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The Centage team understands the key financial and managerial challenges in your business and we are committed to helping you meet them. Included on this page are links to white papers, eBooks, and articles on budgeting and planning topics relevant to your business.

The CFO Guide to Budgeting Software: 10 Key Elements Mid-Sized Companies Should Look For

A mid-sized business needs the same financial performance control and measurement capabilities as a large corporation, but in a solution that's affordable, easy to implement and scalable. This guide simplifies the search by helping CFOs understand the 10 must-have characteristics of today's best financial performance management solutions.

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The Transition from Spreadsheet Budgets to a Packaged Application: A Practical Guide for Small to Mid-sized Businesses

This white paper details the problems inherent in spreadsheet-based budgeting as well as the advantages of packaged applications. It also proposes a road map to start the transition of your budgeting from a spreadsheet platform to an enterprise packaged application. The goal is to help you deploy a budgeting solution that fosters more collaboration while ensuring more control, accountability, and budget compliance.

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Risk and Reward: Using Spreadsheets for Budgeting and Forecasting

Most businesses use spreadsheets for budgeting and forecasting. While it does provide a valuable service to finance executives for one-off spreadsheet creation, the creation of balance sheets, forecasts and profit and loss statements that flow from an organization’s general ledger must be immediate and 100% accurate. This whitepaper discusses the issues with spreadsheet-centric budgeting and the business advantages of application software built and optimized for budget and forecast creation, management and long-term financial planning. In this white paper:

• How Excel falls short
• Real-Life examples
• Benefits of Forecast and Budgeting software
• Checklist for moving to Forecast and Budgeting software

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Recession-Proof Your Business with Better Cash Flow Management

Learn about tools and techniques for improving cash flow management, reporting, analysis and planning, and how better cash flow capabilities will help you weather sluggish economic conditions.

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Centage/IOMA Budgeting Survey: Benchmarks & Issues

How are other financial professionals dealing with the issues you face? This Report offers you an inside peak into what more than 200 financial executives are thinking and doing to improve their budgeting processes and bottom lines.

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Discover the Power of Automating Your Budget

A Purpose-Built Approach to Business Performance Management

Financial planning can be an inefficient drain on an organization. Old technology makes budgeting, forecasting and reporting difficult and error prone in a market that already inflicts enough uncertainty in daily operations. However, SMBs have better options than spreadsheets; it's simply a matter of choosing a more streamlined, powerful purpose-built application instead of accepting the old one-size-fits-all standby. Download this white paper to learn about stress-free technology for success in today's market.

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