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FP&A Trends: Intelligent FP&A: Top Three Challenges and How To Overcome Them
November 15, 2022
“Organisations fail to move past legacy ways of working. To this day, Excel remains the most common tool for running complex FP&A activities. Despite its popularity, spreadsheet-based planning is heavily constrained and unable to meet modern business needs and speed. It restricts collaboration, increases the risk of error, and often works in a silo and even when it is not, it can be time-consuming to integrate properly.”
CFO Dive: CFO FP&A Close-up: Modern Planning and Analysis
November 14, 2022
“The purpose of FP&A, at its core, is profitability. “You would be surprised how large companies can get and still not understand their profitability, and at the end of the day, this is the purpose of FP&A,” said Sheeran.”
CFO Journal: 3 Data Management Challenges—and 4 Ways to Respond
November 10, 2022
“It can be difficult for technology industry leaders to weather the many challenges of rising data volume, shifting regulations, higher costs, and increasing complexity. However, by focusing consistently on collaboration, flexibility, modernization, and automation, they may enhance operations and better anticipate and respond to regulatory requirements.”
CFO Magazine: 6 Stakeholders Who Support the CFO to Take ESG Beyond Compliance
November 10, 2022
“With all these stakeholders taking such a keen interest in ESG, there is a strong case for CFOs to take a strategic view of ESG compliance and reporting, whether it is compulsory or not. The forward-looking CFO doesn’t think ESG is just another compliance burden. They realize that finance is looking at an opportunity to gain and secure business while accruing other benefits and savings that go way beyond regulatory success.”
