Most FP&A departments are on a journey to a place where they can cope with today’s ‘new normal’. From our experience, organisations that are in the Leading state of the FP&A Analytics Maturity Model exhibit several characteristics.
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This series of articles focuses on blowing up this stereotype by demonstrating how Finance in general and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) in particular can change its language, use the right part of the brain to throw light on the most important business drivers, revive figures and make them tell a story that is easy to perceive and take action on.
There are so many great stories to be told in FP&A! Due to technological advances, FP&A professionals now have access to advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualisation tools.
Today’s finance department is a weaved together mix of shared service centres, centres of excellence, outsourcing arrangements and the retained business partnering functions such as FP&A.
While we are all busy with the budgeting season, it is a good idea to let yourself get distracted from time to time to avoid burnouts. In this FP&A Trends digest issue, we would like to share with you several FP&A-related insights.
Why does an organisation need Integrated FP&A? It can bring benefits such as speed, agility and accuracy. Agile FP&A departments can provide senior stakeholders with relevant and accurate insights in a shorter period of time. And time is money, as we all know.
This article applies to all private sector firms, not just Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Private Equity (PE) firms. The technique described here can also be used to rank the profitability of five financial planning alternatives to the traditional budget.
The Second Digital Middle Eastern FP&A Board will be held online on November 25 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM GST.
Join our experienced and international panel of experts to learn how to Build Winning FP&A Teams for the "New Normal".
As long as there are humans involved in making a forecast, the forecast will be biased. But there are some steps to make a forecast unbiased. This article will look into the unbiased forecasting framework and will explore the methods where humans have minimal influence on the outcome.
On the 6th of October, I had the pleasure of hosting the Second Digital Pan-Asian FP&A Board. We had six insightful presentations that are summarized in this article.
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