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…

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…

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…