The author Andrew Codd is the producer of the Strength in the Numbers Podcast which interviews real finance practitioners to break down their hard-won lessons and deconstruct their practical methods that work on the job and which you won't typically find in textbooks or exams so that we create more influential finance professionals worldwide who solve meaningful problems for their organisations and in return have fun, rewarding and successful careers in finance. FP&A teams have been growing in popularity because they have always known about one big thing that drove and accelerated value better than anything else, which other functions and teams sometimes forget. This is why organisations then, and even those today, need a FP&A team. So what is this one big thing?
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We held our third FP&A Board meeting in Frankfurt at the historic Frankfurt Skyper Villa. This time, the interactive discussion was about Best Practices in Rolling Forecast.
The Frankfurt FP&A Board launched on 13 October 2016 and was devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.
I was recently invited to join FP&A-Trends’ Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Committee by Larysa Melnychuk, managing director. The AI/ML committee is comprised of finance practitioners and data-management/science experts. This blog is based on the committee’s first two meetings in 2018.
The Dubai FP&A Board launched on 25 October 2016 at the InterContinental Dubai Marina. The first discussion was traditionally devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.
The first Brussels FP&A Board took place on 8 November 2016 at the Sofitel Le Louise. The discussion was traditionally devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.
The Launch of the Boston FP&A Board took place on 24 October 2017. The first discussion was traditionally devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.
Statistical approaches to forecasting can provide a framework for creating rolling budgets to which analytical skills and judgment can be applied in supporting a sound budgeting process.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now becoming a reality in Finance. AI is already impacting our everyday lives – through the adverts we see on Facebook, the shows selected for us on Netflix to the Google automated assistant being able to book meetings for us.
The concept of Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) is by no means new. It has been around for almost 50 years and has been used by many commercial and non-commercial organisations whose overriding objectives are to shed the unnecessary expenses.
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