Dubai FP&A Board Feedback Form - 13 February 2025
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The Seattle FP&A Board was established on the 10th of April 2018 as an educational and networking platform for the local FP&A community.
Since then, 130 members, representing leading global and local companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, The Boeing Company, T-Mobile, Cushman & Wakefield, Adobe, LinkedIn, Siemens, Visa, Vmware, and many others joined this think-tank. Together, we explore the best way to address the challenges in the FP&A community in the 21st century. During the meetings, we guide the development and promotion of best practices in global FP&A, identify and support new trends, skillsets and innovations.
The speakers from Wicresoft and T-Mobile presented their insights and case studies.
The International FP&A Board will open its 17th global chapter in Seattle on 10 April 2018. The first professional debate will be devoted to the global trends in modern Financial Planning and Analytics (FP&A).
The Board was established in London, UK in 2013 and now successfully operates in 11 countries of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the USA. This is a leading professional think-tank that gathers expertise of many senior finance practitioners. Its mission is to identify and support new global trends, skill sets and thought leadership in modern corporate financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
The FP&A Board meetings are exclusive to senior finance practitioners in active employment (CFO, FD and Head of Finance level) at large local and international organisations. They are complimentary, vendor-agnostic and by invitation only.
At this stage, we are inviting only 25 members to join the Seattle FP&A Board.
On 25th January 2018, the London FP&A Circle gathered for the fifth time to discuss what new challenges and trends are there in the FP&A field. In one room, 60 finance practitioners exchanged their expertise. They represented internationally acknowledged companies, such as Experian, Imperial Tobacco, Sony Pictures Television, Thomas Cook and many others.
By Daniele Tedesco, CEO at Apliqo and MD DACH Region at Cubewise
As the year slowly draws to a close, CFOs also start their annual haggling over costly budget items. Various challenges force companies to dismantle old, cost-inefficient structures. In looking for new budgeting options, a well-known but controversial method is moving back into the limelight: zero-based budgeting (ZBB).
The San Francisco FP&A Board was established on the 5th of April 2018 as an educational and networking platform for the local FP&A community.
Since then, 161 members, representing leading global and local companies such as Google, HP, Amazon, Visa, Flex, Genentech, Siemens, Gensler, Kaiser Permanent, Hitachi, Uber, Adobe, SeatGeek, and many others joined this think-tank. Together, we explore the best way to address the challenges in the FP&A community in the 21st century.
During the meetings, we guide the development and promotion of best practices in global FP&A, identify and support new trends, skillsets and innovations. The speakers from Mobileum, Autodesk, Synaptics, Roche Pharmaceuticals, UCSF Medical Center, Gensler, and others presented their insights and case studies.
The International FP&A Board will open its 16th global chapter in San Francisco on 5 April 2018. The first professional debate will be devoted to the global trends in modern Financial Planning and Analytics (FP&A).
The Board was established in London, UK in 2013 and now successfully operates in 11 countries of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the USA. This is a leading professional think-tank that gathers expertise of many senior finance practitioners. Its mission is to identify and support new global trends, skill sets and thought leadership in modern corporate financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
The FP&A Board meetings are exclusive to senior finance practitioners in active employment (CFO, FD and Head of Finance level) at large local and international organisations. They are complimentary, vendor-agnostic and by invitation only.
At this stage, we are inviting only 25 members to join the SF FP&A Board.
Please fill in the registration form below:
By Gary Cokins, Founder and CEO: Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC
I like to think of the various EPM/CPM methods as an analogy of musical instruments in an orchestra. An orchestra’s conductor seeks balance and guides the symphony composer’s fluctuations in harmony, rhythm and tone.
By Randall Bolten, longtime Silicon Valley CFO, author of "Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You” and adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley Extension.
RANDALL BOLTEN grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of a CIA intelligence officer and a history professor. He is passionate about the importance of presenting financials and other numerical information in a cogent and effective way, and in his current life is the author of Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
He is a seasoned financial executive, with many years directing the financial and other operations of high-technology companies. His experience includes nearly twenty years as a chief financial officer of software companies.
He has held the CFO position at public companies BroadVision and Phoenix Technologies, and at private companies including Arcot Systems, BioCAD, and Teknekron. Before his CFO positions, he held senior financial management positions at Oracle and Tandem Computers.
He received his AB from Princeton University, headed west to earn an MBA at Stanford University, and ended up staying in Silicon Valley.
In addition to writing Painting with Numbers, he currently operates Lucidity, a consulting and executive coaching practice focused on organizing and presenting complex financial information. He divides his work time between Glenbrook, NV and Washington, DC, and maintains an office in Menlo Park, CA.
You will be considered a great FP&A professional only if you can communicate clearly, effectively, and eloquently. The most basic of those choices is whether a use a table or a graph. To make that choice intelligently, it’s critical that you answer four questions that are described in this article.
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