Financial planning news stories - Page 2

Intuit QuickBooks has rolled out a machine learning-based cashflow prediction tool to assist thousands of small and medium businesses with getting back on the road to recovery.

How robust planning can help finance leaders steer their organisations through COVID-19 and beyond.

Scores of finance teams around Australia are working remotely but those which practise continuous accounting are likely to find it easier to maintain business as usual while they’re out of the office.

Focusing on returns, rather than adopting AI for its own sake, will drive the emergence of rapid AI ROI throughout the rest of 2020.

Data from the IDC report shows that the rise of digital banking can be partially attributed to the conservative view of the value chain maintained by many traditional banks – leaving them unable to take advantage of potential ecosystem partners.

The cybersecurity company saw gains in almost every category for its financial results of the first quarter of the year.

Nutanix has unveiled details of its finanical assistance programme for its partners to help them get through the COVID-19 crisis.

According to a Gartner survey released yesterday, only a small portion of CFOs have a second wave of COVID-19 outbreaks factored into their planning scenarios, while 42% of CFOs are not incorporating a second wave outbreak at all in their plans.

The solution helps to move organisations away from ‘Excel Hell’ related to budgeting, forecasting, and planning.

Organisations are able to browse ready-made solutions built specifically for the Board decision-making platform, which complement customers’ existing Board solutions.

The grants would allow for businesses to quickly adapt to the new normal of remote working -  offering products online, providing services virtually and offering take-away and delivery of goods.

“From our view, it is extremely gratifying to see that so many of our valued customers are benefiting from the collaborative accounting experience we provide and have true ROI to show after using BlackLine to modernise their finance and accounting organisations.”

Many established businesses in affected sectors are having to rethink longstanding practices and processes and find significant savings in order to remain competitive.

“We are excited OpenText is partnering with Mastercard to integrate our digital platforms together to allow companies to quickly identify and vet business relationships and make the end-to-end payments process even simpler.”

In the accounting department, robotic process automation sees automation software running on a workstation perform many of the tasks formerly carried out by accountants.

The problem is that many finance departments are still stuck making important business decisions based on last quarters’ numbers.

The appointment indicates headway into the New Zealand market for the cloud planning platform provider.

The company passed the $100 million revenue threshold and added more than 500 net new customers.

Empired has upgraded its revenue expectations for 2015 and 2016 on the back of contract success and rapid expansion across Australia and New Zealand.

"We retain a positive outlook across the group for the 2016 financial year," the company said.

Express Data New Zealand has started its financial year with a bang, with its Q1 figures beating budget and improving on last year's record breaking figures.

It's not good times for HTC. Their HTC One phone was supposed to be the flagship product for 2013, and by all accounts it's actually a pretty nice phone. So what gives?

"Money is not important in itself, but it touches everything in your life that is.”

Apple has announced that they will be starting a stock buyback to the tune of US$10 billion starting September 1st, along with a per-share dividend of US $2.