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Where Can FP&A Career Path Take You?

Fpanda Club

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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PodChats for FutureCFO: Revisiting FP&A roles post-pandemic

Future CFO

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.

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Reinventing FP&A post-pandemic

Future CFO

The Financial Planning and Analysis ( FP&A ) team performs budgeting, forecasting, and analysis that support major corporate decisions of the CFO, the CEO, and the Board of Directors. The job of managing a corporation’s cash flow typically falls to its FP&A team and its Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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FP&A works closer together with business & operations in Asia Pacific

Future CFO

Collaboration between financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and business and operations teams when forecasting and planning is greater in organisations within Asia Pacific than those in North America and multinationals, said the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) recently when releasing results of a survey.

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What Corporate Finance Tech Adoption Will Look Like In Two Years

PYMNTS

In corporate finance, the predictions are largely about the adoption of the most cutting-edge technologies, from artificial intelligence (AI) to blockchain. It’s that time of year again, when experts muse and analysts forecast for the year (and years) ahead. The latest report from Gartner, Inc. RPA was cited by 29 percent.

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Budget vs Actual Variance Analysis

BlueLight

Last month, I wrote an article about the FP&A function of the CFO suite ( link ). For this piece, I’ll dive into a tactical analysis that is important to every CEO and CFO, the budget vs actual variance analysis. If you are confused by the difference between budget, plan, actual, and forecast, let me explain.

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CFO Pros on the Move: February

The Finance Weekly

Krusmark has been associated with the mattress and bedding company since 2005 and has served in various financial leadership positions. David Callen, the previous CFO, has stepped down from his role, and he will continue to provide financial advisory services until March 3. Knight has also held finance leadership positions at Wachovia.

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