Defining FP&A to a Stranger at a Cocktail Party
It seems like Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is the jack-of-all-trades and the master of most others. FP&A answers strategic questions, forecasts for the future, ensures a timely accounting close, prepares board reporting packages, preps the executive team, divests a division, analyzes product line profitability, performs due diligence on an acquisitions and oh yeah does…