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Advanced Excel Forecasting Models for CFOs: From Scenario Planning to Sensitivity Analysis

May 28, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

Let me tell you something about forecasting that doesn’t make it into the glossy investor decks: it’s less art, more street fight. Forecasting is what happens when you’re locked in a room with imperfect data, an impatient executive team, and the ticking clock of a quarterly board meeting. I’ve lived that loop more times than […]

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Why Smart Finance Teams Build Dashboards in Excel First: 4 Tactical Wins

May 26, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

I’ve seen more dashboards die in the wild than PowerPoint decks in an abandoned investor folder. You know the type—some over-engineered, visually stunning, SaaS-powered monstrosity that looks great until someone asks for a new metric and you realize no one on the team knows how it was built. Or worse: the original architect left the […]

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How to Build a Driver-Based Model That Actually Supports Decision-Making

May 21, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

Here’s the truth most FP&A leaders won’t say out loud: the majority of financial models aren’t built for decision-making. They’re built for optics. They exist to be opened in board meetings, skimmed over by execs, and bookmarked as evidence that Finance is doing its job. But when Sales wants to run a hiring scenario or […]

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