Quick, Nimble And Ready To Adapt

摘要

Looking into the future has never been easy, but it has never been more difficult than it is today. Organisations usually produce their forward metrics on the basis of historical data, so planning for a future that is going to be nothing like the past is particularly challenging. But if you want to survive the recession, you will need to repeatedly and rapidly re-forecast, and software could be your saviour. 'My clients are paying much more attention to cashflow management and financial forecasting,' reports David Warren, a partner with Watson Buckle, and many of them are now doing both on a weekly basis. Clients of the nine-partner firm range from sole traders, through owner-managed businesses, to very large private companies and subsidiaries of overseas holding companies, and they are taking a variety of approaches.