Many believe that one of the future roles of Finance, and FP&A, specifically, will be to provide real-time, data-driven decision support for the business. This will transform Finance from a mere ‘cost center’ to a ‘profit center’ function, raising its importance within the organization.

This is the second part of a three-part series that focuses on the business value that data science & analytics can provide to enterprises.
 

Strategic investment decision-making involves the process of identifying, evaluating and selecting among projects that are likely to have significant impact on the organization competitive advantage. More specifically, the decision will influence what the organization does, where it does and how it does it.

The Amsterdam FP&A Board will meet on 6 November 2018 for the sixth time. The professional debate will be devoted to the subject of FP&A Team Building. 

Over the twenty years that I have worked with Beyond Budgeting, I have asked tens of thousands of managers and Finance people all over the world about how satisfied they are with the budgeting process.

The next step of the Australian FP&A Board led us to meet in Melbourne with about 30 FP&A practitioners attending and debating about challenges, trends and best-practices in Financial Planning and Analysis.  We would like to share some of the insights from the event in short summarized form. The topic of this board was “FP&A Analytical Transformation”.

"Is your forecasting more judgemental than analytical?" The FP&A Board members were trying to answer this question at the third Brussels session. 30 senior finance practitioners debated on how Rolling Forecast (RF) can be more value-adding.

The International FP&A Board held its third FP&A Board meeting in Boston on the 12 June. It was another interesting FP&A Business Partnering (BP) debate with 25 senior finance practitioners sharing their professional experience with each other.

Usually I am fairly rational and do not let my personal emotions interfere with how I interact with others. However, as the readers of my blogs and articles may have detected, my more recent writings increasingly reflect my frustrations with old school accountants.

​Another successful FP&A Board was held in Sydney on 21st August 2018, where more than 50 FP&A practitioners attended and discussed their challenges and trends in Financial Planning and Analysis.