The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Did you know that 47% of businesses still rely on spreadsheets for financial planning, despite the risks of errors and inefficiencies? Workday Adaptive Planning aims to solve this problem by offering a cloud-based Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) solution with AI-powered forecasting, budgeting, and workforce planning tools.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Future CFO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

However, as the company grew, it faced mounting challenges in managing financial planning through manual spreadsheets. This method proved both time-consuming and prone to errors, leaving the organisation with a fragmented view of its financial health due to siloed IT systems.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Thought Leader

JUNE 9, 2025

In this episode of Planning Aces, co-hosts Jack Sweeney and Brett Knowles spotlight the FP&A strategies and AI adoption journeys of three CFOs—Gillian Munson (Vimeo), Dan Fletcher (Planful), and Chad Gold (FullStory).

Planning

Lime Light

MAY 20, 2025

If you're a small to mid-sized business using QuickBooks Online (QBO), chances are you've experienced its ease of use for accountingbut maybe not so much for budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting. You're not alone.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Thought Leader

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

In this episode of “Planning Aces,” finance leaders explore the evolving role of FP&A as a strategic partner emphasizing the importance of reliable data in aligning decision-making and resetting priorities. Leveraging AI emerges as a key theme for optimizing financial processes and enabling real-time collaboration.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

E78 Partners

MARCH 3, 2025

Investors have a heightened appetite for businesses with proven financial fundamentals and clear paths to profitability. Despite these favorable conditions, successful IPOs require meticulous preparation, robust financial reporting, and a governance framework that instills investor confidence. The Renaissance IPO Index has risen by 4.9%

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

MARCH 13, 2025

The True Cost of Spreadsheet Errors Spreadsheets have long been the foundation of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for businesses. They are used for everything from budgeting and forecasting to tax reporting and financial close processes.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

With global economies bracing for uncertainty in 2025 , financial teams are under pressure to adapt faster than ever. Political shifts, rising inflation, and unpredictable market trends are forcing businesses to rethink their financial planning strategies. What is Prophix? Who Its Meant For?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Cube Software

JULY 7, 2025

What is FP&A software? Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software is a type of financial management tool that helps businesses plan, monitor, and optimize their financial performance.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

JULY 27, 2025

Prophix is a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform, offering robust tools for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial consolidation. However, as organizations scale or require greater flexibility, many finance teams encounter limitations with Prophix.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

MAY 13, 2025

Sage Intacct is a leading cloud-based financial management software built for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). It handles core accounting tasksaccounts payable/accounts receivable, cash flow, general ledgerwith ease, and comes equipped with dashboards and real-time reporting to streamline daily operations.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Finding the right FP&A software isn't just about comparing feature listsit requires digging through countless user reviews, navigating different rating systems, and reading between the lines of real customer experiences. Think of it as your cheat sheet to finding the perfect FP&A software, saving you time and headaches.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

JULY 4, 2025

Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is at the core of running a profitable hospitality business. Whether you’re managing a boutique hotel, branded property, or a global chain, having accurate budgets, rolling forecasts, and real-time insights is non-negotiable.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

AUGUST 6, 2025

Discover why Limelight is the modern, scalable, and cost-effective FP&A solution finance teams love. Looking for the best SAP BPC alternative?

SAP

Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis. The emerging FP&A practice steps out of the shadow of other finance functions becoming a standalone entity which involves its own mission, goals, organization, processes, tools and skills.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Fpanda Club

MARCH 1, 2021

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.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Bramasol

APRIL 28, 2022

This episode focuses on how DSE business models present new challenges with regard to Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) processes, which require enhanced agility, scalability and end-to-end integration to handle DSE's inherently dynamic requirements. How is FP&A different from traditional accounting?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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. There is a specific product on the market I could associate FP&A with, and this is a Swiss multi-tool. So, if FP&A were a Swiss multi-tool, how could we sell it?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Fpanda Club

APRIL 11, 2021

Many FP&A professionals have faced the misunderstanding of the role of the FP&A function and its core activities in the company. This article explores the most common myths surrounding the financial planning and analysis function, its key activities and outputs which many FP&A stakeholders believe in.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Jedox Finance

JUNE 26, 2019

We are pleased to welcome an expert in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Mr. Anders Liu-Lindberg, as a guest to the Jedox blog. In a large scale survey by a global firm, CFOs named Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) a top priority to transform and derive more value.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

