Following a year of unprecedented uncertainty, organizations find themselves immersed in a world of dead budgets and unrealistic forecasts. A world in which senior managers look to the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) department to lead the way so that the organization can more readily adapt to fast–changing business conditions with unpredictable futures.    It is a situation that FP&A have been anticipating, demonstrated by the 7 top current FP&A trends discussed below. These trends, which started....

If we travelled in a car that could take us to the future, where would we see FP&A? The future of FP&A would not be standstill. FP&A may borrow from many of the traditional planning and analysis processes, but will make them more dynamic and accessible to companies of all sizes. Instead of crunching numbers,....