In this digest, we decided to collect content that best addresses these four themes: Scenario Management, Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A),  FP&A Team Roles, and Predictive Analytics.

This issue contains our recent white paper on FP&A Storytelling; a guide to fixing common Data Visualisation errors; an article about the increasing importance of storytelling to the finance role; a breakdown of the practical steps involved in good storytelling; and a video explaining how to optimise FP&A Dashboards.

The theme for this digest is FP&A Transformation – the adoption of an automated, fact-based approach to planning that facilitates faster, more agile decision-making. FP&A Transformation is about more than just the application of technology, though; it redefines processes and collaboration across many functions.

Today, the FP&A Business Partner is a Change Agent that knows the business and challenges the status quo to improve. That is why, for this issue, we have chosen to share content delving further into FP&A Business Partnering. As the supply chain is one of the key functions for FP&A Business Partners to collaborate with, you will also find a guide to managing supply chain variability.

Integrated FP&A allows organisations to harmonise their top-down and bottom-up planning processes across strategic, financial and operational levels. In this digest, you will find out exactly how Integrated FP&A achieves these goals.

In this issue, you will find a CPM trend report; an article on emerging planning tools; a breakdown of the key success factors for the FP&A system implementation; a guide for improving user adoption; and a video case study on the use of predictive analytics and machine learning at Microsoft.