Following on from the success of the 21^st London FP&A Board, we had the pleasure of attending the 8^th London FP&A Circle which shares the latest professional trends and developments with the UK FP&A community, open exclusively by invitation to senior and mid-level finance practitioners.

This year FP&A Trends Group is planning a number of compelling webinars about best practices in modern FP&A. The first one in 2019 will be devoted to an interesting subject — "FP&A Transformation through Effective Organisational Structure".

The International FP&A Board held a meeting in Dubai on 6^th February in the wonderful H-Hotel in Sheikh Zayed Road. The topic of the discussion was “Rolling Forecast: 7 Factors for Success”.

Advanced analytics is fast becoming a core enterprise competency. Organizations slow to develop it risk falling behind competitors. Companies need quick and reliable insight into the current and future performance of their processes as well as the evolving needs of customers. Advanced analytics is no longer the purview of companies like Google or Amazon. It’s a critical competitive differentiator.

The purpose of a balance sheet is to describe the resources that a business has and how those resources were acquired.  This purpose is seen as an end result of financial planning but this purpose can be seen as a starting point of financial planning. 

In this blog we explain how companies can efficiently and accurately calculate their personnel requirements.

Companies reducing the size of their Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) finance teams are cutting valuable resources in the misbelief that is not a priority. That’s untrue. So what’s the role of FP&A in today’s company anyway?

The ninth meeting of the Zurich FP&A Board will take place on Thursday,  23rd of May 2019 to debate about the Power of FP&A Predictive Analytics. 

The seventh meeting of the Amsterdam FP&A Board will take place on the 9th of May 2019 to debate on the popular subject of Zero-Based Budgeting. 

The fifth meeting of the Brussels FP&A Board will take place on Tuesday, 7th of May 2019.