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 James Myers, Global Finance Executive and FInance Transformation Consultant
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) play a pivotal role between Strategy, Business and Data: a business partner advisor, helping to form a pathway that navigates an uncertain future, but in reality, the value created is very difficult to measure.
By Karl Kern, Accountant / Lecturer / Writer
Cost Accounting provides insight into the relationship between financial sacrifices and financial benefits. There are a number of elements within this discipline that support this relationship. FP&A stimulates thinking about activities that create sacrifices in order to create benefits. These activities develop a framework for understanding what organizations are doing and where they are going. The question is: which element of Cost Accounting develops a meaningful framework that links activities to understanding?
By Gary Cokins, Founder and CEO: Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC
Please forgive me for my persistent rant and criticism against accountants who budget poorly or continue to calculate the substantial and growing high indirect and shared costs originating from resource expenses such as salaries, supplies, power, information technologies, and travel. I cannot seem to hold back my frustration.
By Karl Kern, Accountant / Lecturer / Writer
This article addresses technology in FP&A. In his book "THE INNOVATORS" Walter Isaacson describes two ways of utilizing technology. One way is artificial intelligence, machines thinking on their own. Another way is augmented intelligence, people using machines to help organize information.
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