Immature Driver Models Undermine Rolling Forecasts in Manufacturing
Rolling Forecasts and Driver-Based Planning are management approaches that …
No Cookie-Cutter Approach to Planning & Forecasting
What does your forecasting cycle look like?
The Journey to Integrated Reporting
There is no single path to an integrated reporting implementation.
FP&A Professionals: Make Your Clients Intelligent Consumers
There’s no question that a, if not the, principal role of the FP&A function is to produce meaningful information enabling enterprise managers to make fast, intelligent decisions. The ability to design reports
Fear of Performance (or…Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My)
In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy expresses her fear of lions and tigers and bears. Some of us who head to work each morning have a fear of performance-management-buzzword animals like BSC - Balanced Scorecard, KPIs - Key Performance Indicators, and OKRs - Objectives and Key Results.
Following a Different Path – Rolling Forecasts in Manufacturing
Recent economic conditions have elevated interest in rolling forecasts as means of coping with increasing uncertainty and volatility. Proponents believe that a faster and more forward looking process creates value by
Are Exceptional EPM Systems the Exception?
Quite naturally, many organizations over-rate the quality of their enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM / CPM) practices and systems. In reality
CFOs – Vanguards or Villains?
I continue to get mixed signals regarding how advanced CFOs are with their journey to become the “strategic advisor” that is so frequently mentioned in finance and accounting magazines and consulting firm’s centers of excellence (CoE) websites. There are countless articles…
Is Your Performance Management Driven By Strategy?
As more and more companies focus to increase their productivity and the overall performance of their organization, it is important for them to realize that performance management is at the heart of their success. This means ensuring alignment of the entire organization with the strategic objectives of the organization and implementing a strategic performance management system fully…
Increasing Company Value with Integrated Reporting
Can we evolve the Finance job into an innovative activity? Yes we can.
Can we increase the number of corporate reporting users from just a few specialists to potentially everybody who is interested in our company? Yes we can.
Can we transform our financial statement from a boring encyclopedia into a business tool able to increase the value of our capitals? Yes we can.