Jose Duarte offers insight into improving financial planning and analysis

If 2020 and 2021 taught us one thing, it’s that financial experts are increasingly being asked to provide logical support to businesses. These individuals are heavily relied on to help organizations weather the storms that arise. Jose Duarte, an entrepreneur and business expert from Costa Rica, provides insight into how businesses can improve their financial planning to overcome unexpected challenges.

Accounting divisions, as colleagues, are expected to provide valuable, relevant, and opportune data to leaders of the association. They must help the leaders of the association move forward by making sure that every decision made is well-informed.

This new responsibility is more burdensome for CFOs than any other. Most CFOs now admit that all demands or requests come from the association and that they are trying to be aware of them. They are scrambling for approaches to satisfy everybody by satisfying their solicitations or requests on time that the FP&A groups display indications of fatigue and dissatisfaction.

Many people in the group are uncertain about what they should do, and how to accomplish it. Explains Duarte, “Financial analysts battle with declining demands from various divisions or individuals. It is important that the FP&A team identifies and finds a middle ground.”

It is important for FP&A groups that they have a set of criteria to help them determine if top-to-bottom expository assistance is required. This will ensure that the most important and business-affecting explanatory solicitations will be organized and that the members don’t slack off in giving examinations that will increase the association’s value.

It is difficult to know exactly what type of examination specialty units are performing. This is something that every medium- to large-sized company understands. It is difficult for an accounting department to understand what is happening in other offices, especially when they are already overwhelmed by their own burden.

It is extremely easy to replicate previous analysis, however. Duarte asserts, “It’s extremely routine that specialty units have conducted their own investigation and the accounting office would also attempt to conduct their own examination.”

This leads to duplication and futility, as well as a waste of time. It is a good idea to group together specialty units and plan a joint explanatory exercise so that each division can use their unique qualities and consolidate them in order to create a reliable yield.

Advertising offices and sales departments, for example, conduct their own research to evaluate or improve their activities. It is therefore easy to imagine a diagnostic exercise that they can do together, which will help increase the business’s value and eliminate duplication of efforts.

It is easy to get CFOs to invest in the automation of particular undertakings since they are aware of the emergence of speculation. It is also helpful to have the expository bit. This is because, in addition to your own inner abilities, the collective proficiency of the group, and the level of investigation that will result, will be greater and more unrivaled.

States Duarte, “There are many ways to address concerns of loss of control or business astuteness. The right automation innovation will ensure that there are best practices established to avoid the usual traps of centralization and computerization.”

Global commerce is changing, and so are the financial activities supporting it. It is important to understand the impact of these changes on a business’s operations, and what can be done in order to minimize the ongoing evolutionary process.

About Jose Daniel Duarte

Jose Duarte is originally from Heredia, Costa Rica. He has been an entrepreneur and business owner for more than 20 years, and divides his time between his existing operations and researching new possibilities in which to invest. When he’s not dedicating time to his businesses, he spends time with his supporting wife and two children.

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