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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.

Stay tuned for more blogs and articles from great authors.

Could FP&A Help Your Company Survive a Downturn?
February 20, 2019
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, FP&A Skills, What is FP&A

By James Myers, Global Finance Executive and Finance Transformation Consultant

Companies reducing the size of their Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) finance teams are cutting valuable resources in the misbelief that is not a priority. That’s untrue. So what’s the role of FP&A in today’s company anyway?

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Business Planning, Data and Technology: a Ticking Clockwork
February 19, 2019
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Data-Driven FP&A

By Irina Steenbeek, Founder of 'Data Crossroads'

Very often financial and business planning professional ask the same question: which software do I need to improve my business and financial planning and analysis capabilities? The answer is not straightforward.

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"When a Measure Become a Target, It Ceases to Be a Good Measure"
February 14, 2019
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis

By Christian Fournier, former Head of Finance Europe at Orange Business Services

Here are two laws that should question a few paradigms in company management and finance. Applied to company management those two laws bring few questions.

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From Bean Counter to Bean Grower – the Sequel
February 13, 2019
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, What is FP&A

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

 

This article is my sequel to my previously published “Can Accountants Grow the Beans Too?” article posted this past January, 2019.

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