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FINANCE ACE, the community hub for Finance teams

A resource center for corporate finance professionals. Get valuable data and tools, learn about operational excellence, and hear from experienced operators.

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A resource center for corporate finance professionals. Get valuable data and tools, learn about operational excellence, and hear from experienced operators.

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Latest Tools

Free models, benchmark data, and financial analysis.

Software Spend Management Model

Keep track of your company's growing list of subscriptions to eliminate wasted capital, monitor renewals and forecast expenses.

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Public Company Benchmark Analysis Tool

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.

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Headcount Planning & Payroll Forecasting Model

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

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Latest Guides

Essays on best practices, organization design, and operations.

The Complete Catalog of SaaS Benchmarks

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.

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Benchmarking FAQs

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

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Modernize the Way You Forecast Headcount & Payroll Expenses

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

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Latest Templates

Resources for creating policies and procedures, reports, and organization design.

Supplier Risk Management Policy

This policy defines a framework for managing supplier relationships. It describes expectations for classifying suppliers based on risk; establishes appropriate measures to mitigate risks; and outlines processes and associated controls.

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Critical Supplier Assessment

Critique the granular details regarding a potential supplier and determine the overall incremental risk the partnership may bring to your organization.

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Risk Assessment Matrix

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.

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Latest Takes

Thoughts on market and technology trends.

Building harmony between Procurement and FP&A

A harmonious relationship between Procurement and FP&A can be a superpower for Finance teams. Unfortunately, most Procurement and FP&A teams don’t work well together. Learn why and what we can do to change this.

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Tips for Managing a Budget

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.

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Restructuring or not, keep your house in order.

Learn tips to get your business ready to weather a storm. With the impact of COVID-19 unknown, prepare to make quick decisions as they relate to your employees, customers, vendors, and more.

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Latest Resources

Materials about Trace’s product and solutions.

Trace partners with Sage Intacct

Trace integrates with Sage Intacct to streamline purchase operations and dramatically improve financial analysis. By connecting Trace and Sage Intacct, FP&A, Procurement, and Accounting teams can put purchase operations on autopilot, get deeper, faster analytics, and be better business partners.

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Introducing Trace & The Finance Dream

August 5, 2020 – Today, we're excited to announce the Trace platform is available to the public! Trace helps Finance teams simplify by providing a smart and collaborative way to manage budgets, make purchases, and analyze financial performance.

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Introducing the Finance Ace Community

Beyond giving our customers the tools they need, we also want to share the insights and learnings they can use to drive success. To that end, we’ve created Finance Ace, a community hub for Finance teams – and made it available to anyone, customer or not.

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Finance Ace is a community hub for Finance professionals. Our members have access to a network of peers and high-quality tools, benchmark data, operating guides, and discussions.

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Trace is a purchase operations and spend analytics platform that helps FP&A, Procurement, and Accounting automate workflows, get visibility, and do deeper, faster analysis. CFOs love Trace because we help their entire Finance team scale more efficiently, improve decision-making, and become better business partners.

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