In this article, the author is trying to capture a few areas that might need a renewed focus from FP&A professionals in 2024. Focusing on these aspects will help FP&A leaders contribute to profitability and cash flow and truly enhance shareholders' expectations.

The author of this article focuses on the top 3 trends that will define the future of leadership and outlines the skills we have to develop to become influential leaders.

As I walk around various offices or even in social gatherings, I find many conversations about artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA), and big data. And logically, then, the discussion quite often rolls into how our life will change due to the availability of data, how each of our actions is turning into data, how future consumer behaviour thus can be predicted etc. Thus people quite often discuss predictive analysis (PA), and we hear stories about its use in elections to predict voters' behaviour, customer behaviour, payment risks, etc.

Change was the other name of 2019 and the area of corporate finance was no different to experience massive fast-paced change. We saw many topics which were “great discussions” in the past now being implemented... these changes are going to stay and will intensify further in the year of 2020 & beyond.