The 21st London FP&A Board will take place on the 20th of November 2018 to debate on the subject of Building FP&A of the Future.
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There is no lack of discussion about the skill sets that FP&A professionals need throughout their careers to be successful; even a cursory search on the Internet would provide a wealth of resources. Broadly speaking, those articles focus on four areas of skills:
One of the biggest transformations in the finance departments recently, has been the shift for an Accountant to move from a compliance and governance based individual, to an insight driven value added business partner. In the past, accountants could get by doing monthly reporting, statutory accounts and tax returns and justify their role within an organisation.
By Andrew Codd, Founder and Lead Producer The Strength In The Numbers Show
The author Andrew Codd is the producer of the Strength in the Numbers Podcast which interviews real finance practitioners to break down their hard-won lessons and deconstruct their practical methods that work on the job and which you won't typically find in textbooks or exams so that we create more influential finance professionals worldwide who solve meaningful problems for their organisations and in return have fun, rewarding and successful careers in finance. FP&A teams have been growing in popularity because they have always known about one big thing that drove and accelerated value better than anything else, which other functions and teams sometimes forget. This is why organisations then, and even those today, need a FP&A team. So what is this one big thing?
We held our third FP&A Board meeting in Frankfurt at the historic Frankfurt Skyper Villa. This time, the interactive discussion was about Best Practices in Rolling Forecast.
The Frankfurt FP&A Board launched on 13 October 2016 and was devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.
I was recently invited to join FP&A-Trends’ Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Committee by Larysa Melnychuk, managing director. The AI/ML committee is comprised of finance practitioners and data-management/science experts. This blog is based on the committee’s first two meetings in 2018.
The Dubai FP&A Board launched on 25 October 2016 at the InterContinental Dubai Marina. The first discussion was traditionally devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.
The first Brussels FP&A Board took place on 8 November 2016 at the Sofitel Le Louise. The discussion was traditionally devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.
The Launch of the Boston FP&A Board took place on 24 October 2017. The first discussion was traditionally devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.
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