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To NPV or Not to NPV: That Is the Question

Fpanda Club

Analysts usually build their financial models for the first 5 years of the investment and then add terminal value for all the years coming thereafter which may contribute up to 50% of NPV. Key metrics should then be benchmarked against the market and/or competitors to check whether they are realistic or not.

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3 Marketing Tools to Adopt to Become Better Finance Business Partners

Fpanda Club

To become better business partners FP&A practitioners should be creative, but it is not an easy task with a financial mindset traditionally focused on numbers, correct calculations and cause-and-effect relationship. Key questions to ask and the example of SWOT analysis are represented in the illustrations below.

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Month-End Close: How to Speed Up the Process

Planful

This way, the FP&A system functions as a single source of truth housing all of the most up-to-date data, and the finance team doesn’t have to lose time at the end of each month culling and consolidating numbers from across the business. Reducing the length of the month-end close in any meaningful way depends on automation.

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PODCAST: Understanding Fundraising & Human Behavior

The Charity CFO

Number one, they don’t usually have a really strong answer for it. So that’s appeal, number two, there’s gotta be exclusivity. That means that it’s not very exclusive, which means that the, the, the, the potency of the appeals diluted by the number of competing options. Um, Tim, it’s so interesting.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. The s and p 500 has underperformed his fund by 3.7%

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

Onplan

OnPlan is a financial modeling and forecasting tool built by financial planners and analysts. Benchmarking and KPI tracking across the organization to stay on course. Financial and business performance management. Customers success. 6 factors when choosing an FP&A tool. Ad hoc reporting and visualization.