What are the latest FP&A  trends in Australia?  Recently, Larysa Melnychuk, the founder and MD of The International FP&A Board has opened new chapters in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.

This article gives insights on the latest FP&A trends and challenges:  how they evolve globally and how they are perceived locally, on Australian continent.

The goal of financial management of maximizing shareholder wealth can be assessed through a variety of measurements.  What this variety of measurements may not assess is potential problems in relationships between businesses and stakeholders.  One way to assess potential problems with these relationships is to look for fractures. This article describes how to identify fractures through FP&A within three elements on the balance sheet.

Too often software evaluations are restricted to features and functions. It’s like evaluating a car by looking at individual components but without seeing if they all work together to meet your needs. So next time you are tempted to view a demonstration, make sure you’re prepared with questions that will help you to assess the true business value of the solution. 

There are so many ways to graph information, and many of them are not just labor-intensive, but cognitively ineffective. But even if you’ve chosen one of the more effective ways of graphing information, also remember that graphs work best when you’re trying to make a single, critically important point.