Written by Rand Heer , Alight's founder — white papers that take you through important planning concepts and analysis techniques.
Escaping Excel Hell: Budgets & Forecasting — Many companies are in "Excel Hell", a continuing state of inefficiency and disruption related to using Excel for collaborative planning. The spreadsheet symptoms of Excel Hell are broken formulas, consolidations that choke, and wrong numbers. The organizational symptoms are inefficiency, frustration and decisions based on bad information.
Driver-Based Planning for Budgets & Forecasting — Learn a best practice methodology where financial plans incorporate assumptions about business activities which are modeled to drive financial data such as revenue projections, headcount, spending and capital requirements.
Integrating Actuals into Financial Plans — Integrating actuals into the planning cycle is usually a zoo. Financial and operating results are spread across multiple databases. Actual results and plan detail are at different levels. Lack of underlying volumes and rates make meaningful causal analysis difficult. You want apples to apples. Too often you get fruit salad.
Planning at the Business Unit Level — Planning at the business unit level is most commonly done in Excel with cost center inputs gathered using workbook templates that are difficult to format and consolidate. While business units can't escape from "Excel Hell" using a corporate BPM system, they can streamline planning and analysis processes with Alight Planning.
Driver-Based Planning for Budgets & Forecasting — Learn a best practice methodology where financial plans incorporate assumptions about business activities which are modeled to drive financial data such as revenue projections, headcount, spending and capital requirements.
Integrating Actuals into Financial Plans — Integrating actuals into the planning cycle is usually a zoo. Financial and operating results are spread across multiple databases. Actual results and plan detail are at different levels. Lack of underlying volumes and rates make meaningful causal analysis difficult. You want apples to apples. Too often you get fruit salad.
Planning at the Business Unit Level — Planning at the business unit level is most commonly done in Excel with cost center inputs gathered using workbook templates that are difficult to format and consolidate. While business units can't escape from "Excel Hell" using a corporate BPM system, they can streamline planning and analysis processes with Alight Planning.
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