Integrated Business Planning is a complex alignment of people, processes, and technologies that can provide immense value creation for the business and end-user efficiency when brought together under a single unified framework.

​The long-standing narrative of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM/CPM) has been squarely focused on the effort to steer organisations away from spreadsheets by embracing Enterprise Performance Management suites (i.e. platforms).

Scenario Planning is a common topic among FP&A professionals and the software and services vendors who support them. However, the mechanics of scenario modelling is the layer that diehard modellers want to understand and operate within. This article explores the most common techniques used for financial scenario modelling.

In this article, Michael Huthwaite shares three steps to consider when implementing ZBB. Modern ZBB is not a slash-and-burn exercise. It is about applying the optimal cost structure to the right parts of the business in the right stages of maturity. It is about maintaining and growing revenue while cutting out areas with excess spending.

The tax system, whether it be corporate or personal, is often a complex system that is based on rules-based accounting, which often has little to do with the actual health and well-being of the taxable entity.  

Building an analytically led organisation, focused on bending the cost curve and reinvesting those savings into opportunities that are earlier on the product lifecycle are key steps to growing and sustaining shareholder value.  No company will continue to grow forever.  In order to stick around, you’ll need to one day start to bend the cost curve.