NATICK, Mass., June 15, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Centage ™ Corporation, a leading provider of budgeting and forecasting software (Budget Maestro™) for small and medium sized businesses, will sponsor a new webinar, "Better Planning through Balance Sheet Forecasting," on Friday, June 19th at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. Featuring speaker Bruce Lynn, a long-time corporate treasury leader and consultant specializing in cash and working capital management, and moderated by Blaire Cook, corporate director, Clarke Inc., and many-time CFO. The webinar will educate attendees on the value of balance sheet forecasting to strengthen the quality of an earnings forecast and help predict the future financial health of an organization.
Quick links:
• Better Planning through Balanced Forecasting
• Friday, June 19th at 2:00 p.m. EDT/11:00 a.m. PDT
• Click here to register (all registrations will receive a link to a recording of the event)
With more than 20 years of experience, Bruce will offer practical best practices in balance sheet forecasting, using real life examples to help cement the learning. Bruce will also discuss the assumptions required to forecast key components of any balance sheet with its ability to provide insight into future financial ratios, working capital (A/R, Inventory and A/P), cash and investments, CAPEX, debt and equity.
Key learning objectives include:
- Recognize why balance sheet forecasting is important and how to link it to a P & L forecast
- Identify the assumptions required to forecast key components of any balance sheet
- Identify how to initiate a balance sheet forecast
Bruce Lynn has over 20 years of corporate and banking experience in all aspects of treasury and financial management and serves as Managing Director, Financial Executives Consulting Group. Previously, he was a managing director of Greenwich Treasury Advisors, a treasury and risk management consulting firm. Bruce is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP).
About Centage
Budget Maestro® by Centage is an easy-to-use, scalable, automated budgeting, planning, and forecasting application. It is designed for small to mid-market companies and automates many of the time-consuming and error-prone activities associated with using spreadsheets to generate accurate budgets and forecasts. It features built in financial and business logic that allow users to build and update their budgets and forecasts and never worry about formulas, functions, links or any custom programming. It is the only solution in the market that offers synchronized P &L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow reporting that generate automatically and seamlessly update. Budget Maestro serves more than 7,000 users worldwide. Visit us at www.centage.com. For more information follow us on Twitter @Centage or visit our blog http://blog.centage.com/ for the latest insights on budgeting and forecasting strategies.
About Proformative, Inc.
The leading online professional development platform for the office of the CFO, Proformative enables finance professionals to make smarter business decisions, connect with their peers, build their skills and advance their careers. In addition to an unparalleled peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing community, members also have access to Proformative Academy™, which provides excellence in online learning through highly focused courses taught by experienced finance practitioners. Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Proformative reaches 2 million users annually, ranging from CPAs and financial analysts to Controllers and CFOs, from startups to Fortune 500 companies.