Today’s finance department is a weaved together mix of shared service centres, centres of excellence, outsourcing arrangements and the retained business partnering functions such as FP&A.

While we are all busy with the budgeting season, it is a good idea to let yourself get distracted from time to time to avoid burnouts. In this FP&A Trends digest issue, we would like to share with you several FP&A-related insights.

This article applies to all private sector firms, not just Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Private Equity (PE) firms. The technique described here can also be used to rank the profitability of five financial planning alternatives to the traditional budget.

The Second Digital Middle Eastern FP&A Board will be held online on November 25 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM GST. 

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

As long as there are humans involved in making a forecast, the forecast will be biased. But there are some steps to make a forecast unbiased. This article will look into the unbiased forecasting framework and will explore the methods where humans have minimal influence on the outcome.

On the 6th of October, I had the pleasure of hosting the Second Digital Pan-Asian FP&A Board. We had six insightful presentations that are summarized in this article.

The Third Digital Pan-Asian FP&A Board will be held online on the 24 November from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM SGT to learn about FP&A Digital Transformation: Moving to the Leading Stage.

This article focuses on why there is a risk of too much focus on the profit and loss (P&L) or income statement and too little focus on the Balance Sheet among FP&A practitioners.

On November 18 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM GMT we will discuss Empowering FP&A to Bridge the Strategy Gap Once and for All.