Businesses require a lot of strategic planning and numbers-crunching. Companies make use of planning, budgeting and forecasting to map out the present and envision the future. Although all three of ...

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb This time of year, firms are either starting or ...

Budget planning for technical projects identifies costs and links them to goals. Successful technical projects do the job they were designed to do within the desired timeframe and within the planned ...

Over a decade ago I ran a quantitative tracking study on planning and budgeting for six consecutive years looking at the slow migration away from spreadsheets and the benefits of adopting packaged ...

In Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield, acharacter speaks perhaps the greatest truth ever uttered aboutpersonal finances: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditurenineteen six, result ...

Brian Sommer takes a peek into the very near future to assess how CPM is being radically changed in a brave new world of incorporating AI, machine learning and predictive capabilities, enhanced by non ...

For investors, it's important to understand the businesses in which you own stock. Are they winging along with an inflated stock price based on a fad, or are they built for the long term, with a firm ...