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50 Shades of FP&A Maturity

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From a strategic standpoint, FP&A capabilities to provide business insights and drive informed decision making can become a source of competitive advantage for the company. Progressive FP&A is characterized by using best practices in key processes of the function and tends to leverage technologies to bring value.

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The top strategic business priority shared by CFOs and CEOs

Future CFO

While CFOs and CEOs agree on growth as their top strategic business priority, their emphasis on this and other priorities differ, Gartner pointed out. For instance, CFOs’ second top strategic business priority is corporate action such as M&A and restructuring (41%), which ranks fourth for CEOs (27%), the firm added.

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Where Can FP&A Career Path Take You?

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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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Transcript: William Cohan

Barry Ritholtz

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. COHAN: — and they’re restructuring.