Today, software as a service (SaaS) businesses are popular with investors, lenders and customers. Many software companies have transmuted their pricing models from perpetual license models to subscription models. Finance business partners are important in subscription environments. In this article, you will find sample questions an FP&A business partner can help answer to accelerate the growth trajectory in a SaaS enterprise.

The second Houston FP&A Board gathered at the times where there are a lot of Black Swan events happening around the globe and the concept of FP&A Analytical Transformation is extremely relevant.

The third Copenhagen FP&A Board will take place on the 22 September 2020 to debate the popular subject of Building Winning FP&A Teams for the "New Normal".

The 12th meeting of the  Geneva FP&A Board will take place on the 12 May 2020 to debate the subject of "Building FP&A of the Future".

Would you rather be liked or respected? It is a question we often get asked in interviews or from our direct managers about our own style or when difficult decisions need to be made. 

This month I had the unique opportunity to join 25 finance professionals of the San Francisco FP&A Board to have a robust dialogue on how to build winning FP&A teams. 

In this article, we will look at how driver-based advanced analytics has overcome the problems with the current budgeting process. This is the first article in a series that is devoted to next generation budgeting; specifically, the operational income statement (OIS) and its associated operational budget (OB).

When we talk about performance measurement, KPIs are a common tool.  It can be a financial measure or an operational measure. However, in recent years, KPIs seem to have fallen out of favour because it fails as a useful indicator of business performance. Should we abandon KPI? This article looks at the importance of designing and defining appropriate KPIs in performance measurement.

The fifth Seattle FP&A Board, which was sponsored by SAP and Robert Half, was devoted to the subject of FP&A Team Building.  As FP&A leaders work towards a more effective business partnership, they require effective teams to achieve this goal.  But what comprises effective teams? And what roles must people play?

At the sixth meeting of the AI/ML FP&A Committee, Saul Mateos, Finance Director at Coca Cola (previously Senior FP&A Director at Egencia), shared Egencia's journey of using Artificial Intelligence for FP&A.