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Economics Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting 
Fpanda Club
JANUARY 23, 2025
As FP&A professional, how often do you feel that you do something you shouldnt? FP&A is an evolving function that falls into the intersection of finance, operations and strategy aimed at driving better decision-making trough insightful analysis, forecasting and goal setting. Of course, they matter.
Fpanda Club
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis. The emerging FP&A practice steps out of the shadow of other finance functions becoming a standalone entity which involves its own mission, goals, organization, processes, tools and skills.
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Next-Level Fraud Prevention: Strategies for Today’s Threat Landscape
Outsourcing Vs. In-House: The Ultimate Battle For Better Collections
Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting
The Silent Crisis: Why Finance Lags in Digital Transformation and How to Accelerate AI Adoption
The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience
Future CFO
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Technology adoption in FP&A is set to accelerate, driven by macroeconomic uncertainty and ongoing disruptions, said Gartner recently. Making FP&A more predictive and agile will offer enormous benefits and help to make the business more responsive to changing economic conditions and new opportunities.”.
Next-Level Fraud Prevention: Strategies for Today’s Threat Landscape
Outsourcing Vs. In-House: The Ultimate Battle For Better Collections
Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting
The Silent Crisis: Why Finance Lags in Digital Transformation and How to Accelerate AI Adoption
The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience
Centage
MAY 23, 2022
The current economic circumstances haven’t just resulted in financial uncertainty for millions of Americans. With rolling forecasts, businesses can gain better insight while aligning their sales and production goals with what’s actually happening from a financial perspective. What’s a Rolling Forecast?
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Future CFO
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Among these are the changes that were faced in the financial planning and analysis function. Data in the cloud also aided Vena Energy’s FP&A team in analysing data remotely. Chew believes this technology contributed significantly to the success of their FP&A operations.
Centage
MAY 31, 2022
Just as content is king in the world of marketing, when it comes to financial decision-making, data is everything. If you want to outsell the competition, then upgrading your financial planning and analysis (FP&A) efforts is of the utmost importance.
Centage
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Between pandemic insecurities, a supply chain crisis, labor shortages, and the growing threat of recession, companies that rely on traditional planning and forecasting may find themselves struggling to stay competitive. To stay agile and accurate, businesses need to utilize automated financial tools that allow for rolling forecasts.
Jedox Finance
JANUARY 3, 2023
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is evolving into a whole new area of influence with cross-departmental and cross-dimensional impact. Accurate, frequent, and integrated business planning is crucial as geopolitical tensions, worldwide inflation, and supply chain disruption continue to reshape the global economy.
Centage
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
With proper budgeting and forecasting, just about any business can protect itself against recession. Failing to reevaluate assumptions in today’s uncertain economic environment can have serious consequences. Revisit Your Forecast Assumptions. Remove the Plugs From Assumptions. Ensure Your Base Case Is Conservative.
Centage
MARCH 7, 2023
At Centage, we’re committed to equipping finance teams to meet this challenge by providing automated, cloud FP&A software solutions that make it easy to perform the detailed, bottom-up budgeting and sophisticated scenario analysis needed to spot risks and opportunities early. So how are CFOs shifting their goals for 2023?
E78 Partners
MARCH 3, 2025
While overall 2025 economic conditions have been positive, tariffs, persistent interest rates and geo-political instability are creating uncertainty. Investors have a heightened appetite for businesses with proven financial fundamentals and clear paths to profitability. Produce comprehensive board-ready financial reports.
Centage
DECEMBER 21, 2022
The Value of Stress Testing Your Financial Plan. As we approach the end of the fiscal year and begin a new one, business leaders have an overriding concern: How accurate are the assumptions we made when we created our plan? This is especially concerning as we look ahead to another challenging year of economic uncertainty.
Future CFO
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
It went to note that FP&A and reporting teams have been stretched as the demand for rapid and effective business insight from finance has proved critical for many organisations which have been placed under acute stress. Crisis-born FP&A best practice. “Life challenges us, so that we become enlightened. Siang Leng Tay.
