As the appetite for detailed business insights is growing on data that is accumulating, we face the need for a stronger, true cooperation between FP&A and IT, to support faster, more accurate business decisions.

This pandemic has uncovered several shortcomings in our way of planning, managing, and organizing societies and businesses. Now that the future looks predictably uncertain, there is a dire need to understand, react to, and learn from it and other unexpected events. 

In this article, we will look at why Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) tends not to be involved in Cash Flow and why that can be dangerous and short-sighted.

We will also look at what are some of the key elements of a good Cash Flow-focused mindset that FP&A can develop.

The FP&A Trends Webinar will be held online on December 3 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM PST to learn more about How xP&A Should be the Baseline.

The Second Pan-Australian FP&A Board will be held online on December 8 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM AEDT. 

Join our experienced and international panel of experts to learn how to Build Winning FP&A Teams for the "New Normal".

With the help of modern technology, we will try to make this digital meeting as interactive as possible by incorporating polling questions, Q&A sessions, and a survey. 

Join the Second Digital Swiss FP&A Board on December 10 at 5 pm CET to learn how to move from Traditional to Better and Beyond Budgeting.

At this digital event, senior professionals from Citi, Motesque, Government of Ontario, SAP and Michael Page shared their insights and experience on how FP&A has been dealing with the new challenges.

Most FP&A departments are on a journey to a place where they can cope with today’s ‘new normal’.  From our experience, organisations that are in the Leading state of the FP&A Analytics Maturity Model exhibit several characteristics.

This series of articles focuses on blowing up this stereotype by demonstrating how Finance in general and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) in particular can change its language, use the right part of the brain to throw light on the most important business drivers, revive figures and make them tell a story that is easy to perceive and take action on. 

There are so many great stories to be told in FP&A! Due to technological advances, FP&A professionals now have access to advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualisation tools.