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What is Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)?

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What is Financial Planning and Analysis or FP&A? FP&A is a process used by organizations to develop and manage their financial plans and make informed decisions based on financial analysis. Financial Analysis: Financial analysis is a continuous stage that runs throughout the FP&A process.

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From Controller to CFO: What Changes?

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Financial Analysis: The CFO decides what financial analysis to do to improve the business and shares these insights with other department heads. The duo contributes to financial analysis, with the CFO often spearheading this task. The Controller might help by pulling together the necessary data.

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Explained

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The Role of Bookkeeping in KPIs Bookkeeping is the foundational layer upon which the edifice of financial analysis, including KPIs, is built. Misclassifications or omissions in bookkeeping can lead to misguided assessments of financial health.

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Budget vs Actuals: The Key to Measuring Business Performance  

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Continuous Improvement Budget vs actuals analysis is a continuous process. Learning from past variances and adjusting your budgets and strategies accordingly gives you the insight to consistently improve your company’s financial performance.

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Private Real Estate Fund Categories: A Risk/Return Assessment

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Based on the risk-adjusted performance of all three categories of private real estate funds, investors are paying billions in economically unwarranted fees.

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The Intangible Valuation Renaissance: Five Methods

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Intangible assets are increasingly critical to corporate value, and new valuation methods need to be deployed to accurately calculate their worth.

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ESG and the Commons: From Tragedy to Governance?

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Sustainable investing will become the rule and no longer the exception. But this transition comes amid a disquieting change in how we must view capital, production, and their attendant effects.