The Launch of the Boston FP&A Board took place on 24 October 2017. The first discussion was traditionally devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.

The next step of the Australian FP&A Board led us to meet in Melbourne with about 30 FP&A practitioners attending and debating about challenges, trends and best-practices in Financial Planning and Analysis.  We would like to share some of the insights from the event in short summarized form. The topic of this board was “FP&A Analytical Transformation”.

​Another successful FP&A Board was held in Sydney on 21st August 2018, where more than 50 FP&A practitioners attended and discussed their challenges and trends in Financial Planning and Analysis.

What are the key success factors for implementing an effective and efficient Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) process? The Singapore FP&A Board had a very interesting debate on the subject and the conclusions from the debate are reflected in this article.

On June 19^th, 2018, International FP&A Board launched the Toronto chapter. There were over 30 attendees, all senior finance executives, from various industries including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, technology, retail and hospitality

A move beyond traditional budgeting does not necessarily mean losing the budget. Rather, it’s important to reduce some of the traditional planning approach and taking a modern, flexible view of how to best remain agile and perform better.