'Finance Planning' Category

  • Why Use Excel For Corporate Budgeting?

    June 13, 2010

    In recent years, there have been numerous calls for company to move away from Excel-based Corporate Budgeting to Business Performance Management/ Business Intelligence (BPM/BI) systems. Reasons cited include: Slow throughput time due to the complexity of the budget. Challenges in maintaining data accuracy during consolidation. Despite the repeated summons to move away from Excel-based Corporate [...]

  • What Household Budget Percentage Breakdown Is Typical?

    June 13, 2010

    The typical American household budget percentage breakdown looks like the list below. For most of the categories a range is shown. A range makes more sense to help you see where your personal budget fits (or doesn’t fit.) If your budget doesn’t fit the typical American household budget, rejoice! The average American household budget is [...]

  • Budgeting, Forecasting and Tax Planning

    June 11, 2010

    Corporate tax is a tax levied by various jurisdictions on the profits made by companies or associations. Tax will vary drastically from one jurisdiction to another. Allowances for capital expenditure as well as the total amount of interest payments that can be deducted from gross profits when working out the tax liability will both vary.Tax [...]

  • Financial Planning (Organizing your Budget)

    June 10, 2010

    A few years back a friend of mine accidentally saw one of my paychecks, he was shocked to see that he was earning more than me. He also noted the fact that his wife worked and mine did not. This particular friend had approach me a couple of times in need of a loan to [...]

  • 5 Year Personal Development Plan

    June 9, 2010

    Why not sit down for at least 10 minutes today and create a 5 year personal development plan for yourself. Where would you like to be in five years? What do you want to have accomplished? Visualize yourself as successful and write down your passions of what it is you want to be do have [...]