In this series of blogs, I will be looking at a number of areas that FP&A departments must address if they are to add value to the organisations they serve in this technology-driven age. In this blog I’ll cover the reasons why change is essential.
Michael Coveney
Michael Coveney spent 40+ years in the software analytic business with a focus on transforming the planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes. He has considerable experience in the design and implementation of Business Analytic systems with major organisations throughout the world. He is a gifted conference speaker and author where his latest book ‘Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning In Uncertain Times’is published by J Wiley. His articles have also appeared on www.fpa-trends.com, that encourages innovation in FP&A departments.
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Fortunately, an increasing number of organisations have come to embrace what IFP&A can offer. These people ‘step outside the box' and create solutions that are both innovative and that help management to improve organisational performance.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of those terms surrounded in mystery and which promises a lot. It’s also a term that is easy to misunderstand exactly what the promises are, particularly in reference to FP&A.
Traditional FP&A systems are typically focused on one aspect of the management process. For example, setting a budget, collecting a forecast, or delivering results in the form of a report pack.
Over the past 20 years, there have been concerted efforts to combine these processes into a single system – after all, what’s the point of a budget if you can’t report against it or collect a forecast to see if year-end goals are going to be achieved?