How to budget as an early-stage startup
So you’ve just incorporated your startup, printed several thousand business cards, and changed your laptop screensaver to “I’m the CEO”. Now is the time to show future investors they can trust you by building a beautiful budget – because naturally, you know what you’re doing! Exciting possibilities lie before you – how are you going …
Feature spotlight: drivers
If you haven’t used drivers in your financial planning before, they’re like a mail merge for your budgets. Any planning that relies on a changeable figure – like a head count for personnel costs or an exchange rate for currency conversions – will work best as a driver.
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Beyond exists to help businesses navigate change, to enable them to make the most effective use of their resources and to keep employees in the loop no matter where they are. Right now, being able to do these things fast and well is more crucial than ever. We’ve been thinking how we can help as …
Activity Categories: new dimensions of budgeting
At Beyond, we breathe life into your budgets. This means giving you the context behind every actual or forecast – which activity does it belong to? Who’s responsible for it? Which budget does it come out of? Which financial month/year does it fall into? Being able to answer these questions in real-time already places you …
CFO Secrets: Effective budgeting for SMEs
Budgeting and its related processes can often be an overlooked task in a start-up or small business. Everyone is working at capacity and it’s one of those items on the to-do list that can easily be left on the back burner! It’s tempting to put off budgeting for another day (and another day, and another …
Rethinking the finance function in the age of robots
We all know the robots are coming. Coming for our data, coming for our jobs, and (if the more dramatic reports are to be believed) coming for our very existence. Or are they? Let’s pick apart the A.I. fact from the hype and see where the real opportunities lie for the future finance function. They …