Discover the most helpful resources to level up your FP&A skills
Yes. A company that uses Google Sheets can use browser-based financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software or choose a platform that connects directly to Sheets. If you want to keep…
Finance teams running SAP keep hearing the same question from their own people. Can Claude just read our numbers? One option is an SAP MCP server: a standard interface through…
Ask three people in the same company for last quarter’s gross margin and you can get three answers, all of them defensible. The ERP has one figure. The BI dashboard…
AI in FP&A (financial planning and analysis) can already draft variance commentary, explain reconciliation movements, pull terms out of vendor contracts and build first-pass reports. It cannot own a close,…
Worldwide spend on cloud infrastructure hit a staggering $169 billion in 2022 with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) combined,…
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So, you want to learn how to use ChatGPT to write Excel formulas? The good news is, AI-powered platforms like…
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The market for pet brands is enormous. Two-thirds of American households own a pet and collectively spent $136.8 billion on…
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EBIT (Earnings Before Interest and Taxes) helps measure a company’s profitability. It is derived by subtracting expenses, excluding tax and…
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What happened when two highly-skilled Excel leaders took on the “best of the best” in the sport? Paul Barnhurst reveals…
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Money may not make the world go round, but it’s the lifeblood of your organization – whether you have been…
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“I have been at the inception points of three companies-Intuit, Netflix and Mozilla Firefox. And now I’m just trying to…
Read moreThe need for financial planning and analysis software has shot up as finance leaders are looking for SaaS tools to…
Read moreDrew Murphy nearly became a meteorologist. But he opted for a different type of forecasting, warning of impending storms as…
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This special edition of FP&A Today sees 1,524 finance pros join a LinkedIn Live session. In this episode Paul and…
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Rick Warren, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Innovation Care Partners, brings lessons from more than 25 years in…
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The finance sector offers fertile ground for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), as it constantly looks for new, and…
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Aarish Shah is Founder of EmergeONE a Fractional CFO firm for venture backed UK tech startups and scaleups (from Seed…
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Ashok Manthena has supported FP&A teams at some of the biggest and most well-known companies on the planet including Google,…
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Compliance activities, costs, and associated compliance risks are material business concerns for large companies. Understandably, many of these companies look…
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39%. That is the abysmal proportion of salespeople bashing phones who hit their quota in 2023, according to sales aggregator…
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“The male prison population in the United States is about 15% psychopaths. So if, if you’re a warden and you…
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The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for many business activities within an organization, commonly including enterprise risk management (ERM)….
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Robin Kiziak is Financial Controller and Finance Business Partner at VF Corporation (home of outdoor brands Vans, North Face and…
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A general ledger serves as the primary record keeping system for a company’s financial data. It is where every monetary…
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Tom Hood is one of the most influential leaders in accounting. The Executive Vice President, Business Growth and Engagement, at…
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If there was ever a time to start taking AI seriously, it’s now. Generative AI is predicted to be big…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic globally since OpenAI released ChaptGPT in November 2022. The popularity of this…
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After a long day crunching numbers and reviewing balance sheets, you come home, ready to immerse yourself in a different…
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Jake Luerkens and Connor Frischmeyer are co founders and partners at Auxo Partners, a finance advisory firm that helps startups…
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The rapid pace at which AI is advancing has left many finance professionals asking this question and worrying about its…
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Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to modelll! Broadcast on ESPN, watched by tens of thousands of people around the…
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As it is in many other industries, AI is making a profound impact on corporate finance. Just a few short…
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“Spend 10 minutes a week on yourself. Nobody else is going to take charge of your career except for you….
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“You can throw me in any water. Stormy, cold, or hot and I’ll start swimming.” And swimming is exactly what…
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Wassia Kamon built FP&A from the ground up at Intralot, a state lottery vendor behind the US Powerball lottery (as…
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Today’s guest is…Paul Barnhurst. Usually sitting in the presenter’s chair, this special edition sees Paul Barnhurst, aka The FP&A Guy…
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Danielle Stein Fairhust literally wrote the book on Excel and Financial Modeling. Well two books, actually. Using Excel for Business…
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Bjarte Bogsnes has worked with companies, from IKEA, H&M,Pernod Ricard, Volvo and Equinor (Scandinavia’s largest company). His work involves a…
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In this special FP&A Today episode, Paul is joined by three Excel experts whom Microsoft has recognized as Most Valuable…
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AI is a hot topic. It’s also a buzzword that is used in a lot of different ways. Will AI…
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Syed Nadeem is a top finance leader in Saudi Arabia. But the director of Budgeting at listed telecom company, Zain…
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Does this sound familiar to you? You are a smart, even brilliant, finance professional. But much of the work you…
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Maura Feddersen, behavioral research manager at Swiss Re, is an economist who previously worked in the economics team of two…
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Are you starting to think about your budget for the next year? Stop right now, argues Mikus Krams. As a…
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“I would like to see FP&A drive the planning process for go- to-market just because I think they will have…
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Vena Solutions is a cloud based FP&A software with an Excel interface. It integrates and secures data, improving aspects of…
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The second-biggest bank collapse in U.S. history created a storm for CFOs and their finance teams during a panic-induced 48…
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“I am definitely starting to see more people with an FP&A background becoming fractional CFOs.” Michael King, founder of The…
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“I must admit, when I was doing accounting, I never liked my FP&A colleagues. In fact, as a matter of…
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“It’s like a fuse being blown. You can push as much power as you want through the device, but if…
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The overall economic outlook for 2023 is not good, and CFOs in particular are quite pessimistic about the slow economic…
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Egor Lyasko is Head of FP&A, Northern Europe at The Kraft Heinz Company, encompassing some of the world’s most loved…
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Many CFOs preach about keeping up with technological change. But CFO Glenn Hopper went a step further. As ChatGPT talk…
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After analyzing over 7,000 calls we have had with buyers implementing FP&A solutions, we found that there are 4 main…
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Nicolas Boucher has a simple message to anyone who wants to move from audit to FP&A. The Head of Finance and…
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What does Carmen Turner love about FP&A? “Being able to provide businesses the insights they need to make great business…
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Asif Masani has an inner belief that has guided his entire career. “Whatever I learn something, I don’t feel good…
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The VC behind buzzy startups Calm, GoFundMe, Udemy and Gong is bullish on FP&A. Ryan Abdullah an Investor at Norwest…
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Kevin Appleby, COO of GrowCFO, asks potential CFO applicants a simple question. Okay, I know you want to become a…
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First the good news. FP&A hiring is not slowing down. In fact, FP&A is considered even more crucial in challenging…
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Aviv Canaani, VP Marketing, Datarails, and Christian Wattig, Head of Training at Datarails and founder of FP&A Prep, join Paul…
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A slightly different episode this week, featuring not a finance chief, but a CEO talking about the power and impact…
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Nearly 6 million professionals work within the CFO’s office in US companies alone (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Once seen…
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Casey Woo is a serial high Tech CFO turned investor. The Harvard educated financier “escaped” a life as an Investment…
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