It is commonly agreed that the traditional budgeting process is time-consuming and costly. It rarely focuses on strategy and adds little value. Although traditional budgets have evolved over the years, they hardly meet the challenges of the modern economic and business environment. 

The Digital Swiss FP&A Board will be held on the 8th of February to discuss how to drive analytical change. Join us to learn more about FP&A Change Management from our senior panel of experts.

Data Storytelling is a discipline at the intersection of data analytics, psychology, and design. It allows you to convey data insights in the form of a compelling visual story. This short article explains why we need data storytelling, how to do it, and what we can expect at the end.

The FP&A Trends webinar will take place on 20 January 2022 to explore Top Trends Shaping FP&A in 2022 and Beyond.

This blog explains how FP&A can utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make a data-driven forecast of Account Receivables by examining historical invoices and payment data.

In this issue, we have collected content that explores Rolling Forecasting, its potential and practicalities. You will find two articles that break down the benefits of adopting Rolling Forecasting, along with one that explains how to mitigate potential challenges. We also included a short video with an insightful case study of Rolling Forecast delivered by the SBB Cargo CFO.

For FP&A, effective communication centres on 'storytelling' — the art of conveying numerical analysis as a cohesive narrative instead of a set of disjointed figures. It is hard to overstate the importance of storytelling. How FP&A professional presents their data determines how they are viewed

These uncertain times demand increasingly agile and analytical Financial Planning & Analysis. How do we build FP&A teams that succeed in the world of ‘unknown of unknowns’?

The CFO at Swiss Railway Freight Logistics (SBB Cargo AG) shares how his own company successfully implemented this agile alternative to traditional budgeting

Organizational agility often faces a considerable barrier: unaligned top-down and bottom-up planning processes. Why does this gap exist? How can we bridge it, and what role does technology play?