According to a McKinsey study, during the pandemic, about 50 percent of the companies in their research, "the outperformers", took advantage of the crisis, significantly increasing performance. At the same time, 50 percent saw no meaningful change. This article discusses what factors lead companies to outperformance and how Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) can help.
The recent FP&A Board meeting brought together some strong leaders in the FP&A field to discuss key lessons learned from the pandemic and how the future is evolving for the FP&A function. The article describes the main insights of the FP&A Board.
The Face-to-Face Chicago FP&A Board was held on June 7, 2022, to discuss the key lessons learned from the pandemic.
The Face-to-Face Boston FP&A Board was held on June 21 to discuss the key lessons learned from the pandemic.
The recent FP&A Trends webinar looked at the main challenges FP&A professionals are facing these days.
This article provides an overview of the topics and cases presented and discussed by the expert panellists at the webinar “Top Five FP&A Challenges and How to Address Them”, as well as the results of our polling questions.
According to the 2021 FP&A Trends Survey, only 12.5% of organisations spend 40% of their time on value-adding activities. Ironically, the feedback I am getting from my stakeholders is that our Business Partners have never needed us more than they need us today. Clearly, as an FP&A community, we all need to be taking action to empower, execute and become laser-focused on moving up the dial from 12.5% to ensure we can support and guide our Business Partners and show up as our best version.