Inside this article are the bread and butter ratios of statement analysis. Some gauge effective use of assets. Some report the financial condition of the company. It is with these the ratios (relationships) where it all begins. What I am outlying here the very core of corporate finance statement analysis.
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Many will still argue that target setting works. “What gets measured gets done”. Yes, targets do work. That is actually the problem. Managers hitting their target is, however, no guarantee whatsoever that this was their best possible performance, given the circumstances.
The future of IBP will be to plan across the whole value chain. A final step in IBP scope will be to understand and incorporate constraints to create a global view.
The cost of complexity can be significant – upwards of 5% of sales in global organizations. Forward-thinking FP&A leaders can play a significant role in realizing this value by leveraging technology innovations that support fully integrated P&PM processes.
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