Centage
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Modern FP&A professionals are charged with providing strategic, data-driven advice that helps leadership make sound decisions in the near and long-term future. Finance teams need to answer specific questions, such as: What will the business look like given the economic climate? Data-Driven Planning Process. Watch Demo.
Centage
JANUARY 17, 2023
Between a volatile stock market, high interest rates, supply chain issues, inflation, and a possible recession, having a solid financial planning process in place is an important piece of sustaining your business through challenging times. Today’s business leaders are facing unprecedented uncertainty. Did manufacturing costs increase?
The Finance Weekly
JUNE 22, 2022
However, by implementing FP&A automation, their customers will be provided a more in-depth analysis that will set them up for any scenario that can occur in the coming months. To top it all off, the current market downturn and continued inflation is putting additional strains on companies’ forecasting and planning efforts.
Jedox Finance
OCTOBER 8, 2020
In this blog, he explains why scenario planning is now more important than ever and, most importantly, what it can and can’t do. . I explained that it’s not about FP&A trying to predict the future. It’s not the role of FP&A to predict the plethora of possible causes for a change in the business landscape.
Centage
JULY 19, 2022
With a top-down approach, senior leadership sets the financial constraints, and departments create their budgets accordingly. Business budgeting is a crucial factor with the ability to impact a business’ long-term success or failure. So, employees can focus on doing their jobs. Of course, top-down budgeting does have its drawbacks.
Centage
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
The current economic climate is causing profound challenges for business owners across industries. With that said, it’s important to gain a greater understanding of your profitability which requires more analysis than a financial statement and a balance sheet. Don’t be tempted to stop at only one or two of them.
Centage
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
The start of a new year is always a time for planning. As a FP&A professional, all eyes are on you to help plan the year ahead, step-by-careful-step, with enough lead time to avoid pitfalls and seize unexpected opportunities. For instance, 70% of SMBs have created scenario planning to prepare for the future.
Centage
MARCH 14, 2023
The ongoing economic uncertainty continues to pose a serious challenge for CEOs and financial leaders. If companies want to succeed, they need to craft their personnel planning with care, ensuring their choices hold up to close scrutiny from upper management and investors.
The Finance Weekly
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
A study by the University of Baltimore and Excel-based FP&A company, , DataRails , lays out the full economic costs of businesses sticking with manually prepared financial reports. billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. .
Centage
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
It’s no secret that we’re living in a time of significant economic upheaval. In light of the current volatility, with a probable recession just around the corner, it’s more important than ever that companies take steps to protect their financial futures, and that means utilizing data to its best advantage. Key Financial Reports to Run.
Centage
APRIL 28, 2022
Back in 2019, Centage made waves when it announced the availability of Planning Maestro , the first-ever FP&A platform designed specifically for the mid-size market. Up until the release of Planning Maestro, only enterprise-sized companies could afford the expense of automated and intelligent cloud-based FP&A technologies.
Centage
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Your business can use historical and recent business performance with the recurrent business cycle and seasonal trends to predict your organization’s financial performance in various scenarios. There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty.
Centage
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Why Accurate and Granular or Detailed Financial Reporting is Imperative During Times of Volatility. Business moves at a fast clip, whether during times of economic expansion or times of uncertainty like we are experiencing today. Enter Modern Financial Reporting. The Trouble with Using Spreadsheets.
Cube Software
APRIL 29, 2024
What does FP&A for real estate look like? When it comes to the real estate sector, financial planning and analysis (FP&A) plays a crucial role in guiding strategic decisions.
Jedox Finance
APRIL 24, 2022
In this post we will take a closer look at FP&A – what the meaning of FP&A is, where you should start and how your company can benefit from it. From different use cases to the solution for current challenges – learn how the finance department can take advantage of Financial Planning and Analysis.
Spreadym
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) candidates are professionals who specialize in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis within an organization. They play a critical role in helping companies make informed financial decisions and allocate resources effectively.
