This Insights Paper explores AI’s impact on FP&A, highlighting its benefits, implementation strategies, and future implications. It also describes the role of FP&A Business Partnering in driving strategic value and presents the Business Partnering Framework that enables teams to shift from traditional finance roles into strategic business partners.

Many organisations still struggle with data quality and timeliness, with 35% citing these issues as the biggest barriers to data-driven decision-making in the 2024 FP&A Trends Survey. This paper explores how to master data and analytics in FP&A, deploy analytics technology, and foster a culture of analytics-informed decisions.

This year’s FP&A Trends Survey, which has taken responses from 383 finance practitioners across diverse industries and regions, looks in depth at the ways FP&A supports data-led decision-making in the current dynamic landscape as well as the future developments that need to be implemented.

Organisations that master Integrated FP&A can turn threats into competitive advantages, transforming disruptions into growth opportunities. However, many struggle to build this capability. This Insights Paper offers a framework for implementing Integrated FP&A.