With the festive season approaching, I would like to extend my warmest wishes to you and your loved ones. May the future bring you peace, joy, and well-deserved rest, and may the year ahead be filled with opportunities and success.

In this digest, you’ll find a selection of FP&A Trends Papers and the FP&A Maturity Model Assessment. I chose them because they get underneath the surface — past the templates — and into the foundations that genuinely drive FP&A transformation.

In the new Digest issue, we explore how human insight and AI capability are being fused into a new standard of business partnering — one that is faster, sharper, and more strategic than ever.

In this digest issue, we bring cash flow back to the centre of planning — not as an afterthought, but as the system that keeps every decision alive.

This digest edition brings together stories of that balance: structural clarity, centralised design, and AI that guards quality while the close keeps moving — all echoing the vision of the Financial Close Playbook, which redefines what “fast and accurate” really means in modern finance.

To everyone who has walked with us through these 150 issues — thank you for shaping a global dialogue on what FP&A can become. This issue brings together new research, tools, and insights to help FP&A move from reflection to reinvention.