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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.

According to the FP&A Trends Survey 2021, only 12.5% of organisations spend more than 40% of their time on high-value activities. How can we overcome this problem? What is the role of the modern FP&A Business Partner?

Best practices from mature technology businesses have stable recurring Rolling Forecasts based on momentum, executive buy-in and a solid understanding of the drivers in both revenues and costs. And those forecasts have defined processes to ensure the right level of risk is mitigated with the right action plans to drive success.  However, start-ups have a different focus: getting their product to market and ensuring there is a fit, or there is no business

The last two years have disrupted our professional and personal lives in unprecedented ways, and FP&A is facing now many new challenges. At this webinar, we discussed how best to confront new circumstances in the short and long term. 

Zero Based Budget has seen a resurgence over the last few years, especially during the pandemic. As organisations feel the effect of the pandemic, they are turning more and more to using Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) to ensure survival.

Starting a business and sustaining one are two very different things that are both essential in their own way. Your accounting team handles the current data of your business while Financial Planning and Analysis enable your foresight and wisdom for what can be done ahead.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said that "the arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice." The origin of this sentence can be traced to Theodore Parker who was a Unitarian minister and prominent American Transcendentalist born in 1810. Parker called for the abolition of slavery in the USA in an 1853 collection of “Ten Sermons of Religion”.

So, what does this have to do with the mission of the Profitability Center of Excellence (PACE)? Plenty.

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.

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