FP&A Done Right: What Must FP&A Do Differently to Make Planning a Success
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Anders Liu-Lindberg. Lui-Lindberg explains why FP&A can no longer take a narrow view of its own role. FP&A is obviously concerned with financials; however FP&A can no longer take…
June 5, 2020
FP&A Done Right: 3 Words for a COVID-19 World – “Flexible Budget Variance”
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Bob Hansen. It is part of a series of blogs from Adaptive Insights designed to help customers weather the storm brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the COVID-19 pandemic…
May 22, 2020
FP&A Done Right: The Office of Finance in the COVID-19 Economy
Three months ago, we could not have imagined life as it is today. We’re experiencing an economic slowdown that none of us have seen before. Not a single industry is immune from the impact of the U.S. and other countries sheltering-in. Many…
May 8, 2020
FP&A Done Right: Modernize Your Budget Process to Anticipate Change
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins explains why traditional budgeting is no longer adequate for most companies. Traditional budgeting is simply too slow and too rigid to keep up with today’s rapidly…
May 1, 2020
FP&A Done Right: A Future Without Spreadsheets?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Adaptive Insights’ Founder Rob Hull. It was originally published on FEI Daily. The global marketplace is moving faster, requiring companies to be more agile than ever in this age…
April 17, 2020
FP&A Done Right: What is Financial Modeling?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins explains financial modeling. Financial modeling is like a superpower—one that lets you test your assumptions and hypotheses across dimensions, versions, and time before executing budgets…
March 6, 2020
FP&A Done Right: How to Improve your Financial Reporting Process
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins discusses some of the challenges with traditional financial reporting processes. For FP&A, financial reporting is a tricky balancing act. If you share too many reports,…
February 28, 2020
FP&A Done Right: The Victors of the Decade Combine Agility and Resilience
As we near the end of the decade, it’s a good time to think back about what businesses have learned from an FP&A perspective, and how they can fortify and position themselves for the next decade and for future decades. The beginning…
December 20, 2019
FP&A Done Right: 3 Barriers to Business Agility
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins examines what business agility really means for the Office of Finance. There’s a lot of talk these days about business agility. Yet it’s much more…