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Integrated FP&A is Key in These Uncertain Times

By Steve Benham, Co-Founder and Director at Profit& Ltd

Steve Benham is Co-Founder and Director at Profit&.

Steve's passion is to help finance departments become genuine business partners, transforming them from corporate historians into fortune tellers, so that CFOs become relied upon for insights into the effect of decisions on future profitability. Steve qualified as an accountant with PwC and spent 15 years of his early career in CFO roles, before forging a career in cost management consulting, spanning over 20 years.

Steve has implemented large cost management projects and developed deep expertise in key sectors including Airlines, Utilities and Manufacturing. Prior to establishing Profit& in 2016, Steve was a Director in PwC Finance Consulting, and Cost Management Practice Lead in Vantage Performance Solutions. Steve also led Consulting Practices for Cost Management in technology firms including SAP, Business Objects and ALG Software.

Anyone working in the FP&A space knows intermittent disruptions such as the COVID-19 epidemic are the just tip of the iceberg because, at some level or another, every business day is a ‘VUCA’ day and if you invest in building FP&A processes that prove their worth every working day then you’ll be better able to weather a crisis.  

The Digital UK & France FP&A Board: FP&A of the Future: Adapting to the "New Normal"

The Digital UK & France FP&A Board will be held online on the 14 October 2020 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM BST. Join our experienced and international panel of experts to learn how to adapt FP&A to the "New Normal".

Are Accountants and FP&A Professionals Homo Accounticus?

By Gary Cokins,  Founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management

Just to have some fun I will take the position that some accountants and FP&A specialists are primitive Homo Accounticus. In the evolutionary ladder they can become bean growers. They can add value beyond just reporting to assisting their organization to gain insights and make better decisions.

FP&A Business Partnering – What It Is and What It Is Not

By Bartosz Obojski, Director Global Finance Planning and Analysis at Esko

True Business Partnering starts when the FP&A community fully owns the numbers, completely agrees with them, and publicly endorses them.

The Questioning Mindset: Its Importance for FP&A

By Amrish Shah, CFO at Metabolic

Change is inevitable. And a process of change – a story – starts always with a question. Why do FP&A professionals need to ask more effective questions? Where should you start?

Guardian Glass Case Study: FP&A Transformation

In this video, we dive deeper into a case study featured by Alex Beired, Global Director of FP&A at Guardian Industries, where Alex covers several questions about driver-based planning and FP&A transformation.

FP&A Trends Digest: Issue #18

To make it easier for you to find relevant FP&A insights, we launched the FP&A Trends E-Book series last year. And now I am happy to share with you our second e-book, which considers the concept of FP&A business partnering and consolidates advice on becoming a great FP&A business partner.

The Second Digital Pan-Asian FP&A Board: "Building Winning FP&A Teams for the "New Normal"

The Second Digital Pan-Asian FP&A Board will be held online on the 6 October from 4-30 pm to 6-00 pm SGT. Join our experienced and international panel of experts to learn how to Build Winning FP&A Teams for the "New Normal".

FP&A Trends E-Book: FP&A Business Partnering. Issue #2

The second FP&A Trends E-Book is devoted to FP&A business partnering and contains articles from 10 practitioners and thought leaders. 

Advanced Analytics Support for BBI’s Principles and Processes

By Alan Dybvig, Managing Partner at Dybvig Consulting

Alan Dybvig

Alan Dybvig is the managing partner of Dybvig Consulting. His intellectual property was implemented to create the operational budget (OB). His business experience includes 32+ years with IBM as a director and senior manager, primarily in supply chain and sales/marketing assignments, and then four years with a Warburg Pincus-financed supply chain startup where the idea for the OB germinated. He has had five articles published in the Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, two articles in the Institute of Management Accountants’ Strategic Finance and one each in the Institute for Business Forecasting's blog and INFORMS’ magazine, "OR/MS Today".

Alan Dybvig's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-dybvig-0a374ois/

This article focuses on how the Operational Budget’s advanced analytics supports seven of the Beyond Budgeting Institute’s twelve principles and management processes.

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