FINANCIAL PLANNING, BUDGETING AND FORECASTING

As the stewards of shareholder value, Finance groups are tasked with accurately predicting earnings and aligning strategic, financial and operational plans. The increasing complexities of regulatory compliance and challenging business environments have increased the difficulty of these responsibilities.

Archstone Consulting’s CFO Advisory Services practice focuses on partnering with CFO’s to transform enterprise planning processes by focusing on innovative and effective ways to integrate and improve strategic, operational and financial planning. Common challenges our clients face include:

• Developing and implementing the capabilities to execute their vision, including technology enablers, process design, organizational structure and management discipline
• Creating a linkage and interdependencies among strategic, operational and financial plans
• Defining a vision of closed loop processes and technologies that enables budgeting and forecasting to be predictive, accurate, efficient and drive desired organizational behaviors
• Developing the analytical capabilities to improve the insight and value that budgeting and forecasting provides

Our team is recognized as a leader in transforming Enterprise Wide Planning processes, with extensive design and implementation experience with a variety of consolidation applications such as Hyperion HFM and Cognos. Our knowledge of leading practices and proven methodologies allows us to guide our clients through efficient transformations that bring sustainable business benefits.

Our offerings include the following:

• Financial planning blueprint
• Financial systems selection
• Integrated process and technology design
• Implementation support
• Application optimization