Benchmarking should become an automatic and automated process within finance as it can provide insight not available by other means.

Energy company Statoil has embraced an innovative, self-regulating management model.

The budget process does not have to be an annual pain in the spreadsheet, if you follow these six basic tips.

Finance professionals need to genuinely embrace continuous improvement principles to keep pace in this topsy-turvy economy.

While a transformation in planning brings short- and long-term organizational benefits, it also requires concerted effort by senior management to explain the new approach, why it matters, and what changes it will involve, says Accenture's Scott Brennan and Robert Bergstrom.

With new requirements for international, state and local regulators, finance executives are finding the vast majority of their time tied to meeting reporting deadlines, rather than strategy or trend spotting.

In today's unpredictable environment, it’s more and more important to replace the relatively static annual budget with agile planning. Driver-based models are a cornerstone of agile planning.

If the last five tumultuous years have taught us anything, it's that we fail to recognize a rapidly changing environment, even though it sure looks obvious in hindsight.

Too often, the words planning and budgeting are used interchangeably. But they are two different processes with two different aims. And all too often, the planning element is given short shrift.