FP&A Today - Episode 19 - Budgeting & Forecasting: All Your Questions Answered
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FP&A Today - Episode 19 - Budgeting & Forecasting: All Your Questions Answered

In this special LinkedIn Live/ FP&A Today, join Paul Barnhurst and our all-star panel to answer your questions for budget season based on their decades of experience.

1) The best piece of advice you give - or have been given for a successful budget process over your career?

2) Top Down or Bottoms Up Budgeting?

3) Should we move beyond budgeting?

4) The role AI can play in budgeting?

5) What do you do when leadership comes up with unrealistic numbers?

6) How do you incorporate and manage your finance tech stack during the budget process?

7) What does the budget process in a startup look like?

8)What impact did COVID have on budgeting?

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FP&A Today Episode 13 - Christian Wattig: Getting from Good to Great in FP&A
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FP&A Today Episode 13 - Christian Wattig: Getting from Good to Great in FP&A

Christian Wattig is one of the world’s leading experts in FP&A having led teams at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Squarespace. Today Christian is FP&A Solution Architect, Datarails, and manages the top-rated FP&A Bootcamp explicitly designed for professionals who work full-time and want to ramp up their FP&A game.

In this wide-ranging interview Christian provides actionable advice for any FP&A professional:

➡How FP&A can help marketing attribution

➡The need for FP&A to embrace Gray Areas

➡The importance of curiosity

➡His FP&A ootcamp teaching hundreds of FP&A leaders

➡Hard-won secrets for business partnering

➡The need to forecast ranges

➡How to cope with vast data

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FP&A Today Episode 7 - Kenneth Fick
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FP&A Today Episode 7 - Kenneth Fick

Kenneth Fick, had it in his background to be in FP&A: His father spent 40 years in FP&A at Fisher Price.

Ken is now Vice President of Financial Planning Analysis at Citrin Cooperman which is a $350 million accounting tax and advisory firm based in New York. In this interview Kenneth discusses:

  • Being a 20-year-old watching the chaos unfold at Circuit City which is now taught as an example of corporate failure in America

  • While technical skills get you first roles, you get promoted through skills in influence and storytelling

  • Becoming a leading name in FP&A through his writing – including a viral article about how to exactly define to a stranger what FP&A is, at a cocktail party

  • His budget process and love of budgeting as a means of listening to the company

  • Why it angers him that FP&A is being judged on predictions

  • How fuzzy data is at the core of FP&A

  • Linear regression and statistical modeling in Excel

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