As change continues to add uncertainty to the Healthcare sector finance leaders remain tasked with effectively analyzing, monitoring and predicting the financial performance of your organization. Accelerate your budgeting cycles and minimize the risk of data errors. Today, it’s a fast-paced business world.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

JUNE 12, 2023

As change continues to add uncertainty to businesses across industries, finance leaders are tasked with effectively analyzing, monitoring and predicting the financial performance of their organizations with a new level of granularity. Today, it’s a fast-paced business world. That’s a lot of moving parts.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

AUGUST 29, 2023

Budget season is one of the most important times for financial teams, as it sets the tone for how well the company will grow. However, teams shouldn’t only focus on business budgeting for a month or a year. They should forecast and plan for them all year long. The costs and expenses are set well in advance.

Budgeting

Future CFO

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Among these are the changes that were faced in the financial planning and analysis function. Data in the cloud also aided Vena Energy’s FP&A team in analysing data remotely. Chew believes this technology contributed significantly to the success of their FP&A operations.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

JULY 19, 2022

Business budgeting is a crucial factor with the ability to impact a business’ long-term success or failure. Along with providing important information regarding day-to-day operations, an accurate budget better enables companies to predict revenue, trim costs, and make decisions regarding expenditures and opportunities.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Between a volatile stock market, high interest rates, supply chain issues, inflation, and a possible recession, having a solid financial planning process in place is an important piece of sustaining your business through challenging times. Budget vs Actual Statement – What It Is and What It Isn’t.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Technology adoption in FP&A is set to accelerate, driven by macroeconomic uncertainty and ongoing disruptions, said Gartner recently. Making FP&A more predictive and agile will offer enormous benefits and help to make the business more responsive to changing economic conditions and new opportunities.”.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Workforce planning is important to meeting your organization’s strategic vision, but it’s something that many consider a kind of fortune telling. In reality, it’s more science than art, and should be a critical component of management’s operational planning – especially during uncertain times. Download the Workforce Planning Toolkit.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Jedox Finance

DECEMBER 28, 2021

According to Gartner, 70% of new financial planning and analysis (FP&A) projects are slated to become extended planning and analysis (xP&A) projects by 2024. Historically, financial planning & analysis has centered around tasks such as planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Finance Weekly

JULY 19, 2022

FP&A software assists CFOs, finance leaders, and FP&A experts in ensuring the financial health of their organization by tracking and analyzing current outcomes and forecasting future performance. What is FP&A? Why do you need FP&A? The top 10 best FP&A Software Tools Available.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Lime Light

JUNE 12, 2023

However, when your skilled FP&A team members spend hours gathering and formatting static spreadsheets, that’s less time being spent on analyzing results, developing what-if-scenarios, and modeling strategic plans and forecasts. So how can Oracle NetSuite customers automate FP&A?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) teams play a crucial role in companies by performing budgeting, forecasting, and analysis that support major corporate decisions of the CFO, CEO, and the Board of Directors. How things have changed for the FP&A teams.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

MARCH 7, 2023

At Centage, we’re committed to equipping finance teams to meet this challenge by providing automated, cloud FP&A software solutions that make it easy to perform the detailed, bottom-up budgeting and sophisticated scenario analysis needed to spot risks and opportunities early. So how are CFOs shifting their goals for 2023?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

MAY 31, 2022

Just as content is king in the world of marketing, when it comes to financial decision-making, data is everything. If you want to outsell the competition, then upgrading your financial planning and analysis (FP&A) efforts is of the utmost importance.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between pandemic insecurities, a supply chain crisis, labor shortages, and the growing threat of recession, companies that rely on traditional planning and forecasting may find themselves struggling to stay competitive. To stay agile and accurate, businesses need to utilize automated financial tools that allow for rolling forecasts.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

MAY 23, 2022

The current economic circumstances haven’t just resulted in financial uncertainty for millions of Americans. They’ve also helped reveal the problems inherent in conventional budgeting methodologies. Read on to discover the benefits of rolling budgeting, rolling financial forecasting, and mid-year forecasts for your business.

Forecasting

Spreadym

JUNE 27, 2023

What is Financial Planning and Analysis or FP&A? FP&A is a process used by organizations to develop and manage their financial plans and make informed decisions based on financial analysis. The primary objectives of FP&A. The primary objectives of FP&A.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)