ben zimmerman30 Excel hacks for FP&A ProfessionalsRecently, my team implemented an AFP&A (Agile Financial Planning and Analysis) solution that shorten our cycles by more than 50% but stil...
ben zimmermanCPM is Dead. Hail to the New King: AFP&A In recent years, we have all witnessed the rise of CPM (corporate performance management) systems. Finance managers, after years of seein...
ben zimmermanInterview - How Southwest's FP&A Team Helps The Airline's Strategy Take OffThe finance department is increasingly relied on to provide strategic advice, or to be a bean sprouter, as opposed to just a bean counter...
ben zimmermanA New Age of Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB)The concept of Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) is by no means new. It has been around for almost 50 years and has been used by many commercial...
ben zimmermanTwo Examples of Flexible Target Setting for FP&A Process Among the difficult subjects for FP&A and management, there is the very “sensitive” relation between budget or forecast and managers comp...
ben zimmermanPrediction and Estimate in FP&AWhile FP&A professionals work in a field of numbers, language is a critical component of our profession. Far too often there is loose use...
ben zimmermanIntegrated Business Planning VS. Integrated Financial Planning?Forward Integrated Financial Planning (IFP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) mean different things to different people. Primarily b...
ben zimmermanThe Rolling Forecasting TrapBeyond Budgeting has now been around for twenty years. More and more companies across the world are embarking on a Beyond Budgeting journ...
