In this edition of our newsletter, you'll find articles from industry experts on how to empower FP&A to fulfil its role as the voice of the business and bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap.

In this article, we explore why storytelling is, and has always been, an essential skill for FP&A and why it can be complicated to execute in practice.

In this video, Kevwe Ijatomi shares his experience using automation to drive value creation and different approaches to it.

FP&A expert has to help management make the right decisions. The expert must be able to perform a rigorous logical analysis of the consequences of the decision. This is why an FP&A specialist trained and experienced in visual cause-effect analysis can stand out from the crowd.

This article highlights the case study discussed at the AI/ML FP&A Committee Meeting #18. We invited Scott Campbell, Head of Center of Excellence - Finance & FP&A, to be a speaker, and he shared a robust case study from Philips on Digital Finance.

The 200^th landmark meeting organized by the FP&A Trends Group occurred on March 16^th in New York. 25 FP&A leaders met to share their experiences and ideas about how to approach building the best-in-class FP&A teams.

At the FP&A Trends webinar on April 4th, an experienced and international panel of speakers explored the answer and discussed the winning formula for FP&A Storytelling.

At the FP&A Trends webinar on March 28th, we discovered at how predictive technology can be used to make planning a faster, more accurate and agile process, that spans the entire organisation. 

In this paper, we lay out the key elements of FP&A storytelling and provide practical guidance to help you improve your storytelling skills.

In this series of blogs, the author will be providing a comprehensive approach to the design, construction, roll-out and maintenance of a modern analytic driver-based model. He also outlines several necessary requirements for building this model successfully.