How a finance function organises their teams will determine whether or not the teams can be successful. In recent years, an interesting phenomenon is emerging — companies are being more global, but at the same time centralising a lot of their functions.

FP&A professionals all over the world are looking for ways to accommodate a significant amount of uncertainty into their planning and forecasting processes, whilst also attempting to improve the decision-making routine. Therefore we chose to focus this FP&A Trends digest issue on FP&A transformation.

This FP&A Trends webinar is dedicated to the power of Connected and Collaborative planning. Learn more about key concepts, steps for implementation and 5 success factors.

As the appetite for detailed business insights is growing on data that is accumulating, we face the need for a stronger, true cooperation between FP&A and IT, to support faster, more accurate business decisions.

This pandemic has uncovered several shortcomings in our way of planning, managing, and organizing societies and businesses. Now that the future looks predictably uncertain, there is a dire need to understand, react to, and learn from it and other unexpected events. 

In this article, we will look at why Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) tends not to be involved in Cash Flow and why that can be dangerous and short-sighted.

We will also look at what are some of the key elements of a good Cash Flow-focused mindset that FP&A can develop.

The FP&A Trends Webinar will be held online on December 3 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM PST to learn more about How xP&A Should be the Baseline.

The Second Pan-Australian FP&A Board will be held online on December 8 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM AEDT. 

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

With the help of modern technology, we will try to make this digital meeting as interactive as possible by incorporating polling questions, Q&A sessions, and a survey. 

Join the Second Digital Swiss FP&A Board on December 10 at 5 pm CET to learn how to move from Traditional to Better and Beyond Budgeting.

At this digital event, senior professionals from Citi, Motesque, Government of Ontario, SAP and Michael Page shared their insights and experience on how FP&A has been dealing with the new challenges.