The Brisbane FP&A Board was launched on the 16^th of July 2019.

Senior FP&A leaders from Rio Tinto, Boeing, Coca-Cola Amatil, Great Southern Bank, Cleanaway Waste Management, and other companies attended the events to guide the development and promotion of better practices in global FP&A, identify, and support new trends, skillsets and innovations.

The speaker from City Beach Australia presented their insights.

The Perth FP&A Board will meet on the 11th July 2019 for the second time. The professional debate will be devoted to the subject of FP&A Analytical Transformation.

A financial plan is a product used for guiding people’s actions toward the accumulation of wealth.  As a product a financial plan is created from a variety of sources.  One source used for creating a financial plan is accounting.

Scenario planning is an important technique for a flexible and dynamic FP&A that enhances the decision-making process. In this webinar, Rhodri de Lloyd, FP&A Manager at GoCompare​.com, talks about his company journey towards on-demand scenario planning and also shares some lessons learnt.

In our earlier blogs we have discussed the role of data in your profession, your main benefits from proper managing of data, as well your main concerns about data. In this one I would like to give you a few practical tips on how to ensure getting the ‘right’ data.

The modern FP&A takes an exciting path of transformation to meet the demands of modern business. Changes in the FP&A framework are driven by transformations of analytical procedures in general. At the leading stage of the transformation, all planning processes will be fully integrated, allowing for a multidimensional advanced analytical process. The automation will release a lot of time for strategic analytical work and enhance the decision-making process.

For almost six years now, FP&A Trends Group has been supporting developments and promotion of the best practices in FP&A. In 2019, we would like to continue spreading the word. Today, it is my pleasure to present to you the first issue of FP&A Trends Digest.

In May 2019, the International FP&A Board held the 5th Brussels meeting where 32 senior finance practitioners shared their ideas about what is a new age of Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB).

The 7th Amsterdam FP&A Board was held to discuss and answer questions such as: What is Zero-based budgeting? Who is using it in their day to day practice, and to what extent? What are the benefits and challenges in implementing ZBB?

The democratization of technologies is underway. Tools like machine learning (ML), which were confined to universities, hedge funds or investment banks just until a decade ago, are now finding their way into industry-wide applications. The finance function is set to reap the benefits of this democratization wave.