he Zurich FP&A Board launched on 20 September 2016 and was devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.

FP&A Trends Group is happy to announce the continuation of our global webinar project. We will finish the year with a very exciting subject — "Artificial Intelligence for FP&A". The 21st century FP&A is ready for complete analytical transformation.

The third Geneva FP&A Board took place on 7 February 2017 to discuss FP&A Analytical Transformation.

On 29th November, FP&A Trends Group held the Singapore FP&A Board Meeting. Over forty senior finance practitioners discussed the challenges, trends and shared best practices in the FP&A field.

There’s a lot of buzz nowadays with regards to digitalization and how we all need to be ready for significant changes in our working environment and businesses.

The third London FP&A Circle gathered on 7 March 2016 to discuss Why Driver-Based Planning Matters for modern FP&A.

Ever notice how the personalities and dispositions of animals often resemble humans'? An organisation’s pursuit of adopting FP&A involves personalities of all types. How are they like the creatures that populate our planet? Here is a zoology of analogous types of employees that you might recognise. 

On 4 October 2016, the second meeting of the London FP&A Circle gathered together in the Holborn office of Michael Page to discuss A New Era for FP&A Profession.

Financial Planning is a process of thinking. One of the end results from this process is a product called a budget. A budget is a product that expresses thoughts. As a product a budget must be created and its creation must have a foundation. The foundation for creating a budget is answers to three basic questions.

Managing enterprise productivity is an essential capability for value-focused Finance executives.  It provides the basis for superior strategy execution, cost and profitability management, by purging organizations of one of the primary causes of value erosion: functional silos.