A budget uses numbers to express thoughts which can be done broadly, narrowly, or both. How thoughts are expressed is important in a budget. If a budget is not impressed properly, it becomes irrelevant in many ways.
While rolling forecasts have clear benefits, their successful implementation needs to consider several risk areas. The purpose of this article is to explore what consequences and costs a move to rolling forecasting has for the other actors involved in the process.
By deploying integrated FP&A organisations see greater performance improvements compared with traditional FP&A processes. This is enabled by combining strategic planning, business planning and forecasting and operations planning and forecasting.
Drivers are the catalysts to initiatives. But which ones are the most important? And how to deal with challenges that come with driver based planning?
In order for a company to exist, it must organize itself in a way that fulfills its value proposition because a value proposition has enormous power. So, how can a company organize itself? The answer is with a budget.
How can you successfully implement a Zero-Based FP&A design? There are 10 practical steps to be taken into consideration.