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Improving Financial Reporting through Financial Planning

By Karl Kern, Accountant / Lecturer / Writer

January 18, 2018

Financial planning can help financial reporting develop insights into profitability, liquidity, and solvency through a chart of accounts. In other words, it helps to assess financial health.  The foundation in this effort is a chart of accounts.  The effectiveness of a chart of accounts can be achieved by the role of financial planning.

The FP&A Board meeting in New York on the 8th March 2018
January 17, 2018

The New York FP&A Board will gather on 8 March 2018 for the third time to debate on the hot subject of the FP&A Business Partnering.

The FP&A Board meeting in Boston on the 6th March 2018
January 17, 2018

Boston FP&A Board will gather on 6 March 2018 for the second time to debate on the hot subject of the FP&A Analytical Transformation. During the meeting, the FP&A Board will debate on the concept of Advanced Analytics for FP&A,  look closely into FP&A Analytics Maturity Model and discuss different stages of the  FP&A Analytical Transformation. 

FP&A and the Three-Headed Serpent

By Irina Steenbeek, Founder of 'Data Crossroads'

January 14, 2018

How far can you go with improving your FP&A practices? This article reveals relationship between three important  factors for any FP&A frameworks:  the quality of data, business planning and analytcal tools and techniques. 

 

The FP&A Evolution: A Reality Check

By Ernie Humphrey, CEO at Treasury Careers

January 12, 2018

Are FP&A teams empowered to deliver strategic value across the enterprise? I partnered with FP&A thought leaders Larysa Melnychuk, and James Myers to develop the FP&A Empowerment: The Evolution of Technology & Trends survey in part to find out if this perception is a reality. More than 300 global FP&A leaders took part at the survey.This article shares the key findings and conclusions.

London FP&A Board meeting on the 15th March 2018
January 5, 2018

The London FP&A Board will meet for the 19th time on 15th March 2018 to debate on Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) method.

How to Become an FP&A Professional

By Simone da Silva Collins, Senior Financial Analyst at Sony

Simone da Silva Collins is an FP&A professional working in Polycom, an industry leader in unified collaboration solutions.

She provides business partnering to various departments of Polycom in EMEA. She was previously the Group Finance Analyst supporting the Executive Team at Intec (now part of CSG), a provider of Business Support System (BSS) software and related services, primarily for the telecommunications industry. She also worked for Telewest (now part of Virgin Media) for over 7 years providing commercial and financial support to the Interconnect team.

Simone is originally from Macau in SE Asia. She gained her Masters at Manchester Business School. She has also recently achieved FP&A accreditation.

December 26, 2017

Have you thought of becoming an FP&A professional? When I was studying for my accounting qualification, I assumed I would become a traditional accountant. I did not know then how wrong this assumption would prove to be. This article gives an insight to my path in becoming an FP&A professional and short guide on how to become one.

The Dubai FP&A Board meeting on the 13th February 2018
December 22, 2017
Dubai FP&A Board will gather on 13 February 2018 for the third time to debate on the hot subject of the Advanced Analytics for modern Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). 
London FP&A Board: FP&A Analytics Maturity Model

By Larysa Melnychuk, CEO and Founder at FP&A Trends Group and International FP&A Board

December 20, 2017

The future is unpredictable, the current business environment is harsh, competition is fierce. In these times of change, modern FP&A is both exciting and challenging. It is exciting because it utilises better and more sophisticated tools than previously, can embrace automation and the incredible power of online collaboration. However, it is difficult because old finance management practices are still alive: they are inadequate for the modern world.

The Most Useless Visualisation Ever

By Randall Bolten, longtime Silicon Valley CFO, author of "Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You” and adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley Extension.

RANDALL BOLTEN grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of a CIA intelligence officer and a history professor. He is passionate about the importance of presenting financials and other numerical information in a cogent and effective way, and in his current life is the author of Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).

He is a seasoned financial executive, with many years directing the financial and other operations of high-technology companies. His experience includes nearly twenty years as a chief financial officer of software companies.

He has held the CFO position at public companies BroadVision and Phoenix Technologies, and at private companies including Arcot Systems, BioCAD, and Teknekron. Before his CFO positions, he held senior financial management positions at Oracle and Tandem Computers.

He received his AB from Princeton University, headed west to earn an MBA at Stanford University, and ended up staying in Silicon Valley. 

In addition to writing Painting with Numbers, he currently operates Lucidity, a consulting and executive coaching practice focused on organizing and presenting complex financial information. He divides his work time between Glenbrook, NV and Washington, DC, and maintains an office in Menlo Park, CA.

December 16, 2017

Let’s take a look at some of the most messed-up, incomprehensible recent examples of quantation. Not surprisingly, all are graphs. But some come from sources that definitely should know better.

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