The inaugural Austin FP&A Board will gather in person on the 18th of October 2022 to debate the popular subject of global trends in modern Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). 

This paper covers the findings of our sixth annual FP&A Trends Survey, where we share the trends and challenges facing FP&A departments around the world. The survey was performed at a time where organisations were looking to recover from the pandemic when many were trying to figure out how to operate in a changed business world.

In this digest, we decided to collect content that best addresses these four themes: Scenario Management, Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A),  FP&A Team Roles, and Predictive Analytics.

Scenario management offers solutions to many of the disadvantages of traditional planning practices. It allows organisations to assess what lies beyond the ‘span of predictability’ and account for multiple possible futures.

The FP&A maturity journey requires the organisation to develop across all the facets: Leadership, Functional Skills, Business Partnership and Collaboration, Process, Data and Analytics, and Technology.

xP&A is more than moving the planning process outside of Finance. It completely transforms the organization's process, people and technology. Join the face-to-face Toronto FP&A Board and discuss the evolution of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) to extended planning and analysis (xP&A). 

Cash Flow analysis, forecast, and performance indicator reporting are a natural part of the work for an FP&A team. But outside the FP&A department, not all in the organisation understand how their activities and decisions affect the free cash flow.

xP&A is more than moving the planning process outside of Finance. It completely transforms the organization's process, people and technology. Join the face-to-face San Francisco FP&A Board and discuss the evolution of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) to extended planning and analysis (xP&A). 

xP&A is more than moving the planning process outside of Finance. It completely transforms the organization's process, people and technology. Join the face-to-face Seattle FP&A Board and discuss the evolution of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) to extended planning and analysis (xP&A). 

Statistics demonstrate the stark truth: that only 30% of change programs are successful, a proportion that has hardly changed since 1995. What can FP&A do to ensure we reverse this?