The FP&A Trends Webinar will be held on February 23 from 10 AM to 11 AM PST to learn more about Planning for Uncertainty: The Building Blocks of Agile FP&A.

The FP&A Trends Webinar will be held on 25 March at 8:00 AM PDT (3:00 PM GMT) to discuss FP&A’s Role in Capital Planning: Getting Beyond the “Traditional”.

The increasing levels of business partnering and integration, new opportunities in functions outside finance are becoming possible. Having personally witnessed some successful cross-functional movements by FP&A professionals, I am a strong believer in the capability as well as the value of such movements. 

The Digital Middle Eastern FP&A Board will be held online on 17 February from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM GST to explore the subject of “Future of FP&A: Moving from Traditional Management Accounting to xP&A”.

This is our last issue in 2020. It has been quite a year for all of us, with many ups and downs. We have learnt a lot and have grown together.

COVID-19 and potentially other black swan have taught us the importance of recruiting & having great synergistic team, ensuring their welfare, making sure we assess the skill sets required for the changing world and leveraging technology to ensure best performance.

This is the summary article in a series of eight articles about the Operational Budget (OB) and its associated Operational Income Statement (OIS). These articles have described the significant enhancements the OB and OIS provide to the traditional budget and related financial processes and techniques.

Explaining and forecasting activity evolutions require to isolate correctly different factors (variables) that have an impact such as quantity, price, customer win/loss, competition. In the international environment, currencies and currency variances are one of the important variables.

It is commonly agreed that the traditional budgeting process is time-consuming and costly. It rarely focuses on strategy and adds little value. Although traditional budgets have evolved over the years, they can hardly meet the challenges of the modern economic and business environment. Join our global discussion on whether Beyond Budgeting is the best alternative. At the meeting, we will discuss whether it is realistic to abandon the budget and transform the whole process.

Is FP&A a generalist or a specialist? I believe it can be a mixture of both.