Monthly Archives: November 2021

FP&A Trends: What is Integrated FP&A?

“FP&A is all about managing the value of the company through understanding, describing the value through models, supporting decision making, telling the story, and communicating to the stakeholders. Integrated FP&A involves harmonising the three levels of planning – Strategic, Financial and Operational levels”. Read More at FP&A Trends >

CFO Journal: Finance 2025: Operating Models, Data Integration, ERP, and the Workforce

“Does your company have a streamlined finance data infrastructure that can help you take advantage of advanced technologies and deliver insights? Finance data serves as a core foundational component of other accelerants, such as extracting an increasingly sophisticated level of business insights that can drive corporate strategy and are also relevant to stakeholders. This will require […]

CFO Journal: 2025 Finance Predictions: The Pandemic Effect

“As real-time information moves closer to reality, and business analysis grows increasingly automated, finance will likely bolster its efficiency by offloading some responsibilities to captive locations, centers of excellence, and outsourcing vendors—all of which may be held to a higher standard. Lower costs can enable the function to invest in work that is building enterprise […]

SF Magazine: The Four Levers of Revenue Management

4 key levers of revenue management modified from the Dupont ROI Framework: Pricing Basis Inventory Allocation Product Configuration Duration Control Read More at SF Magazine >

IndustryWeek: Manufacturing CEOs Share What’s Keeping Them Up at Night

2 out of the 5 current pain points for manufacturing CEOs: Global supply chain disruptions Commodity and raw material prices Read More at IndustryWeek >

CFO Magazine: Cycle Time to Complete the Annual Budget: Metric of the Month

“Based on data from more than 3,900 organizations in our Open Standards Benchmarking survey for Planning and Management Accounting, APQC finds that top performers complete the annual budget in 25 days or less — half the time it takes organizations in the 75th percentile.” Read More at CFO Magazine >