Centage Kicks Off Innovative Webinar Series "Advances in Budgeting"

NATICK, MASS., July 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Centage™ Corporation, a leading provider of budgeting and forecasting software (Budget Maestro™) for small and medium sized businesses, will present a summer budget preparation webinar series called "Advances in Budgeting". The thirty minute sessions will utilize the automated, formula-free Budget Maestro solution to demonstrate emerging best practices and innovative new approaches to common budget and forecast challenges. For more information or to register for the webinar series visit the registration links provided for each session below.

Scheduled webinars include:

• "Replacing the (Frustrating) Excel® Template"
Be a Finance Pro, Not a programmer
Thursday, July 30th at 2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT
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• "One is the Loneliest Number of Budget Versions"
It's an Infinite What If World
Wednesday, August 12th at 3:00 p.m. EDT / 12:00 p.m. PDT
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• "Why P &L Budgeting Isn't Enough"
The Benefits of Automated Balance Sheet Budgeting and Cash Flow Forecasting
Tuesday, August 25th at 1:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. PDT
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• "Budgeting Without the Formula Bar"
Let the Computer Maintain the Model
Tuesday, September 8th at 2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT
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In less than half an hour, each unique session will unpack new and different subject matter. Our hosts will call on industry practitioners and experts from within Centage who collectively have built thousands of budgets. Key learning objectives include:
• How organizations can solicit budget feedback, provide budget guidance and consolidate budget and forecast input without the use of cumbersome spreadsheet templates;
• Understand the limitations of static budgets and articulate the value of scenario planning;
• Recognize why balance sheet forecasting is important and how to link it to a P & L forecast;
• How to free yourself from the macros, lookups and function terminology of Excel® budgets.

The webinar series is sponsored in part by the Centage Partner Channel. Centage Solution Partners are the industry's premier financial software companies delivering exceptional value, by leveraging deep understanding of accounting and finance systems (ERP) to complement Centage's world class budgeting, forecasting and Business Intelligence (BI) products. Centage offers three partner programs to meet the needs of a variety of partners – Solution Partner, Referral Partner, and Technology Partner – all of which are designed to help partners grow their businesses with exceptional financial management solutions. To learn more visit www.centage.com/partners.

About Centage
Budget Maestro® by Centage is an easy-to-use, scalable, automated budgeting, planning, and forecasting application. It is designed for small to mid-market companies and automates many of the time-consuming and error-prone activities associated with using spreadsheets to generate accurate budgets and forecasts. It features built in financial and business logic that allow users to build and update their budgets and forecasts and never worry about formulas, functions, links or any custom programming. It is the only solution in the market that offers synchronized P &L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow reporting that generate automatically and seamlessly update. Budget Maestro serves more than 7,000 users worldwide. Visit us at www.centage.com. For more information follow us on Twitter @Centage or visit our blog http://blog.centage.com/ for the latest insights on budgeting and forecasting strategies.

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