The 6th meeting of the Dubai FP&A Board took place on November 20, 2019 at “The H Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai”. The weather was stormy and rainy but still 30 Senior Finance and Business professionals participated at the meeting. The Dubai FP&A Board was proudly sponsored by Michael Page, Jedox, and Azdan.
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This article focuses on how to ensure that your team adopts business partnering because long-term it is not feasible to maintain quality of the work if you are trying to do it all by yourself. And quality is what makes partnering stick.
Businesses exist in order to improve the well-being of others. One approach businesses use for achieving this goal is the concept of people/process/technology. In businesses the element of technology is the responsibility of information technology (IT) departments; information technology is responsible for the acquisition, maintenance, and enhancement of technology. How can information technology improve its ability to acquire, maintain, and enhance technology? An answer is financial planning, thinking about how businesses can accumulate wealth.
The Accountagility Index (AAX) rose 23 basis points in November to 4.99, from 4.76 in October. The Index records UK political and economic health in a score out of ten. Any score below 5.00 is negative, so we remain in the red rather than in the black this month, but by the slenderest of margins.