News & Blogs - First Water Finance

Sep 12, 2024 |

Welcome to the First Water Finance Resource Library, your gateway to cutting-edge thought leadership in FP&A and Corporate Finance, provided by our expert team and... Read More

Welcome to the First Water Finance Resource Library, your gateway to cutting-edge thought leadership... Read More

Managed FP&A

Forecasting & Planning

Cash & Working Capital Visibility

Planning With Uncertainty: Master Constraints and Binary Events to Extract Maximum Value

Jul 30, 2024 |

Ben Lehrer

Finance teams are facing unprecedented challenges in producing accurate forecasts, as external factors continue to impact company performance. Each passing year seems to bring its... Read More

Finance teams are facing unprecedented challenges in producing accurate forecasts, as external factors continue... Read More

Managed FP&A

Forecasting & Planning

Cash & Working Capital Visibility

Planning Transformers: Avoiding Obsolescence in Budgets and Forecasts

Jul 30, 2024 |

Ben Lehrer

Companies that move quickly or experience transformative events – be it through acquisitions, new product launches, or emerging revenue streams – face a common challenge:... Read More

Companies that move quickly or experience transformative events – be it through acquisitions, new... Read More

Managed FP&A

Forecasting & Planning

Cash & Working Capital Visibility

Constraint-Based Budgeting (CBB): Navigating Planning with Restrictions

Jul 18, 2024 |

Ben Lehrer

Factors largely outside of companies’ control continue to influence performance, wreaking havoc on comparisons to plan and related attribution analyses. The last number of years... Read More

Factors largely outside of companies’ control continue to influence performance, wreaking havoc on comparisons... Read More

Acquisitions & Business Sale

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The End of Finance Transformation

Jun 5, 2024 |

Ben Lehrer

Say goodbye to transformation, and hello to readiness. The concept of finance transformation has been around for decades, as CFOs and their teams have sought... Read More

Say goodbye to transformation, and hello to readiness. The concept of finance transformation has... Read More

Capital & Transactions

Acquisitions & Business Sale

Financing Alternatives

Growth Capital

Managed FP&A

Reporting & Business Intelligence

Forecasting & Planning

What Does it Mean to be “Finance Ready?”

May 18, 2024 |

Ben Lehrer

In small and emerging mid-market businesses, finance often plays second fiddle to the more immediate and earlier-stage demands of accounting. While invoicing clients, settling bills,... Read More

In small and emerging mid-market businesses, finance often plays second fiddle to the more... Read More