Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Centers of Excellence (CoEs) are an increasingly potent solution to a very timely challenge: How to improve the analytics and decision support capabilities of FP&A, when finance is under continued pressure to do more with less.

Two years since its creation, the FP&A Circle met for the 6th time in central London to hear about FP&A Change management.

The International FP&A Board held its 4th meeting in Singapore on the 17th July with a popular debate about "A New Age of Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB)".

The seventh meeting of the Zurich FP&A Board will take place on Thursday, 11th October 2018 to debate on the popular subject of FP&A Team Building.

The eighth meeting of the Geneva FP&A Board will take place on Tuesday, 9th October 2018 to debate on the popular subject of FP&A Team Building.

The 21st century has allowed us to communicate in a number of effective and innovative ways. Email, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Tinder, Hashtags, the list goes on and on in relation to forms of communication which are anything but the simple and most basic form of communication; conversation.

For many organizations, the strategy gap is a major obstacle that systematically prevents businesses from truly maximizing their Strategic Planning efforts and sustainably creating value for their organization. 

Join our next meeting in London to hear about "The Essentials of FP&A Analytical Transformation".

I have been thinking long and hard about what I need to do to stay relevant as a finance professional for the next ten, twenty, or thirty years, and after hours of research I want to share my thoughts and views on the skills future finance professionals will need in this ever-changing technology driven era.

A paradox which continues to puzzle me is how chief financial officers (CFOs) and controllers can be aware that their managerial accounting data is flawed and misleading, yet not take action to do anything about it.