The concept of business partnering is more than two decades old and till now employees, at all levels, have not fully understood the fundamental point of Business Partnering roles. Even the companies which consider themselves ahead of the curve on implementing business partnering, have only thought of the functional and operational elements of business partnering role.

Last week, the International FP&A Board held two meetings in Switzerland.

The International FP&A Board opened its 20th chapter in Tokyo, Japan, on the 12th of July.

On the 19th of July, we held the 4th FP&A Board in Kuala Lumpur. Like before, the Kuala Lumpur FP&A Board debate was very dynamic and insightful thanks to the participants.

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.