Scaling New Performance Management Heights in 2011 Integrated Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting Seminar   Date  : Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Time  : 8:30 am – 11:30 am Central Standard Time Location: Sheraton Dallas Hotel 400 N. Olive Street Dallas, TX  75204 RSVP  : Register using the form at the bottom of this page Cost  : Free       As the economy continues to recover, surveys show that finance teams in companies of all sizes are now focusing on the biggest opportunities for creating strategic value -- and in particular, on how they can optimize their business performance management. Do you agree with your peers? Would you like to be able to dramatically streamline and improve the effectiveness of your FP&A cycle, resulting in higher revenues, lower expenses, and improved competitiveness? Join us for an educational seminar that will review best practices for optimizing each step in the performance management cycle -- budgeting and planning, monitoring and managing against KPIs, variance reporting and analysis, what-if analysis, and re-forecasting / rolling forecasts. Discover the key obstacles that are keeping finance organizations from achieving their potential, and how companies of all sizes have overcome the hurdles with modern, on-demand planning and reporting solutions -- solutions that are powerful yet easy to use, deploy in just weeks, and cost 75% less than traditional on-premise software. Hear how leading companies and nonprofits, such as American Red Cross, CORT Business Services, Konica Minolta, Pep Boys, NetSuite, Vail Resorts, and many more, have truly transformed their businesses by integrating their FP&A processes and underlying technologies -- quickly, easily, and affordably. Earn CPE credit and learn how your organization can: Reduce budgeting time by 90% while eliminating errors Deliver timely and accurate re-forecasts & what-if-scenarios Drive better business decisions through improved reporting and analysis Improve company-wide participation and alignment Increase the strategic value of finance This event is co-sponsored by Abacist Group, a management consulting firm based in Dallas, Texas dedicated to providing services to their clients that promote higher performance and sustainable growth. Sign up today for this complimentary seminar and learn how you, too, can transform your business performance management, by adopting best practice processes and tools, as you navigate 2011 and beyond.      Agenda  8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Welcome  9:10 AM - 9:40 AM Trends and Best Practices in Budgeting Bill Aiken, Principal & CEO Abacist Group 9:40 AM - 10:10AM Adaptive Planning Overview  Sandra Stearns, Adaptive Planning 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM Adaptive Planning Customer Highlights 10:40 AM - 11:30 AM Adaptive Planning Demo and Q&A  Dave Brasnick, Adaptive Planning         REGISTER TO ATTEND THIS SEMINAR BY COMPLETING THE FORM BELOW.     REGISTRATION FORM  First Name:  Last Name:  Title:    Company:  Email Address:  State/Province:  -- Please Select -- AK AL AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY (Provinces...) 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