Financial Planning & Analysis
FP&A Newsletter
FP&A newsletter – now offered monthly – provides thought leadership, best practices and news for financial planning and analysis professionals. With more than 4,400 subscribers from over 100 countries and all 50 states at companies as large as $20+ billion in over a dozen sectors, shouldn’t you subscribe today? Recent headlines include:
- The Real Value of Driver Based Forecasting - Summer 2011
- Making Time for FP&A – Summer 2011
- Why You Should Consider Risk Adjusted Planning – Summer 2011
- Analytics for Dynamic Planning and Forecasting – Summer 2011
- What’s the Point of Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting – Fall 2011
- 7 Prerequisites for Best in Class Financial Planning – Winter 2011
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Help Us Build the New FP&A Credential
One of the initial steps in developing the certification exam is to collect feedback on FP&A job responsibilities, the relative importance of specific tasks performed and the knowledge and skills required. If you are a corporate financial planning and analysis professional, please consider participating in the survey which will be distributed in March.
It’s easy to sign up to be a survey respondent- just fill-out and send this email and you will be added to the list!
Cost of Capital Survey
The recently released "Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital" study confirms the belief that the finance profession is far from agreement on the proper techniques to accurately model and forecast their organizations’ actual cost of capital.
AFP believes that this survey is the first step in moving cost of capital analysis from the art that it is today to the science that it needs to become.