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Excel just does not have the Budget Intelligence that you need to manage your budgeting process. Resolving these 15 things will make an enormous difference in the quality and integrity of your budgeting process and add user flexibility and financial control at the same time. [ more ]

Administrators at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) have re-engineered their budget process to align it with the strategic plan and ensure fiscal accountability by using The Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to guide software purchasing and other investments. When a client asks how your product will help achieve the goals of a strategic plan, it's a different game than being asked what features you deliver. [ more ]

In this whitepaper, we apply the Malcolm Baldrige framework to the budget process, and identify specific areas in the budgeting process for improvement. [ more ]

XLerant was recently featured in Business Officer Magazine in an article titled "Self Service Budgeting". The article does a wonderful job of highlighting the challenges Drew University experienced with Excel based budgeting, and how the University partnered with XLerant to address them. [ more ]

XLerant Inc., a Norwalk, Conn.-based software company, has shuffled its executive team. As a result, XLerant has a new board chairman ... [ more ]

A review of XLerant's BudgetPak from a prestigious third party source. [ more ]

Published in the Journal of End User Computing's Special issue on Scaling Up End User Development - Raymond R. Panko, University of Hawaii [ more ]

As companies keep IT spending in check, executives have to make some hard choices about what they can live without. [ more ]

A funky roommate named recession is settling in on campuses this fall as colleges and universities slash budgets for virtually everything from ... [ more ]

It's all about building accountability and ownership of the numbers. [ more ]

Find out how you can improve your budget process, shorten the cycle time, and win over your internal customers. [ more ]

Beware firms that refuse to issue annual financial targets [ more ]

Companies are feeling less trapped by spreadsheets these days. [ more ]

Survey on the usability of budgeting and planning applications. [ more ]

Put budget development in the hands of the people doing the actual spending. [ more ]

American Productivity & Quality Center. APQC Best Practices in Planning Podcast. Founded in 1977, APQC is a member-based nonprofit that provides benchmarking and best-practice research for approximately 500 organizations worldwide in all industries. [ more ]

This one is just for fun (you deserve a break). As off the wall as Saturday Night Live can be, this video short featuring Rainn Wilson (from The Office) is timeless. [ more ]

Readers make some pointed additions to CFO.com's "worst practices" list. [ more ]

It's hard to weather an economic slowdown without a sound budget to steer by. [ more ]

Article explaining why Finance professionals love an Excel like interface for budgeting; while non-finance professionals don't. [ more ]

Article explaining why the Finance department is still having so much trouble getting willing participants in the budget process. [ more ]

From the Journal of Accountancy & Finance. [ more ]