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Closing the Confidence Gap
A practical CFO diagnostic to assess planning maturity across visibility, scenario modelling, and execution. Identify the gaps slowing decision-making, and how to close them.
The planning gap no one talks about: why mid-market businesses are more exposed than they think
Mid‑market businesses sit in a dangerous middle ground: too complex for instinct‑led decisions, but still relying on spreadsheet‑based planning. This planning gap quietly increases risk, slows response, and erodes CFO confidence.
The Excel ceiling: when your most important planning tool becomes your biggest liability
Excel built the modern planning function, but it also quietly limits it. As scenarios take longer to run and risk hides in complexity, CFO confidence starts to fade. This article explores the real cost of...
Why your forecast was wrong again – and why it’s not your team’s fault
Forecasts are often wrong not because teams make mistakes, but because planning cycles move slower than the world around them. This piece explores the structural lag built into traditional FP&A processes, the external shocks that...
The forecast confidence gap: why bank CFOs don’t fully trust their own numbers, and what it takes to close the gap
The forecast confidence gap describes the tension many bank CFOs experience between the confidence a forecast projects and the confidence they actually feel. This insight explores where that gap comes from, assumption drift, disconnected models,...
Basel III Endgame and the Capital Planning Blind Spot: How regulatory change exposes the gap between capital compliance and capital strategy
As Basel III Endgame reshapes capital requirements across the US, UK, and Europe, many banks are discovering a dangerous disconnect between capital compliance and business strategy. This article explores why siloed capital planning is no...
How does Anaplan improve data driven decisions and streamline reporting?
Chris Roe is a Solution Consultant at Bedford, helping customers to understand the value of Anaplan within their own organisation. Chris has 10 years’ experience in the Enterprise Performance Management space including implementing and overseeing...
5 things to know about Bedford’s FP&A Application
Our FP&A accelerator model is a powerful and practical solution that can help you streamline your FP&A processes, improve your forecasting activities and enhance your business performance.
The nine stages of budgeting
As the business landscape evolves, a forward-thinking approach to budgeting is vital for companies aiming to navigate uncertainties and maximise growth. It is this strategic framework that steers businesses towards their financial and operational targets,...
Budgeting best practice: methods and when to use them as well as steps in the process.
Discover the key budgeting methods, best‑practice stages, and common blind spots that impact confidence and decision‑making, with practical guidance on when to use each approach
