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The Secret to New Product Analysis
January 21, 2020

By Marco Singh, Commercial Finance Director at Ensono

 
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Cost Planning, Planning and Budgeting, Profitability Analysis, FP&A Analytics

In this blog I take a broader view of new products and talk about how best to monitor progress post-launch when information is still a little sketchy, volumes are still very low and reporting mechanisms may not yet be fully in place.

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Strategic Cost Control Without Killing Business Initiatives and Operations
September 12, 2019

By Anand Soni, Senior Finance and Commercial Professional

FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Cost Planning

What is the first thought you have, when you see the above topic which I am going to discuss with you? Sounds confusing? How is it possible to have cost control yet have business initiatives and without the operations getting hurt? You are not alone if you believe so. 
 

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Why Cost Volume Profit Analysis (CVP) Should Be a Main Step in Your Annual Profit Plan?
August 21, 2019

By Belal El-Shaf'ei, Board Advisor at PRO BusinessWare

FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Planning and Budgeting, Cost Planning, Profitability Analysis

Traditional budgeting process normally starts with forecasting sales levels, cost of goods sold then all operation expenses until reaching to the proforma income statement without understanding how changes in costs (both variable and fixed) & sales will affect profits in future periods. But modern FP&A professionals started to implement CVP analysis during the annual profit plan to study the interaction of sales with variable & fixed costs on the profits received.

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How to Manage Cost Without a Traditional Budget
April 18, 2019

By Bjarte Bogsnes, Founder of Bogsnes Advisory

FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Beyond Budgeting, Planning and Budgeting, Cost Planning

Although Beyond Budgeting is about so much more than just budgets, our name tends to draw people, at least initially, towards the budget word. Once there, cost management often pops up as the number one issue, for obvious reasons. How can we manage cost without a budget?

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The Illusions of Control
March 12, 2019

By Bjarte Bogsnes, Founder of Bogsnes Advisory

FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Cost Planning, Planning and Budgeting

“Control” is an interesting word in the management vocabulary. It is a word many managers struggle with defining. Beyond “cost control”, most are quite vague when it comes to other definitions.

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Is Zero-Based Budgeting Still Relevant?
January 21, 2019

By Carl Seidman, Principal at Seidman Financial

FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Planning and Budgeting, Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB), Cost Planning

This article will emphasize that ZBB is not exclusively for small businesses. It discusses zero-based budgeting as a tool that can be used to improve a company's understanding of is processes, risks, and opportunities and does not need to be applied to every line or department impacted in the budget.

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