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Embrace your failures by learning from your mistakes

  ‘Failure’ is such a harsh word, that we will avoid it at all costs when we talk about our careers and our business ventures. It is seen as completely negative, as if failure and success are polar opposites. What if we told you that this simply isn’t true? That embracing your failures could actually […]

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How to share your Power BI dashboards

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Creating dashboards using Microsoft’s Power BI data visualisation tools is the ideal way to turn your heaps of raw data into something you can use every day within your business. However, you’re not getting the most out of it if you’re keeping it to one part of your business. […]

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How to Automate Financial Reports

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Financial Reporting can be a tedious and time consuming process for a financial manager. It generally takes a few days to create Month end excel reports and to simply make sure numbers balance. Excel now has additional tools (Power Query and Power Pivot) which allows […]

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Five reporting priorities for the modern CFO

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://www.e-magination.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CFO-Header-972×650.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The role of the CFO is constantly evolving as new technologies are introduced and organisational needs grow as businesses expand. They are having to adapt and prepare their businesses for the future in […]

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Some of the tools I depend on to run my business more efficiently

  In order to function more efficiently as a business, and have the competitive edge, you need to embrace the various productivity and communication tools available. There are tools to encourage productivity, save time, sharpen communications, and allow team members to clearly track their progress. The important thing to note is that what works for […]

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So you want to be an entrepreneur?

  You might be thinking of going down this road, or perhaps you have already started your journey into entrepreneurship, either way it is important that you know what you are in for on this ride. Back in the day, when ‘entrepreneur’ wasn’t such a trendy buzzword we would simply call someone a business woman […]

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The Finance Indaba highlighted some common themes in current SA fintech

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Last week some of the e-magination Infosolutions team attended the Finance Indaba for the first time. Financial professionals and service providers come from all over, from small businesses to large corporations, to either impart some knowledge or learn something new themselves that they can take […]

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The 2016 elections proved how powerful graphical representations of data can be

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Probably the most powerful way to view and digest big data is by way of graphical representation. We all consume data this way, and it has almost become second nature for us to read graphs and infographics to extract analytical insights so that we may […]

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Myths about Excel – Data volume limitation and historical analysis

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Headline” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Excel Myths about Data volume limitation and historical analysis [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Body Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] We chat about some of the myths that have been going around about Excel.  This conversation focusses on Excel only as an historical analysis tool and that that […]