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FP&A Trends White Paper 2020
FP&A Trends White Paper 2020: Adapting FP&A to the New Normal
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The New Normal means that planning is no longer an extrapolation of the past. Similarly, business drivers that worked last

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  1. FP&A Transformation
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Survey 2017
FP&A Transformation Survey 2017: Delivering Strategic Value in the Digital Age
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The role of the CFO is changing: It’s moving away from compliance and optimization, towards a more strategic; customer facing

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  1. FP&A People
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  4. FP&A Team Building
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How Do Incompetent Managers Survive the Planning Process?
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Grant Tait

By Grant Tait, Author, former Finance Director

Grant is a qualified chartered accountant with an MBA from INSEAD in France. His career included more than 25 years managing teams in Europe in multinational corporations whose headquarters were in USA, Italy, Switzerland and Japan and before that, he was an accountant in various professional firms in the UK and Europe. He has also been involved in three start-ups, and worked as a consultant and transition manager.

Grant also writes on Medium and LinkedIn. He has written a book about managers who never make decisions called ‘How to become a no-decision manager’ and has a blog on them: https://nodecisionmanager.co.uk/ He has a second blog making fun of accountants: https://boring accountants.co.uk/ He has also written humorous articles about life in multinationals, anonymously or as Grant Petrie to protect his employment. They were published in various professional magazines such as Management Today, Personnel Journal and Management Accounting. He now lives in France.

A plan, for an incompetent manager, is just an administrative task that needs to be completed to satisfy the boss

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The Digital Central European FP&A Board. FP&A 2030: Key Skills and Capabilities for the Next Decade
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Join the Digital Central European FP&A Board on the 7th of December to discuss Key Skills and Capabilities in FP&A for the Next

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Growing Skills for a Changing FP&A Function
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This is an exciting time to be in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). Because of Brexit, COVID-19 and ongoing digital

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Three Key Elements to Building Synergistic FP&A Teams in the “Next Normal”
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In anticipation of turning the pandemic corner, companies are contemplating the return to the office or some form of the

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