Budgets were invented in the Industrial Age as an efficient management tool. So why in this day and age of VUCA, most of the organisations around the world are still so hung up on traditional budgeting?

Those who follow developments in FP&A closely have proclaimed a New Age of Zero-Based Budgeting. So what exactly does this mean? What do organisations find so appealing about this alternative to traditional budgeting, and how can we best implement it?

FP&A Storytelling has been one of the biggest trends in FP&A over the last few years as executives and C-level leaders want to know how their company is performing, what segments are performing well or not so well, and why so. 

This article provides an overview of the topics and cases presented and discussed by the experts at the webinar “Cash Flow Planning - Why the Traditional Profit-Driven Mindset Needs to Be Rethought”, as well as the results of our polling questions. 

In the last couple of years, we have seen the business world turn upside down and organisations confronted with an ever-changing and dynamic environment. The traditional budgeting process is long obsolete. With most Organisations are not ready to abandon their traditional budgeting, Zero Based Budgeting is definitely a great way of improving and keeping the traditional budget relevant.

Nowadays cash flow is a trending topic and especially in FP&A where we are generally focused on P&L forecast and management. When we talk about cash flow there are three main pillars: liquidity, valuation, and performance.