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With its promise of extending FP&A principles beyond finance and into other areas of the business, such as marketing, workforce, sales, and IT, xP&A (or xP&A, extended planning and analysis) is the future of enterprise planning. But don’t take our word for it. In Gartner’s 2020 Strategic Roadmap for Cloud Financial… Read More
How does a highly effective finance team take control of complexity and fragmented information? They start by building common standards that help employees across the company integrate information in an efficient way to deliver a single version of the truth. Like many streamlined practices, the idea of common FP&A metrics… Read More
Every day, the correlation between business agility and competitive success grows stronger. Especially now, in the aftermath of a global pandemic that’s intensified more than a decade of compounding instability. With many businesses operating in uncharted territory, the old ways of collecting data and creating reports are essentially useless. That’s because… Read More
Business agility is a requirement for business success. Not convinced? Ask literally every business that was ambulatory in 2019 and remains up and running today. Business agility, to a great extent, proved a defining characteristic of market leaders at a time when most businesses were under existential threat from pandemic-related… Read More
Many businesses are shifting into recovery mode after the economic disruption caused by COVID-19. While it’s too soon to divine the lasting implications of this pandemic, most organizational leaders anticipate there will be echoes well into the the forseeable future. For many businesses, COVID-19 has fundamentally changed expense structures. Travel… Read More
When a business operates in a steady state, planning is straightforward. You can build forecasts and plans based on the previous two years’ actuals with reasonable confidence that the future you’ve mapped out will more or less come to pass. In case you haven’t noticed, however, the business world has… Read More
Thriving in an unpredictable environment requires agility. But yesterday’s forecasting, budgeting, and planning systems aren’t fast, powerful, or accurate enough to keep up with changing regulations, funding levels, and program demand. On the other hand, cloud-based enterprise planning enables public sector organizations to generate data-driven budgets and forecasts, deliver higher-level… Read More
As CFOs look ahead to the remainder of 2021 and beyond, a new survey finds them increasingly optimistic about their organization’s economic prospects. They are interested in the growth of the digital economy, lasting shifts in consumer behavior, and the prevalence of work-from-home arrangements. Finance leaders are also looking to… Read More
xP&A stands for extended planning and analysis—taking the best of modern finance planning and extending it across the enterprise. But it’s not new. We’ve been calling it company-wide planning for years. Finance leaders whose organizations have been made more agile and strategic with modern planning and analysis have known for years… Read More
In late 2019, Mercer surveyed business leaders about their expectations for the next three years. Nearly three out of four (73%) said they expected “significant disruption.” Imagine how the other 27% felt when 2020 came around. The stark reality of business today—that change is faster than ever, but will never… Read More
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