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Everything You Wanted to Know about FP&A Best Practices

Fpanda Club

Being an emerging discipline within finance function, financial planning and analysis encompasses its own processes, tools, techniques and skills which should be optimized to meet constantly growing needs, requirements and responsibilities. CFO Innovation, Oct 12, 2016 5.

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How to Reduce the Pain of Board Reporting

Planful

According to a recent benchmark survey by APQC, the bottom performers take 12 days or more to close the books and report their results to management. In terms of contributors, this can include staff from Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Tax, and Audit, as well as the CFO, reviewing results and creating and editing the textual commentary.