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Innovar Ltd Newsletter    

News update on financial planning for business

 

August 2013

 

Greetings!  

 

Well August is here, its holiday season, the hot summer continues and we have a new heir to the throne.

 

We are delighted to offer a service to provide a health check for spreadsheets so you can have more confidence  that they are producing meaningful and valid data. And incase you were wondering why it is important to keep your spreadsheets 'healthy' we have some more spreadsheet stories to give you nightmares.

 

Finally we have a look at putting a forecast together, be it a spreadsheet or some other solution and why giving it some thought and consideration will make it a more meaningful and useful tool within your business. 

 

We hope you find this useful and would welcome any feedback you may have. If you enjoyed reading this then please feel free to share this with your colleagues 

 

Innovar is the expert Cognos Planning, BOARD and  Anaplan, planning and training consultancy company, specialising in budgeting and forecasting software, planning and spreadsheet issues.

 

In this issue
How confident are you in your spreadsheets?
More Spreadsheet Stories to Give You Nightmares
Its the Thought That Counts
And finally
 
Health Check   

How confident are you in your spreadsheets?

Every business has them - but how confident are you in the information they are providing?

No doubt at one time, your spreadsheet was pristine and solved the problem you wanted it to. But then time moved on  and now you find that the spreadsheet has had so many adjustments and tweaks  that remembering exactly where everything is and how it functions can be a problem and it doesn't quite work the way you need it to.

At Innovar we offer a Spreadsheet Health Check service, which enables us, using our planning expertise, to assess your spreadsheets. We provide a thorough investigation of the spreadsheets you are concerned about. We then compile a comprehensive report and make recommendations for any improvements required. Once agreed we can even implement the changes for you.   

 

 Find out more at

Spreadsheet Health Check  

 
 

More Spreadsheet Stories to Give you Nightmares

  

Following on from my previous article Spreadsheet Nightmares, I have been doing more research into the use of spreadsheets and how, when they are used or managed incorrectly, they can have major consequences for business. So here are another 4 'nightmare' stories relating to spreadsheets.

 

 

Read Full Article Here 

 
Thoiught  

Its the Thought that Counts

In any Finance Department there are probably a number of people who would be able to put a forecast together but without the necessary thought and consideration the forecast is meaningless and a complete waste of time.

 


Read Full Article Here
 
Crystal Ball
And finally    

"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." 

 

Alan Lakein

 
 

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Best regards, 

 

Janice  

Janice Jones 

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If you want to improve your forecasting, then why not talk to me and find out if Innovar

can help you. We are "the planning experts" and we have helped hundreds of  

companies improve their planning processes so that they have more accurate forecasts  that take less time to complete.  

 

I can arrange to do a free web demo for you which will take just 45 minutes to complete.   

 

This could be the first step to helping you achieve all your budgeting, planning and  forecasting goals.