Newsletter: September 2024

FP&A Tools to Navigate Uncertainty

Sponsored by Unit4

  • A review of the latest FP&A trends and product capabilities helping companies navigate through uncertainty.
  • Author: BPM Partners
  • Date: September 2024
  • Pages: 19
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Executive Summary:

Uncertainty ahead, for Finance, is all but certain. Accelerated change—driven by technology advances, geopolitical conflict, electoral and regulatory shifts—is a constant. Finance leaders know they must be equipped with new capabilities to navigate through turbulent periods. There are solutions available today that offer many of the required capabilities. They can prepare organizations to manage performance and optimize results in the face of business conditions with numerous unknowns and growing volatility. Many companies already take advantage of these solutions. It’s up to you to determine the timeline for your company to join them. Topics covered include:

  • AI (data quality with anomaly detection, automation, predictive forecasting, interactive analysis with Gen AI)
  • Extended Planning and Analysis
  • Scenario Planning
  • Continuous Forecasting
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Profitability Optimization
  • Finance Transformation

How Evolving FP&A Trends and Capabilities Can Help You Navigate Uncertainty

Sponsored by: Unit4 FP&A

  • This interactive discussion will cover the current FP&A trends that are driven by the need for greater agility in navigating ongoing uncertainty.
  • Speakers: Oliver Sullivin, Director – Global FP&A, Unit4, Craig Schiff, CEO and Lead Analyst, BPM Partners
  • Originally Broadcast: October 2024
  • Duration: 45 minutes
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Executive Summary:

Finance teams, more than ever are impacted by changes, with emerging trends regularly hindering their ability to report, budget, plan or report with confidence. When armed with Cloud-based ERP and FP&A, finance teams can adapt to changing trends while also monitoring its effect on the wider organizations, leveraging efficient analysis to form strategy. Topics to be covered include:

  • Finance digital transformation, and what’s needed now
  • How artificial intelligence could shape financial analysis
  • The implications of Extended Planning and Analysis
  • The importance of data source connectivity