5 Ways To Improve SME Efficiency With Business Automation

Business automation is a major part of the modern workplace. With the right applications, tools, and software to streamline everyday processes, business owners and employees can direct their focus to more complex jobs that require attention. This shift supports the company in its move towards growth and innovation. In this article, we will take a look…
How To Better Use Excel For Financial Reporting

As you know, Microsoft Excel is a powerful financial reporting tool for businesses. In fact, it is so powerful that even if you are an advanced user, you are likely not leveraging the application to its full potential when creating reports. Of course, the team at FD4Cast is always ready to provide you with expert help…
Forecasting In Excel: 3 Methods Commonly Used

If you are looking to work out how to adjust budgets, better understand inventory requirements, anticipate future sales or expenses, or similar, then forecasting in excel can be a solution. Done correctly, this technique can show you probabilities or future trends based on historical data and given assumptions. It is often done in Microsoft Excel,…
5 Advantages Of An MS Excel Template System Over Cloud-Based Applications For Financial Forecasting

Solid financial planning starts with solid forecasting. However, financial forecasting can be something of a minefield. Believe it or not, making educated predictions about a business’ future performance can’t always be produced from a package software solution. Every organisation is unique and there isn’t a person or cloud-based solution that can speak exactly to the…
Overview of VBA Excel for Financial Modelling

Huge amounts of data are analyzed for financial modelling, with experts turning to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and Excel to automate this. Excel is a powerful financial application, and with the right VBA input, can be used to create and maintain risk-management, trading, and pricing models, forecasts, and financial ratios, among others. This article…
Doing More with Less – Could SME’s do more to embrace Automation?

The concept of ‘Automation’, especially for IT-related processes, peppers general workplace talk these days on an ever-increasing scale. It’s the expectation that someone, somewhere, has already solved a particular problem, and that the solution is readily available for implementation. I’ve been in many meetings where the question has been asked “Haven’t we got someone who…