FP&A Articles

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 Most Useful Graph Ever
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    By Randall Bolten, longtime Silicon Valley CFO, author of "Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You” and adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley Extension.

    Well-designed incentive compensation plans – especially sales commission plans – are an incredibly powerful way
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    Demand Forecasting is Mostly About Data Exploration
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    By Hans Levenbach, PhD, CPDF author of Change & Chance Embraced

    As most forecasting methods require data, a forecaster analyzes the availability of data from both
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    FP&A – Just for Budget Time?
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    By Simone da Silva Collins, Senior Financial Analyst at Sony

    Simone da Silva Collins is an FP&A professional working in The Warranty Group, one of the world's premier global providers of warranty solutions and related benefits.

    She provides business partnering and assists in development of MI to operations heads at TWG. Prior to joining TWG, she was the Finance Manager at Polycom (taken private by private equity firm Siris Capital Group) and provides business partner support to various departments in EMEA. She was previously the Group Finance Analyst supporting the Executive Team at Intec (now part of CSG), a provider of Business Support System (BSS) software and related services, primarily for the telecommunications industry. She also worked for Telewest (now part of Virgin Media) for over 7 years providing commercial and financial support to the Interconnect team.

    Simone is originally from Macau in SE Asia. She gained her Masters at Manchester Business School. In addition to being ACCA qualified, Simon has also achieved FP&A accreditation.

    FP&A does not work in the finance silo of providing backward looking analysis of what
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    How to Manage Forecasting Risk?
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    By John Stretch,  MD at Stretch Business Training

    In an uncertain and fast-changing world, line managers need to be made aware of the
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    Around the World, FP&A Goes by Many Names
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    Although it is becoming commonplace to refer to financial planning and analysis as FP&A, this
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    Forecasting: Should the Mean APE Rule the Accuracy Planet?
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    By Hans Levenbach, PhD, CPDF author of Change & Chance Embraced

    Planners and managers in supply chain organizations are accustomed to using the Mean Absolute Percentage
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