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FP&A Articles is a collection of useful case studies from leading international companies and thought leadership insights from FP&A experts. We aim to help you keep track of the best practices in modern FP&A, recognise changes in the ever-evolving world of financial planning and analysis and be well equipped to deal with them.

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    The Many FP&A Rooms of the Organization Mansion
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    By Gary Cokins,  Founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management

    Gary Cokins (Cornell University BS IE/OR, 1971; Northwestern University Kellogg MBA 1974) is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and enterprise performance and risk management systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina at www.garycokins.com .

    He began his career in industry with a Fortune 100 company in CFO and operations roles. He then worked 15 years in consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS. From 1997 until recently Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics and intelligence software.

    His two most recent books Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap (ISBN 0-471-57690-5) and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics (ISBN 978-0-470-44998-1). Mr. Cokins can be contacted at gcokins@garycokins.com .

    LinkedIn account: www.linkedin.com/pub/gary-cokins/0/15a/949

     

    Business schools tend to divide their curriculum between hard quantitative-oriented courses, such as operations management

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    The Rolling Forecasting Trap
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    Bjarte Bogsnes

    By Bjarte Bogsnes, Founder of Bogsnes Advisory

    Beyond Budgeting has now been around for twenty years. More and more companies across the

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    Mergers & Executions: How Companies Can Avoid Value Destroying Acquisitions
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    By Emmanuel Jibodu, Finance Analytics @ Shred-it​

    The article is titled Mergers & Executions. It’s not a typo. You might think it

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    Data to Action — Drive Business with Technologies
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    Takeshi-Murakami

    By Takeshi Murakami, Group Controller at Microsoft

    4-5 years ago in Microsoft, Cloud business was a small portion of the overall business

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    What’s The Difference Between Integrated Business Planning and Integrated Financial Planning?
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    By Dean Sorensen, Founder of IBP Collaborative

    Integrated Financial Planning (IFP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) mean different things to different people. Primarily

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    Using a Statement of Cash Flows for Financial Planning
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    By Karl Kern, Accountant / Lecturer / Writer

    The purpose of a statement of cash flows is to describe how businesses receive and

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