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

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This involves projecting revenues, expenses, and other key financial metrics based on historical data, market trends, and business strategies. FP&A also helps assess financial risks, such as liquidity risks, market risks, or operational risks, allowing organizations to develop risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

In this, the first of the data posts for this year, I will describe my data, in terms of geographic spread and industrial breakdown, the variables that I estimate and report on, the choices I make when I analyze data, as well as caveats on best uses and biggest misuses of the data.