This month I had the unique opportunity to join 25 finance professionals of the San Francisco FP&A Board to have a robust dialogue on how to build winning FP&A teams.
FP&A Insights
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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In this article, we will look at how driver-based advanced analytics has overcome the problems with the current budgeting process. This is the first article in a series that is devoted to next generation budgeting; specifically, the operational income statement (OIS) and its associated operational budget (OB).
When we talk about performance measurement, KPIs are a common tool. It can be a financial measure or an operational measure. However, in recent years, KPIs seem to have fallen out of favour because it fails as a useful indicator of business performance. Should we abandon KPI? This article looks at the importance of designing and defining appropriate KPIs in performance measurement.
The fifth Seattle FP&A Board, which was sponsored by SAP and Robert Half, was devoted to the subject of FP&A Team Building. As FP&A leaders work towards a more effective business partnership, they require effective teams to achieve this goal. But what comprises effective teams? And what roles must people play?