The goal of financial management of maximizing shareholder wealth can be assessed through a variety of measurements. What this variety of measurements may not assess is potential problems in relationships between businesses and stakeholders. One way to assess potential problems with these relationships is to look for fractures. This article describes how to identify fractures through FP&A within three elements on the balance sheet.
By Randall Bolten, longtime Silicon Valley CFO, author of "Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You” and adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley Extension.
There are so many ways to graph information, and many of them are not just labor-intensive, but cognitively ineffective. But even if you’ve chosen one of the more effective ways of graphing information, also remember that graphs work best when you’re trying to make a single, critically important point.
In my last article, I listed four questions you should ask yourself, and the order you should ask them in. In this article, we address Question #1: Which is the most effective way to impart your key information?
By Randall Bolten, longtime Silicon Valley CFO, author of "Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You” and adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley Extension.
When the graph is the right way to present your FP&A information, several important questions should be asked.
As Finance leaders, we can’t expect the business to view Finance as value-added partners if we can’t put a stop to this often-inaccurate stereotype in advance. So where should we start? The answer lies in better communication along with greater transparent and objective measurements that can be easily understood and used by all.
In this episode of the FP&A Trends Series, Ramkumar Balasubramaniam, Head of FP&A and MI at Barclays Bank in the UAE and a member of Dubai FP&A Board, shares his thoughts on the latest FP&A trends in the banking industry.