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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.

Thinking Broadly vs Narrowly about a Budget

By Karl Kern, Accountant / Lecturer / Writer

A budget uses numbers to express thoughts which can be done broadly, narrowly, or both. How thoughts are expressed is important in a budget. If a budget is not impressed properly, it becomes irrelevant in many ways.

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