Is planning a routine annual exercise or a flexible and dynamic FP&A process that drives value and supports decision-making under uncertainty? How to achieve the latter?
Unstable times are putting pressure on our planning process: we need to re-forecast more often to make timely and informed decisions, while at the same time we need to expand our forecasting horizons and look ahead. How can we achieve this?
Many organisations these days have three separate plans: a strategic plan created by executives, a finance plan created by the FP&A team and a range of detailed operational plans created by individual departments. These plans have different owners, different terminology and, more importantly, different underlying assumptions. How to overcome this by working in silos and bringing these plans together?
This article provides an overview of the topics and cases presented and discussed by the experts at the webinar “Cash Flow Planning - Why the Traditional Profit-Driven Mindset Needs to Be Rethought”, as well as the results of our polling questions.
This article provides an overview of the topics and cases presented and discussed by the expert panellists at the webinar “From Traditional to Better and Beyond Budgeting”, as well as the results of our polling questions.
Data Storytelling is a discipline at the intersection of data analytics, psychology, and design. It allows you to convey data insights in the form of a compelling visual story. This short article explains why we need data storytelling, how to do it, and what we can expect at the end.
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How can automation maximize the value of FP&A in your business?
The FP&A Trends webinar addressed key questions related to automation in FP&A. Where to start? What technology to use? How does the approach to automation change depending on the size of the organisation and the industry in which it operates?
This article provides an overview of the topics and cases presented and discussed by the expert panellists in the "Maximizing the Value of FP&A Through Automation" webinar, as well as the results of our polling questions.
The recent FP&A Trends webinar looked at the main challenges FP&A professionals are facing these days.
This article provides an overview of the topics and cases presented and discussed by the expert panellists at the webinar “Top Five FP&A Challenges and How to Address Them”, as well as the results of our polling questions.
The traditional budgeting process is short-term focused, causes unnecessary control and bureaucracy and results in a conflict of interest. For most present-day organisations, Traditional Budgeting is no longer fit for the task.
The FP&A maturity journey requires the organisation to develop across all the facets: Leadership, Functional Skills, Business Partnership and Collaboration, Process, Data and Analytics, and Technology.