Starting a business and sustaining one are two very different things that are both essential in their own way. Your accounting team handles the current data of your business while Financial Planning and Analysis enable your foresight and wisdom for what can be done ahead.

After an absence of almost two years, I was looking forward to joining the London FP&A Board meeting, where a group of senior finance professionals met in person, many experiencing their first face-to-face industry event since the initial lockdown in the UK back in March 2020.

In this series of blogs, I am looking at areas where FP&A departments must improve if they are to support organisation decision-making in this technology-driven age. In this blog, I’ll cover the new staffing roles that are essential.

For FP&A in today’s business climate, agile planning is basically the speed and flexibility with which organisations can make adjustments to what it wants to achieve.

Scenario management plays a vital role in a world of irrelevant budgets and inaccurate forecasts.

In this series of blogs, I will be looking at a number of areas that FP&A departments must address if they are to add value to the organisations they serve in this technology-driven age.  In this blog I’ll cover the reasons why change is essential.