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Everything You Wanted to Know about FP&A Best Practices

Fpanda Club

The finance function now plays a crucial role in many organizations supporting and driving effective business decisions, and this is exactly the responsibility of FP&A standing at the crossroads of finance, strategy and technology to leverage data and generate insights. Many finance and FP&A leaders are now facing transformational projects trying to find the future shape of the FP&A organization.

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Adopt rolling forecasts and roll with the punches

Anaplan

Most people who labor through months-long annual financial planning cycles would admit the process is broken. It’s time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inflexible. Moreover, we now realize these rigid annual budgeting cycles don’t adapt well to today’s fast-moving environment. We simply can’t foresee a crisis or seize new opportunities 12 months in advance.

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Aswath Damodaran on the COVID Crucible: A Play in Three Acts

CFA Institute

"In most crises, young companies suffer at the expense of old companies, risk-on companies get hurt more than risk-off companies," Aswath Damodaran said. "This crisis seems to have flipped the script.".

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Birkenstock’s Billions: Getting Comfortable with Business Valuations

Creative CFP

In an office-based work environment, smart shoes are essential. However, as the recent pandemic has shifted meetings from board rooms to video calls the need for formal attire has become limited to clothing seen from the waist up. This, in turn, has caused the demand for comfortable shoes to climb through the roof, while the need for formal footwear, like stiletto heels, has dropped sharply – pun intended.

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The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

Finance isn’t just about the numbers. It’s about the people behind them. In a world of constant disruption, resilient finance teams aren’t just operationally efficient. They are adaptable, engaged, and deeply connected to a strong organizational culture. Success lies at the intersection of people, culture, adaptability, and resilience. Finance leaders who master this balance will build teams that thrive through uncertainty and drive long-term business impact.

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Two months. Two new projects.

Castle Corporate Finance

Time certainly does fly when you’re having fun – Castle’s new CF Manager, Alex Nursey, reflects on his first couple of months in his new role. “It’s been two months since I joined the team at Castle. Whilst it certainly would have been easy to feel slightly overwhelmed starting remotely in the midst of a pandemic, my experience has fortunately been quite the opposite – I already feel like part of the furniture.

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How Alpha Hides in GAAP Accounting: Return on Equity

CFA Institute

You can find significant alpha in the mechanics that drive GAAP accounting.

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Birkenstock’s Billions: Getting Comfortable with Business Valuations

Creative CFP

In an office-based work environment, smart shoes are essential. However, as the recent pandemic has shifted meetings from board rooms to video calls the need for formal attire has become limited to clothing seen from the waist up. This, in turn, has caused the demand for comfortable shoes to climb through the roof, while the need for formal footwear, like stiletto heels, has dropped sharply - pun intended.

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Jedox 2021.1: OData Hub for Salesforce

Jedox Finance

With version 2021.1, Jedox has advanced its cloud data service, making it even faster for sales teams to access live Jedox data for forecasting and account planning in Salesforce. In this blog post, we'll cover how different sales roles can benefit from real-time forecasting and integrated planning through the seamless integration of Jedox EPM and Salesforce CRM.

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Five ways for finance leaders to leverage AI to manage volatility

Anaplan

The pace at which finance leaders must change course and re-forecast is increasing dramatically. Global events, competitive tactics, marketplace dynamics, and geopolitical moves create an influx of information and drivers that impact organizational tactics and decisions. Given so much uncertainty, it’s not possible to plan for just one or two future scenarios.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Book Review: Too Smart for Our Own Good

CFA Institute

Too Smart for Our Own Good’ s core thesis should be taken to heart not only by investment professionals but by all investors.

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How China’s tighter fintech regulation poses mixed implications

Future CFO

China’s slew of tighter and broader regulations on fintech activities will curb systemic risk from under-regulated fintech growth but will also pose a mixed credit impact across a wide group of participants, said Moody’s recently. “China’s fintech industry participants will have to adjust to tighter regulations that will have a broader and stronger oversight, leading to a period of moderating fintech growth and investment in the sector,” said Yan Li, a Moody’s Assistant Vice President and Analys

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How to use data to become effective finance leaders

Future CFO

Geoff Soon (pictured), Managing Director, South Asia at Snowflake shares with FutureCFO audiences how data and data analytics can help CFOs become more effective leaders. Geoff Soon, Managing Director, South Asia, Snowflake. FutureCFO: How do data visualisation tools help CFOs with real-time performance data? Geoff Soon (GS): Modern-day CFOs are expected to lead their organisations forward with analytics-guided decision-making, more efficient processes enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), a

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Finance likely to invest in four emerging technologies

Future CFO

Finance functions are likely to invest in four emerging technologies, according to a Gartner survey of 167 finance organisations conducted last November. While cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the most favoured choice, other likely areas for investment include advanced data analytics, data storage, and robotic process automation (RPA), according to the advisory firm.

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Smarter Card Solutions: Meeting the Challenges of Mid-Market Travel & Expense

Our 2025 Center Travel Survey is clear: as corporate travel increases, so does corporate credit cards distribution, and a rise in off-platform travel booking. This 61% rise causes various challenges: compliance, spend control, reporting problems, and a lack of visibility across organizations. To evolve with the ever-changing needs of travelers, decision-makers need a better solution.

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How Long Does Competitive Advantage Last? A Sector Analysis

CFA Institute

Does a firm’s competitive advantage tend to endure longer in some sectors than others?

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People moves: Wilton Resources in Singapore, Novotech Health Holdings

Future CFO

Singapore-listed Wilton Resources Corporation Limited recently named Chia Wei Yang as Group Financial Controller. Aged 33, Chia will be responsible for providing leadership and direction for all aspects of financial planning, internal control compliance, financial reporting matter of the company and its groups of companies, and communication of financial performance and forecast of the group’s performance to the board of directors and the Singapore Exchange.

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Finance leaders: AI to perform many reporting tasks in the near future

Future CFO

Finance leaders expect AI to perform many of the finance and reporting tasks in the near future, said EY recently. According to the survey of more than 1,000 CFOs and financial controllers across 26 countries, 53%of respondents think it’s likely that more than half of the finance and reporting tasks currently performed by people will be executed by artificial intelligence (AI) over the next three years.

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Five traits of resilient organisations

Future CFO

The Deloitte Global 2021 Resilience Report identifies the traits of resilient organisations. The post Five traits of resilient organisations appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Bringing AI to Finance: How to Leverage Technology for Efficiency and Control

Finance teams are balancing more than ever, but manual processes shouldn’t slow you down. In this ebook from BILL, discover how AI is transforming finance—automating AP, expense tracking, and document management to reduce errors, increase efficiency, and improve financial control. Learn how real companies are using AI-powered automation to streamline workflows, detect anomalies, and gain deeper insights.