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If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught finance & accounting pros, it’s that traditional methods for forecasting and budgeting won’t cut it anymore.

In the Covid-19 economic downturn, ProvenCFO is using Jirav to create "skyfall" scenario planning and cash flow projections in just a few hours per client.

Watch this recorded webinar in which we share best practices that will help you turn the annual planning process from a chore into an essential strategic...

We've entered into an alliance with CPA.com, a subsidiary of the AICPA, to be their preferred solution for financial planning and analytics.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our virtual booth at this year’s Sage Intacct Advantage. We’ll be sure to get your pair of Jirav socks in the mail soon!

Dinsdale has served as CFO of Gusto since October 2017. Gusto provides cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR management software to US small businesses.

Register for our free product update webinar to learn how you can leverage the latest and greatest Jirav updates to get the most from all-in-one FP&A.

The latest Jirav release is jam packed with powerful updates including Collaborative Planning, Assumptions, Table Level Comments, Staff Raises, and more.

Financial modeling is the foundation of proper business planning. Here's how to get the most out of your driver based forecasting model.

Expect your finance team to generate forward-looking reports that help you measure progress toward hitting your goals on a monthly basis.

When it comes to financial modeling, accuracy wins over precision every time. Here's the difference between precision and accuracy, and why it matters.

Jirav will help small and medium-sized businesses survive this recession and thrive when the economy recovers. Our team is energized for the challenge.

There's a better way for finance teams using Sage Intacct to provide both historical and forward-looking reporting with less effort and more automation.

QuickBooks custom reports sometimes lack the depth and flexibility needed by CFOs, controllers and the rest of the finance team. Jirav is here to help!

Learn about what’s new in the Jirav app so you can get the most out of your all-in-one business planning, reporting, and dashboarding solution.

If you’re a finance pro who feels like the rug has been pulled out from under your feet, you’re not alone.

There's a better way for finance teams using Oracle NetSuite to provide both historical and forward-looking reporting with less effort and more automation.

Whether you’re new or experienced at financial modeling, this session will equip you with best practices for planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

Virtual backgrounds protect your privacy, make you seem more professional (especially when working from your bedroom), and can even be a ton of fun.

Learn best practices for cash forecasts in that incorporate common working capital assumptions including loan amortizations, equipment purchases, and more.

How long will coronavirus last? What will happen when we reopen? Here's a free spreadsheet you can use to model it out through 2020 and beyond.

How you use those PPP funds and the records you keep can make a huge difference to your bottom line. Join us to learn what you need to do.

Everyone is talking about how CPA firms need to move from compliance to advisory services, but what does that mean? Here’s a new approach.

The role of accounting advisors is critical in crisis. Read on to see examples of firms stepping up to help their clients in a difficult time.

It’s time to shift our thinking from top line revenue to maintaining cash flow while preserving our customer base. Here are three ways you can pivot.

Here are three ways you can use Jirav to model expenses associated with employees such as payroll taxes, benefits, and equipment purchases.

Here's how to get your hands on a piece of the $349 billion allocated by Congress to combat the economic impact of COVID-19.

Here are 6 HR metrics that accountants can use in their people advisory services. With these KPIs, accountants can better advise clients on people...

Accounting & finance professionals should be a voice of reason. It’s our job to help “flatten the curve” of the economic impact on small businesses.

Our experts applied for their own SBA loan & assisted several clients with applications. They’ll be sharing everything they’ve learned so far.

We've taken what the research says and built a simple epidemiological spreadsheet model for the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. When will it end?

With the right information at your fingertips, you can help your clients craft a financial plan that ensures the survival of their business.

Download this simple Excel model to test your own assumptions and run scenarios to forecast the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Providing high-level, value-driven services doesn’t have to be overly complicated. A great place to start is with a financial forecast.

A big update is coming to the Jirav app in March!

Driver-based planning is a method of forecasting and budgeting that focuses on the key drivers of business results, helping you better achieve your goals.

Lei will own the Product function as our company grows and Jirav rockets to the next stage of astronomical growth.

Transparency at the highest levels of the business is key. The best way to be transparent about the state of the organization and its goals is visual.

Learn in 40 minutes how Jirav helps CPA firms increase margins, improve relationships, and charge more for high value advisory services in a scalable way.

Learn how one CPA was able to connect actuals from accounting, payroll, and Excel, creating a live financial model for the business immediately.

Todd Serulneck explains how he uses Jirav as a fractional CFO to elevate the conversation with his clients and why it’s better than Excel for planning.

It’s not enough to set goals, work hard, and check results at the end of the year. You also need to revisit your goals. Here's how KPIs make that possible.

Over the past few months we have started rolling out design changes to the app, making it more consistent, touch friendly and optimized for various screen...

Basic forecasting is a poor substitute for proper planning, and you can really only make a good plan (and budget) with a driver-based financial model.

Jirav lets you define sets of custom lines & group them into hierarchies, which can then be referenced from anywhere else in the platform, saving you time.

With financial forecasting, accounting professionals can help clients look ahead, set realistic goals, and track progress.

Comments and notifications in Jirav bring the conversation right where the data is, easily bringing everyone on the same page and transforming how...

Jirav helped a biotechnology company raise $15 million to develop its technology enabling the early detection of sepsis, a life-threatening condition.

I imagine many of you have made personal New Year’s resolutions. Did you also make any resolutions for your business?

Accounting and bookkeeping firms that want to grow should take a page from Amazon's playbook and stop worrying about profitability on each and every deal.

Now in Jirav you can define and visualize runway in multiple ways, and pick the one that makes the most sense for your business.

The Jirav team is excited to be a sponsoring at QBC 2019! Check out our San Jose visitor guide to discover some cool spots around the conference.

