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Less Is More – FP&A Storytelling
Storytelling
August 25, 2020

By Tijana Balotic Truong, Commercial Finance and Performance Management Professional

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Skills, FP&A Storytelling

Knowing your numbers is a good starting point for an FP&A professional. But it is also required to know how to present the findings to others.

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Data Visualisation and Storytelling in FP&A
January 14, 2020

By Carl Seidman, Principal at Seidman Financial

FP&A Tags:
Data Visualisation, Data-Driven FP&A, FP&A Storytelling

The purpose of Financial Planning and Analysis is not to build perfect forecasts and financial solutions. The purpose is simply to make better business decisions. Numbers themselves can support decision-making, but the story convinces people to make the right decision. This article will discuss best practices in data visualisation that resonate with financial and non-financial people alike.
 

 
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Creating Corporate Scorecards
November 19, 2019

By Marco Singh, Commercial Finance Director at Ensono

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Storytelling, FP&A KPI, Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard is a familiar concept, still widely used today, often falling to FP&A or Strategic Planning teams to create and then monitor. This process can be very challenging and problematic to deliver. This blog focuses on some practical observations and tips regarding the implementation of a scorecard, designed to help you get buy-in from the rest of the organisation.

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Improving Communication With Data Visualisations
June 18, 2019

By John Sanchez, Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer and Author

FP&A Tags:
Data Visualisation, FP&A Storytelling

Research shows that the human retina can transmit data to the brain about 60,000 times faster than it can transmit simple text! On top of processing visuals faster, people retain visual information at more than three times the rate of text alone.

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Applying Analytics to Storytelling
February 11, 2019

By John Sanchez, Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer and Author

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Analytics, Financial Planning and Analysis, Data Visualisation, FP&A Storytelling, FP&A Skills

According to Google's Chief Economist, Dr. Hal Varian, "The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it— that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades."

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Making the Complex Easy to Understand: Analytics & Visualization
January 15, 2019

By John Sanchez, Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer and Author

FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Data Visualisation, FP&A Analytics, FP&A Storytelling

To paraphrase the concept of Occam's razor, simpler explanations are generally better than more complex explanations. In a sense, the answer is in the question, "How do we make the complex easier to understand?" Keep the explanations simple.

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