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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. APQC, AFP Next level of FP&A study, 2019 2. Sources: 1.

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The CFO's role in IPO preparations

Future CFO

Initial public offerings or IPOs are among the significant milestones for a company as it transition to one open to public investment from being a privately held entity, and the chief financial officer play an important role for the journey's success. Besides, strengthening financial controls is imperative.

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10 Best FP&A Software Tools: A Comprehensive Buyer’s Guide [2023]

Onplan

Finance professionals and teams today have numerous solutions available to help them plan, budget, forecast, and analyze financial information. However, not all FP&A tools are created equal. The 10 best FP&A companies featured in this list are: OnPlan. So, what is the best FP&A software? Key features.

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3 Marketing Tools to Adopt to Become Better Finance Business Partners

Fpanda Club

Marketing teams, being among FP&A’s counterparties, are usually considered to be the most creative people in the company. FP&A team’s internal customers expect finance professionals to be more interactive and be able to communicate information and insights in the most efficient way.

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PodChats for FutureCFO: Moving up the FP&A maturity curve

Future CFO

As organisations progress in their digital transformation journeys, CFOs are making structural changes to their finance departments, These include weaving together a mix of shared service centres, centres of excellence, and outsourcing arrangements. What is an FP&A maturity curve? Do you see it ever reaching a CFO level?

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Why Financial Forecasting Is More Important Than Your Annual Budget

Centage

But times have changed – which is why financial forecasting is more important than your annual budget. They’re focused less on benchmarking current performance to the predicted budget and instead want to leverage real-time data to understand what the future looks like. What’s the Financial Forecast Look Like?

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Preparing Your Finance Organization for the New Era of AI

CFO Leadership

Future-forward finance and accounting organizations were quick to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) years ago to manage mundane, repetitive back-office tasks like data entry and routine financial reporting. AI is a tool and not a replacement for finance professionals.