Jirav has highly customizable reporting features and it just added a way to hide rows within any report to further customize the complexity and data...

Jirav helps you tell the story of your business using dashboards, reports and plans. We already had a way to customize the date ranges for any data that...

Jirav eliminates Excel from financial modeling and reporting. But sometimes we still need the final outputs in Excel. Multi-tab-export export lets you do...

Jirav is designed for instant gratification. Within minutes you end up with a beautiful dashboard and reporting package that you can customize further to...

I am a Norwegian business student interning this summer at Jirav in San Francisco. Here I explain how I built a financial model for an IoT company.

I am a Norwegian business student interning this summer at Jirav in San Francisco. Here I explain how I built a financial model for an accounting firm.

Financial reporting and forecasting can be very complicated and intimidating. At Jirav our goal is to make the experience easy and intuitive. Jirav's...

Jirav already supports user roles for assigning different permissions to different users. We just released user groups, making it even easier to manage...

We just released the ability to assign color families to any custom data you bring in, making the charts even more colorful and cohesive.

We are very honored and excited to win the 2019 CPA Practice Advisor Accounting Innovation award! 

A quick review of our experience at AICPA ENGAGE, Scaling New Heights, and Xerocon in June! And jiravfies!

For companies that have deferred revenue, it's very useful to get the sales backlog reflected accurately in the forecast. Jirav has a full revenue...

Now you can create a report package as a template. On publish, all the data is frozen into an online snapshot that can be shared directly or as a PDF.

We're excited to announce we'll be hosting booths at AICPA ENGAGE, Scaling New Heights, and Xerocon this month

Jirav already lets you create pretty sophisticated bottom-up revenue models. Now Jirav lets you make simpler assumptions directly on revenue.

Jirav now lets you completely customize the chart of accounts within Jirav that can be mapped to any existing or even future chart of accounts in an...

We just released driver drilldown. It's a very powerful feature that lets you easily see all the underlying assumptions behind a plan and change them...

Sometimes, you just want to focus into one part and use the full screen to review and make changes. We just released a fullscreen mode that lets you...

Jirav helps you create beautiful reports and combine them into different packages, letting you tailor your story to your audience. We already had...

Jirav helps you create beautiful dashboards in minutes letting you tailor your story to your audience. We already had role-based sharing and we just added...

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A group of giraffes is called a 'tower'. So we created a tower of giraffes at our office!

Allocations help you split income and expenses between Departments (Classes/Tracking Categories) and Accounts to better reflect their true categorization....

Jirav now lets you define global products that are synced across all your plans and can be mapped to your actual customer backlog.

Jirav is now officially in the Xero marketplace!

Jirav now supports custom revenue recognition schedules in your plans, letting you model very complex products and projects.

Jirav now supports any currency. It is automatically synced with the currency used in your accounting system.

Department mapping lets you map different lists of departments across accounting and workforce into a master list of Jirav departments

We just rolled out accounting automatic import to keep your accounting data refreshed automatically

Now you can use Report Packages to customize your reports for different uses and audiences.

Now you can use Multiple Dashboards to tailor your story for your different audiences.

We just rolled out the Close Month feature to let you better control how the dashboards get refreshed.

If you have been curious to try out Jirav on your own, now you can! We just opened up free 30 day trials of Jirav Lite (Dashboarding, Reporting, and Goal...

Jirav enjoyed the Quickbooks Connect Conference, please enjoy our blog post on the journey Jirav had throughout the conference. The team at Jirav will...

Jirav is excited to be an exhibitor at Quickbooks Connect where attendees will have a chance to stop by for a demo of Jirav and some socks.

We have been busy adding features and we just released three more. You can now invite users and assign them different roles. New formatting rules let you...

Recently we shipped three new features. Table tiles are perfect for presenting dense numerical data in a single tile. Limited user lets you redact...

Jirav now supports direct integration of accounting data imports straight from Netsuite.

We are Loke Hegge and Kahni Ismail, two Norwegian Business students spending this summer interning at Jirav in San Francisco. Our first project was to...

Recently we shipped two new features—Multi-series Dashboard Tiles and Custom Line Subtotals. Multi-series tiles are perfect for presenting data from more...

Jirav shipped two new features—Global and Periodic Change Drivers. Global Drivers are formulas that you create in Jirav to calculate other lines in the...

Product Update: Recently we shipped two new features—Google Sheets integration and Goals. Google Sheets can now be a source of actuals for KPIs that don’t...

Two new features from Jirav: Text Tiles and the Sales Report. Text Tiles live on the Jirav dashboard and are perfect for communicating important...

Jirav's latest update includes importing historical data for custom lines, creating custom revenue recognition schedules, and supporting fiscal years.

The Gartner Analytics Maturity Model will help FP&A teams move from low-value number crunching to high-value strategic partners that drive the business.

In this webinar, Acuity COO Matthew May teams up with Jirav CEO Martin Zych to help finance leaders ask the right questions for their business.

Today we are excited to talk about Reports & Table Redesign, and Custom Reports.

Today we are excited to talk about Universal Addressability, Vector Math and Dashboard Customization

Today we are excited to talk about Custom Lines, a feature that opens up Jirav models to a new level of sophistication.

The post is a collection of our favorite data analytics maturity models. The different variations provide multiple opportunities to find a model that best...

Over the past few months we've worked tirelessly to release the following new key capabilities within the app: Cash Flow, Staffing Drivers and Plan...

8ft giraffe spotted in San Francisco, picture and drone video.

Over the past few months we've worked tirelessly to release the following new key capabilities within the app: Reports, Variances, Bookings Actuals,...

Aerial Drone Photo of Jirav Poland HQ in Torun in the Snow

What do giraffes have to do with financial planning?

The Jirav team at Alchemist Accelerator Class XIV Demo Day!

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