Fpanda Club
APRIL 25, 2024
With constantly evolving role of the finance function in the organization, these are FP&A practitioners who feel the most pressure to be jack-of-all-trades. Growing variety and complexity of tasks force them to develop skills, both hard and soft, to keep up with all requirements and expectations. There is a specific product on the market I could associate FP&A with, and this is a Swiss multi-tool.
Fpanda Club
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Finance business partnering is not a new concept and has been around for a while. Well, not just for a while, for more than 60 years. “ The success …depends on the extent to which finance men are capable of looking outside finance and playing an active, rather than a passive, role in the business. ” — S. R. Harding, F.C.A., (Royal Dutch/Shell Group), 1963.
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Fpanda Club
MARCH 27, 2023
FP&A is the sexiest job in finance… While this may seem like an overstatement, FP&A positions are becoming incredibly popular and sought-after. Many finance professionals are starting to feel that they are too focused on historical data, reporting, compliance, etc. Moving into FP&A from other fields of finance, such as accounting and audit, has recently become very trendy.
Fpanda Club
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Hurricanes are among the most violent storms on our planet producing strong winds, heavy rains and floodings. Budgeting is a type of short-term planning the goal of which is to transform strategic objectives into operational plan by allocating available resources. Though one is a natural phenomenon and the other is a business process, budgets and hurricanes have more in common than it may be noticed at first sight.
Fpanda Club
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
FP&A teams do not have a crystal ball… Yet, they have to answer management’s questions about the future every day. What sales will the company generate next year? What revenue will the launch of a new product bring us? How will the competitor’s move impact our market share? These are only few examples of the uncertainty we face. Being asked for advice about uncertain future outcomes is indeed flattering, but at the same time it adds much pressure and responsibility.
Fpanda Club
JULY 24, 2022
Warren Buffett once suggested that the concepts of time value of money and discounted cash flow (DCF) model were introduced more than 2500 years ago. In about 600 B.C. oracle Aesop formulated his investment insight "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and since that time the model for calculating the value of an asset as the present value of the cash generated by this asset throughout its life has remained unchanged.
Fpanda Club
MAY 17, 2022
Budget and annual planning cycle - these words can make many people tremble. Aimed at determining firm’s short-term objectives and transforming them into operational plan by allocating available resources, annual planning exercise is mostly considered by its stakeholders to be a curse rather than a savior. There are many reasons to hate budget effort.
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