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Adopt best practices in financial management

When you use best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts, you can respond to changing business conditions with speed and flexibility—this is the second step in the IBM Cognos® Performance Management Roadmap. Driving best practices will help you:

• Alter plans and adapt forecasts linked to business drivers at market speed
• Provide self-service access to key performance metrics for reporting and analysis
• Standardize universal processes and associated internal controls

Use these resources to learn not only how to drive best practices but why:

• Whitepaper: "Useful Budgets Is Not an Oxymoron" (0.98MB)
• Article: "Planning and Forecasting: Use Continuous Planning and Rolling Forecasts to Support Adaptive Management" (821KB)
• Online Demo: Best Practices in Enterprise Planning (00:13:34)

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