This article summarises the research conducted in Turkey’s top 500 industrial companies. The aim of the research was to test the criticisms towards Traditional Budgeting and to understand if Better and Beyond Budgeting approaches are desirable in the current environment.
These notes were made during the meeting of the FP&A Board on 6th February 2020 in London. They are a mixture of comments made by attendees and thoughts of those who presented case studies. These notes are the copyright of the FP&A Board and are for the attendees of the FP&A Board and their business colleagues. They are not to be used in publications unless authorized by the FP&A Board.
It has been a good tradition for three years to hold the last FP&A Board of the year in Singapore. In November 2019, we had the 7th Singapore meeting to discuss the Beyond Budgeting philosophy.
We all know the budget and we all hate it! So why do we continue to do it when it represents a static picture of the world seen at one moment in time? It’s not like we haven’t realized that the world is a lot more dynamic these days.
On November 5th 2019 the sixth meeting of the Brussels FP&A Board, launched in November 2016, gathered 40 financial professionals from companies such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, Barco, Bekaert, Puratos, UCB, to name but a few.
Bjarte Bogsnes, Senior Advisor Performance Framework at Equinor (formerly Statoil) and Chairman Beyond Budgeting Roundtable, shares how Statoil has embraced the Beyond Budgeting principles to develop an “Ambition to Action Model”.