forward to in FY23? Here’s what several of our favorite finance leaders told us.

Typically finance plans, and a month later, it records. Meanwhile, managers make daily decisions to allocate resources and drive financial performance. If finance wants to keep a pulse on resource allocation and performance, it needs to have a shared consciousness with the people making decisions.

Steal these 4 steps to improve how you plan and manage headcount this year. Lessons learned from the top finance and people leaders.

An exploration into the breaking points and pitfalls to help Finance leaders prioritize their technology investments. Reasons to go with a planning system first generally include losing faith in the reliability and integrity of your models. If the above items don’t ring true, then you’re likely dealing with issues related to the distribution and collection of information with your business partners and reconciling plans to what’s happening or happened.

In this video, we'll walk you through a summary of our Budget vs Actual dashboard feature, which allows budget owners to have full visibility into their financial performance.

Finance Service Management is the scope of work performed by people, processes, and systems to satisfy the financial needs and requests coming from the business. It drives efficiency in operations, promotes collaboration between finance and business partners, and delivers insights and automation across systems.

The benchmarking tool helps growth-stage and public businesses benchmark key financial metrics with their public comps. We normalize the businesses by using horizontal axes with revenue, periods from IPO, and periods from founding.

Nice, you've put together a financial plan for your company. The next step is to identify how those plans and metrics measure up to your competitors.

We're here to answer those granular questions about benchmarking your company and the metrics involved.

With the right planning and processes in place, financial management will be a breeze. Department performance will improve and you'll build trust with your team and the rest of leadership. Be dependable and crush your next board meeting when targets are reviewed.

Stop wasting money on unused subscriptions and auto-renewals. Take control of your company's growing list of subscriptions.

A comprehensive list of must-see SaaS benchmarks for business operators. From financial metrics to measure company-wide performance, to sales efficiency metrics to gauge your sales team operations.

Stop forecasting your payroll expense using shortcut methods. Utilize the readily available data to project a more accurate payroll expense schedule.

Accurately forecast your headcount and payroll expenses by diving into the details of Federal & State taxes, insurance, 401k contributions, employer matching and more.

A risk-based approach to control prioritization and implementation. This document should be used to evaluate risks based on the likelihood of occurrence and the potential Impact to the organization.