Jedox Finance
JULY 18, 2019
” is the clear message from Chief Financial Officers. To do that we must address the mindset of the entire FP&A team. Operating within your organization’s framework, as we discussed in the previous posts in this blog series , will frame how your FP&A team carries out this mandate.
Collectiv
AUGUST 18, 2022
To succeed in a highly competitive business landscape, enterprises need a robust financial planning and forecasting strategy. Why Planning and Forecasting are Critical for Enterprises. Financial planning and forecasting go far beyond just day-to-day budgeting.
CFO Share
JUNE 11, 2024
Accurate financial forecasting is crucial for small businesses, but developing and updating forecasts can be time-consuming, frustrating, and ultimately inaccurate. Precise forecasts provide the roadmap for future growth, but most small companies spin their wheels developing and maintaining forecasts.
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Future CFO
OCTOBER 29, 2023
Considering this, financial planning and analysis (FP&A) has been proven to become useful for effective strategy management and risk mitigation. FP&A allows lenders to embrace rolling forecasts, promoting more agility as organisations make use of the availability of more timely data.
Centage
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Forecasting errors are an inevitable part of the budgeting process. Quickly identifying forecast errors in your budget is not a sign of failure, but an opportunity for improvement. Forecast error: Definition and Types In the simplest terms, forecast errors are the difference between predicted values and actual outcomes.
Spreadym
MAY 10, 2023
What-if analysis is a technique used in financial planning and decision-making business software to assess the potential outcomes of different scenarios or changes in variables. It involves evaluating the impact of various "what-if" situations on financial flows projections, business performance measures, or outcomes.
Future CFO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Unlike a typical financial downturn, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic has been far more difficult to predict. The virus continues to ravage the global population, effect changes in consumer behavior, unearth workforce planning challenges, precipitate demand drops, and create supply chain shocks across the business world.
Centage
APRIL 4, 2023
The current economic climate is causing profound challenges for business owners across industries. In fact, a 2022 TransUnion Consumer Pulse Study revealed that 48 percent of consumers were concerned about their ability to fulfill financial requirements. Three Ways to Increase Profit Margins: 1.
The Finance Weekly
DECEMBER 22, 2022
The humble spreadsheet remains an essential, if not critical, component of many financial operations. Although CFOs are optimistic about organizational growth in 2023, they see “cost control as their most urgent imperative” in the face of economic uncertainty, according to the , Grant Thorton 2022 Q3 CFO Survey.
Centage
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Not only is the world still grappling with the effects of the ongoing COVID pandemic, but high interest rates and elevated inflation have many concerned that an economic downturn is coming. For best results, companies should take steps to shore up cash forecasts and variables. Trend 1: Every business fails for the same reason.
Centage
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Between pandemic insecurities, a supply chain crisis, labor shortages, and the growing threat of recession, companies that rely on traditional planning and forecasting may find themselves struggling to stay competitive. Frequency of FP&A process should increase . How detailed are your models, drivers, and assumptions?
Focus CFO
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Some business owners downplay the complexity of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and mistakenly task their accounting team with this crucial function, or hope their CPA firm can be of help. Let’s examine how an outsourced, fractional CFO can improve FP&A: Improving Data. .” – Lao Tzu.
Centage
JUNE 21, 2022
For most businesses, the current economic circumstances – and looking at what may lay ahead – haven’t just resulted in financial uncertainty, it’s also brought to light the inherent challenges with using conventional budgeting methodologies to track and anticipate future business performance. The answer?
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E78 Partners
JULY 19, 2023
In today’s ever-evolving business landscape, characterized by economic uncertainty and rapid changes, staying ahead of the curve has become crucial for organizations aiming to achieve sustainable success. This entails developing a well-crafted plan and budget for 2024, which serves as a critical foundation for success.
Future CFO
JANUARY 12, 2024
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals can rely less on clunky, manual labor and more on strategic thinking and CFOs are becoming more confident in data accuracy and have shifted their focus to strategy. There are three ways AI works with FP&A teams to improve the financial planning process: 1.
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