Derek Krebs will be presenting “How Microsoft Forecaster Overcomes 10 Common Pitfalls of Spreadsheet Budgeting” at the MS Dynamics World Decisions Fall 2011 virtual conference.

Derek has over 20 years of experience in the fields of accounting, finance and business intelligence software. Prior to becoming a partner and senior consultant with the MSX Group in 2009, Derek spent 11 years consulting at FRx Software and Microsoft where he implemented financial reporting, budgeting, and business intelligence software at over 200 clients world-wide and trained over 5000 end users. In addition, Derek has a MBA education and 6 years of experience as a financial analyst and assistant controller where he gained expertise in financial accounting, GL closes, auditing, budgeting and reporting

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Derek describes his session as follows:

Studies show that a surprising 70% of mid-sized organizations use spreadsheets to manage their budgeting process. This session will examine how ten pitfalls of spreadsheet budgeting can be overcome by adopting Microsoft Forecaster for Microsoft Dynamics ERP. Forecaster is a streamlined application built to overcome the problem of inefficient budgeting. Forecaster, a product that many Microsoft Dynamics ERP customers may already own, may be adopted in as little as one to three weeks time.

Forecaster for Microsoft Dynamics ERP is used in annual budgeting, continuous forecasting, and scenario planning processes. This session discusses how you can transform your planning, reporting, and analysis to gain greater insight and accuracy, security, speed, collaboration, and reliability with the use of Forecaster.

If your organization has stretched spreadsheet budgeting beyond its natural limits, join us in this discussion on how Forecaster provides solutions to the major pitfalls associated with budgeting in Excel Hell. Learn how you can spend more time analyzing your budget than creating it and enjoy a world with no more broken formulas or links!

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