Over the twenty years that I have worked with Beyond Budgeting, I have asked tens of thousands of managers and Finance people all over the world about how satisfied they are with the budgeting process.
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The next step of the Australian FP&A Board led us to meet in Melbourne with about 30 FP&A practitioners attending and debating about challenges, trends and best-practices in Financial Planning and Analysis. We would like to share some of the insights from the event in short summarized form. The topic of this board was “FP&A Analytical Transformation”.
"Is your forecasting more judgemental than analytical?" The FP&A Board members were trying to answer this question at the third Brussels session. 30 senior finance practitioners debated on how Rolling Forecast (RF) can be more value-adding.
The International FP&A Board held its third FP&A Board meeting in Boston on the 12 June. It was another interesting FP&A Business Partnering (BP) debate with 25 senior finance practitioners sharing their professional experience with each other.
Usually I am fairly rational and do not let my personal emotions interfere with how I interact with others. However, as the readers of my blogs and articles may have detected, my more recent writings increasingly reflect my frustrations with old school accountants.
Another successful FP&A Board was held in Sydney on 21st August 2018, where more than 50 FP&A practitioners attended and discussed their challenges and trends in Financial Planning and Analysis.
Welcome to this blog series, where I look forward to share with you some of my reflections on what I believe are very important issues for most organisations today.
Are your KPIs, Scoreboards and other metrics safe from the Simpson's paradox?
Why, according to 70% of UK CFOs, is FP&A the hardest Finance & Accounting role for them to fill?
This is just one of the many questions the well-known FP&A thought leader Larysa Melnychuk answers as well as covering a number of relevant other areas on the podcast with Andrew Codd.
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