FP&A Done Right
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: Traditional Budgeting is a Challenge
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, 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…
May 1, 2020
FP&A Done Right: Spreadsheets are Outdated
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, 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…
April 17, 2020
FP&A Done Right: Financial Modeling – Your Superpower
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, 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…
March 6, 2020
FP&A Done Right: The Path to Great Reporting
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Planning, 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: What Prevents Business Agility
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, 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…
December 6, 2019
FP&A Done Right: Are you Ready to Start Analyzing Differently?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, written by Anders Lui-Lindberg. Lui-Lindberg’s blog post fits perfectly with our series’ theme of sharing insights on how the Office of Finance can change from traditional budgeting and “business as…