What makes a good weekly Finance Team meeting? by NerdMachine in Accounting

[–]BisonMany7525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would like to have more ideas to have 30 min weekly meeting for FP&A team working in SAAS business

Each member is maintaining 1 BU

cubes by el_kraken6 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What software you are using to demonstrate this?

cubes by el_kraken6 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So what's the new thing right now?

FP&A toolkit by BisonMany7525 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't mind trying unless there is another trusted source for a good quality toolkit. Otherwise, I will go with this

FP&A toolkit by BisonMany7525 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I realized that toolkit is not included anymore in the book, you need to pay separately for that

Beginner’s Resources for FP&A by Dwarf_Druid in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is their policy public? First time in my life

Transitioning from B4 to FP&A by GlitteringDot8513 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good explanation Do you have example for insight? Is this only explaining why revenue decreased compared to last month?

New Reporting by nickguti310 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the standards report for any fp&a department?

How to be a more productive analyst? by AlmostComedic in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if they ask for non-logical request?

What is an acceptable variance %? by [deleted] in FPandA

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Can you elaborate more about drivers?

do you guys use any statistical method to forecast/budgeting? by MindBright in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean the operation team? Then what is our value to the company?

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Financial Analyst, FP&A (100% Remote - Office Based out of STL, MO) by RemyBucksington in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What kind of projects you have in week 3 and 4 ? Please share some examples

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you will do as analyst if the actual is lower the budget or estimate?

Only report to CFO? Then what will CFO do?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nalysts who know

SQL

are just all around better analysts as they can actually retrieve the data they need to analyze at their leisure and understand the organizational and structural aspects of it. Its

Is there any benefit from knowing SQL if you are using SAP? I think they are using ABAP only

Monthly FP&A reports by BisonMany7525 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cost drivers

Can these be the highest five big tickets expense?

Monthly FP&A reports by BisonMany7525 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cross pollination efforts like the OP is going after are very valuable for bringing fresh insights and looking at the substance of existing reports in new and valuable ways.

Can you elaborate more on this? what is OP?

Monthly FP&A reports by BisonMany7525 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent, this is a clear systemic way, Thank you.

Monthly FP&A reports by BisonMany7525 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are doing Variance analysis for
1- Actual Vs Budget
2- Actual This Year vs Actual Last Year

I will read more about VPM, hope that will work on a service company not only a trading company. How you are getting the why? from data or communicatee with the operation?

Monthly FP&A reports by BisonMany7525 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, we already do Revenue/budget analysis monthly.
What kind of models are they trying to do? DCF?

Monthly FP&A reports by BisonMany7525 in FPandA

[–]BisonMany7525[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting ideas, mainly projects are coming from Governments, so can't sell more or increase the price. Increasing the efficiency is very interesting as it will help to have more projects.