The FP&A Trends Webinar: Mastering Analytical Transformation with FP&A Trends Maturity Model
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FP&A Insights 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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By Karl Kern, Accountant / Lecturer / Writer
The course of managerial accounting dedicates up to two chapters on the subject of budgeting. Going into these types of budgets may be helpful for students but I don’t want this article to be a repeat of what appears in textbooks. I want this article to focus on the process of financial planning and how it can be used in your company’s selling function.
By John Sanchez, Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer and Author
FP&A professionals work in an environment that requires communicating with a wide variety of people. This requires us to be adaptable to communicate effectively with all these different audiences. There are some things we can do to ensure we are consistently and reliably on point by tailoring our communication to each audience.
By Ben Wann, Founder of The Numbers Guys, and Benjamin Stoter, Contributing Member of The Numbers Guys
In short, the finance business partner is an experienced, well-rounded, and dynamic professional who can step into any organization and quite quickly deliver long-term value.It is important that we identify and apply the term Finance Business Partner in the hiring process to clearly communicate and align our business needs and expectations of the candidates.
By Belal El-Shaf'ei, Board Advisor at PRO BusinessWare
Traditional budgeting process normally starts with forecasting sales levels, cost of goods sold then all operation expenses until reaching to the proforma income statement without understanding how changes in costs (both variable and fixed) & sales will affect profits in future periods. But modern FP&A professionals started to implement CVP analysis during the annual profit plan to study the interaction of sales with variable & fixed costs on the profits received.
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