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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.

"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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Brexometer for FP&A Professionals: February Reading
February 12, 2019
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis

By David West, Head of New Business Development at AcoBloom International®

After the excitement of the past two months, when the Brexometer has been jumping up and down like a mouse on a trampoline, this month sees a more stable situation. The reading has risen by just two basis points from 4.95 in December, to 4.97, a small rise, but still below the parity level of 5.00.

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Applying Analytics to Storytelling
February 11, 2019
FP&A Tags:
FP&A Analytics, Financial Planning and Analysis, Data Visualisation, FP&A Storytelling, FP&A Skills

By John Sanchez, Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer and Author

According to Google's Chief Economist, Dr. Hal Varian, "The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it— that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades."

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