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.

So what exactly can we expect to see in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) in the coming years? This digest aims to provide some answers to that question. It is devoted to the top trends shaping FP&A in 2022 and beyond. Below, you will find an eBook and a short video presentation identifying the key factors changing FP&A today, along with three articles delving deeper into them.

Agile FP&A allows organisations to adjust quickly to market changes while effectively managing and maintaining shareholder value. In this newsletter, you’ll find a variety of articles covering the concept, its main benefits, and practical examples of implementation.

This digest includes a Gartner report on the role of xP&A in operational planning; an FP&A Trends white paper on Extended Planning and Analysis and business transformation; an article exploring how xP&A can liberate us from silo thinking; and a video case study of its implementation in a major company.