This year’s FP&A Trends Survey, which has taken responses from 383 finance practitioners across diverse industries and regions, looks in depth at the ways FP&A supports data-led decision-making in the current dynamic landscape as well as the future developments that need to be implemented.

This year, responses were gathered from 385 finance practitioners, covering companies of all sizes, from all regions, and industries.

In this article, the author explains the challenge of translating the impact of business activities or initiatives devised after the planning cycle. This article provides a comprehensive view of mitigating it in the post-planning part of the cycle with the FP&A team’s involvement and applying Driver-Based Planning.

In this blog series, the author provides a comprehensive approach to the design, construction, roll-out and maintenance of a modern driver-based planning solution. Here, he focuses on determining the decisions the model is to support and outlines why understanding the factors on which the decisions will be made is crucial.

In this video, Luis Parra, Financial Executive - CFO (most recently with Scotiabank), speaks about what involves being a true Finance Business Partner and using external benchmarks and business drivers in the planning process.

In this series of blogs, the author will be providing a comprehensive approach to the design, construction, roll-out and maintenance of a modern analytic driver-based model. He also outlines several necessary requirements for building this model successfully.