The FP&A Trends Webinar: Digitised FP&A Business Partnering: The Formula for Success
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FP&A Insights is a collection of useful case studies from leading international companies and thought leadership insights from FP&A experts. We aim to help you keep track of the best practices in modern FP&A, recognise changes in the ever-evolving world of financial planning and analysis and be well equipped to deal with them.
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By Karl Kern, Accountant / Lecturer / Writer
One of the realities that FP&A professionals need to realize is people tend to be too optimistic in their financial plans. People tend to expect higher revenues, lower expenses, or less time to recover the amounts of their investments. Psychologists label these expectations as optimism bias. As an accountant, I am guided by the conservatism principle.
By Larysa Melnychuk, CEO and Founder at FP&A Trends Group and International FP&A Board
In this recent interview with GTNews, Larysa Melnychuk sets out the fundamentals of FP&A, its vital role within the organisation, its international aspects and future FP&A trends to watch.
By Steve Morlidge, Business Forecasting thought leader, author of "Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting" and "The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting"
As we know a simple matter of spotting bias – systematic under or over forecasting – can get surprisingly tricky in practice if our actions are to be guided by scientific standards of evidence – which they need to be if we are actually going to improve matters.
By Steve Morlidge, Business Forecasting thought leader, author of "Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting" and "The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting"
The average level of MAPE for your forecast is 25%. So what? Is it good or bad? Difficult to say. If it is bad, what should you do? Improve…obviously. But how?
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