The ability to respond to rapid change and uncertainty requires agility and resilience. One of the biggest barriers for organizations to increase agility comes from unaligned top-down and bottom-up planning processes, and FP&A plays a key role in balancing these two models. By successfully combining them, organizations can increase the quality of their planning results.

This FP&A Trends digest will share advice on how you can improve your financial modelling skills and also on how your FP&A can make their forecasts more influential. Furthermore, we would like to invite you to an engaging online conference that will take place in mid-June and will be dedicated to the new trends and innovations happening in FP&A.

How can we plan and forecast in an uncertain environment? One of the current challenges for FP&A professionals is that traditional planning methods are no longer sufficient for this turbulent period. This is where FP&A Predictive Planning and Scenario Planning come into play.

The Digital German & French FP&A Board will be held on June 17. Join us at 5:00 PM CEST to learn how to move From Traditional to Better and Beyond Budgeting.

Although there have been a large number of publications on the topic of strategy, only a small number of business leaders are confident that they can achieve 80% or more of their strategic goals. Why is this the case and how do we tackle this gap?

Companies nowadays are looking at using specialised FP&A solutions to help improve the accuracy and efficiency of the forecasting process. Depending on the maturity of the FP&A function, we can roughly divide companies into three levels of maturity in terms of their use of specialised FP&A solutions.

Now, more than ever, the FP&A profession stands to propel itself forward as the premier business partner for Commercial and Operational teams. While FP&A content trending today may center around technological advances, the focus herein will instead shift to the bedrock principle that defines the FP&A profession: striking the proper balance between analytical depth and high-level storytelling. 

The modern FP&A takes an exciting path of transformation to meet the demands of modern business operating in a highly uncertain environment. Changes in the FP&A framework are mainly driven by an increasing amount of data, innovations in technology and analytical methods. What will it involve getting to the leading stage of FP&A Maturity?
 

As technology keeps advancing, digitalising the FP&A function and integrating it across the organization is not out of the reach for any company. The successful companies of tomorrow will thrive by implementing data-driven and digital planning processes.

The Digital North American FP&A Board will be held on the 8th of June 2021 at 11:00 AM PDT to discuss The Art and Science of Digitized FP&A Business Partnering.