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Operational Budget: Test Case Shows 50%+ Increase in Profit
Budget
May 21, 2020

By Alan Dybvig, Managing Partner at Dybvig Consulting

Alan Dybvig

Alan Dybvig is the managing partner of Dybvig Consulting. His intellectual property was implemented to create the operational budget (OB). His business experience includes 32+ years with IBM as a director and senior manager, primarily in supply chain and sales/marketing assignments, and then four years with a Warburg Pincus-financed supply chain startup where the idea for the OB germinated. He has had five articles published in the Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, two articles in the Institute of Management Accountants’ Strategic Finance and one each in the Institute for Business Forecasting's blog and INFORMS’ magazine, "OR/MS Today".

Alan Dybvig's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-dybvig-0a374ois/

FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Planning and Budgeting, Profitability Analysis

Activity-based costing data can be used to build a test case operational budget (OB) model. In this article, Alan explains the test model and provides data that was used in the process.

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The FP&A Trends Webinar: Collaborative Planning at The McDonald's Division - The Coca-Cola Company
Collaborative Planning
May 19, 2020
FP&A Tags:
Collaborative FP&A, FP&A Case Studies, Planning and Budgeting, Integrated FP&A, Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A)

Victor Barnes, Global CFO, The McDonald’s Division at The Coca-Cola Company, shared their recent global digital transformation initiative toward one source of truth to improve their processes.

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FP&A Board Connect: Zero-Based Budgeting. Part 2 (Business Case)
zero based budgeting
May 13, 2020
FP&A Tags:
Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB), FP&A Case Studies, Planning and Budgeting

At the third FP&A Board Connect, Lukas Herbert shared a business case study on Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB).

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A 120-Year Old Sugar Company Learnt the Importance of Forecasting
Case Study
May 13, 2020

By John Stretch,  MD at Stretch Business Training

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Case Studies, Forecasting Quality, Planning and Budgeting

Developing predictive models, forecasts and scenarios to assess risk and assist decision making is one of a finance department’s most important activities. If finance managers neglect this activity, the company may encounter serious problems.

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FP&A Board Connect: Zero-Based Budgeting Part 1. ZBB in Multinationals
Zero based budgeting
May 7, 2020
FP&A Tags:
Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB), Planning and Budgeting

At the second FP&A Boar Connect, Paul Harris, Experienced Commercial Finance Director and a member of the London FP&A Board, shared his extensive Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) experience with us.

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A Budget Begins with a Value Proposition
A Budget Begins with a Value Proposition
May 6, 2020

By Karl Kern, Accountant / Lecturer / Writer

FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Planning and Budgeting

A company exists in order to improve the well-being of its stakeholders. Achieving this task is based on the ability of a company to connect with its customers. How a company connects with its customers is through a value proposition.  

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