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| fp&a variance analysis: Unlocking the World of FP&A: A Beginner Guide to Financial Planning and Analysis Jovi Sia, 2024-02-15 Unlock the World of FP&A: Your Comprehensive Guide to Financial Planning and Analysis is a must-read for anyone aspiring to excel in the dynamic field of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). This book provides a comprehensive exploration of FP&A fundamentals, from its definition and purpose to its key components, roles, and responsibilities. Delving into advanced topics such as emerging trends and cutting-edge technologies, readers will gain valuable insights into how FP&A professionals drive strategic decision-making, manage risks, and optimize financial performance. |
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| fp&a variance analysis: Future Ready Steve Morlidge, Steve Player, 2010-02-19 The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with the consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in business have known for years; in most organizations, the process of forecasting is badly broken. For that reason, forecasting business performance tops the list of concerns for CFO's across the globe. It is time to rethink the way businesses organize and run forecasting processes and how they use the insights that they provide to navigate through these turbulent times. This book synthesizes and structures findings from a range of disciplines and over 60 years of the authors combined practical experience. This is presented in the form of a set of simple strategies that any organization can use to master the process of forecasting. The key message of this book is that while no mortal can predict the future, you can take the steps to be ready for it. ’Good enough’ forecasts, wise preparation and the capability to take timely action, will help your organization to create its own future. Written in an engaging and thought provoking style, Future Ready leads the reader to answers to questions such as: What makes a good forecast? What period should a forecast cover? How frequently should it be updated? What information should it contain? What is the best way to produce a forecast? How can you avoid gaming and other forms of data manipulation? How should a forecast be used? How do you ensure that your forecast is reliable? How accurate does it need to be? How should you deal with risk and uncertainty What is the best way to organize a forecast process? Do you need multiple forecasts? What changes should be made to other performance management processes to facilitate good forecasting? Future Ready is an invaluable guide for practicing managers and a source of insight and inspiration to leaders looking for better ways of doing things and to students of the science and craft of management. Praise for Future Ready Will make a difference to the way you think about forecasting going forward —Howard Green, Group Controller Unilever PLC Great analogies and stories are combined with rock solid theory in a language that even the most reading-averse manager will love from page one —Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President Performance Management Development at StatoilHydro A timely addition to the growing research on management planning and performance measurement. —Dr. Charles T. Horngren, Edmund G. Littlefield Professor of Accounting Emeritus Stanford University and author of many standard texts including Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Introduction to Management Accounting, and Financial Accounting In the area of Forecasting, it is the best book in the market. —Fritz Roemer. Leader of Enterprise Performance Executive Advisory Program, the Hackett Group |
| fp&a variance analysis: The Financial Compass: Navigating the Depths of Accounts and Finance Anis Mia, 2024-05-11 Dive into the intricate world of finance and regulation with 'Navigating the Financial Landscape,' a comprehensive guide that illuminates the multifaceted realm of financial management and regulatory frameworks. From capital budgeting and investment decisions to market regulation and compliance management, this book offers an in-depth exploration of key concepts, strategies, and best practices essential for navigating the dynamic landscape of global finance. Whether you're a seasoned financial professional seeking to deepen your understanding or a newcomer looking to grasp the fundamentals, this book provides invaluable insights and practical guidance to help you thrive in today's complex financial environment. Discover the tools, techniques, and insights needed to make informed decisions, manage risks, and drive organizational success in an ever-evolving financial landscape. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Basics of Financial Reporting & Analysis for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses Norman Oro, 2015-05-20 This ebook is an introduction to the essentials of the finance function within a private business. Specifically, it is intended to be a modestly priced overview for those who have limited experience with financial reports and are considering or already running a privately-held small to medium-sized business. It would also serve as a useful resource for finance people working in such companies. This book is written to impart a solid general understanding of financial reporting and analysis to help the reader realize their business goals. The text assumes a general knowledge of finance, as well as an understanding of high school level math and statistics. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management Jack Alexander, 2018-05-08 Critical insights for savvy financial analysts Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management is the essential desk reference for CFOs, FP&A professionals, investment banking professionals, and equity research analysts. With thought-provoking discussion and refreshing perspective, this book provides insightful reference for critical areas that directly impact an organization’s effectiveness. From budgeting and forecasting, analysis, and performance management, to financial communication, metrics, and benchmarking, these insights delve into the cornerstones of business and value drivers. Dashboards, graphs, and other visual aids illustrate complex concepts and provide reference at a glance, while the author’s experience as a CFO, educator, and general manager leads to comprehensive and practical analytical techniques for real world application. Financial analysts are under constant pressure to perform at higher and higher levels within the realm of this consistently challenging function. Though areas ripe for improvement abound, true resources are scarce—until now. This book provides real-world guidance for analysts ready to: Assess performance of FP&A function and develop improvement program Improve planning and forecasting with new and provocative thinking Step up your game with leading edge analytical tools and practical solutions Plan, analyze and improve critical business and value drivers Build analytical capability and effective presentation of financial information Effectively evaluate capital investments in uncertain times The most effective analysts are those who are constantly striving for improvement, always seeking new solutions, and forever in pursuit of enlightening resources with real, useful information. Packed with examples, practical solutions, models, and novel approaches, Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management is an invaluable addition to the analyst’s professional library. Access to a website with many of the tools introduced are included with the purchase of the book. Please see About the Website page for access instructions. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Ebook: Managerial Accounting - Global Edition Ronald Hilton, David Platt, 2014-09-16 We are pleased to present this Global Edition, which has been developed specifically to acquaint students of business with the fundamental tools of managerial accounting and to promote their understanding of the dramatic ways in which business is changing. The emphasis is on teaching students to use accounting information to best manage an organization. Each chapter is written around a realistic business or focus company that guides the reader through the topics of that chapter. There is significant coverage of contemporary topics such as activity-based costing, target costing, the value chain, customer profitability analysis, and throughput costing while also including traditional topics such as job-order costing, budgeting, and performance evaluation. Many of the real-world examples in the Management Accounting Practice boxes have been revised and updated to make them more current and several new examples have been added. This Global Edition has been adapted to meet the needs of courses outside the United States and does not align with the instructor and student resources available with the U.S. edition. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Corporate Finance: Tools for Managing Financial Resources Cybellium, 2024-09-01 Welcome to the forefront of knowledge with Cybellium, your trusted partner in mastering the cutting-edge fields of IT, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Business, Economics and Science. Designed for professionals, students, and enthusiasts alike, our comprehensive books empower you to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital world. * Expert Insights: Our books provide deep, actionable insights that bridge the gap between theory and practical application. * Up-to-Date Content: Stay current with the latest advancements, trends, and best practices in IT, Al, Cybersecurity, Business, Economics and Science. Each guide is regularly updated to reflect the newest developments and challenges. * Comprehensive Coverage: Whether you're a beginner or an advanced learner, Cybellium books cover a wide range of topics, from foundational principles to specialized knowledge, tailored to your level of expertise. Become part of a global network of learners and professionals who trust Cybellium to guide their educational journey. www.cybellium.com |
| fp&a variance analysis: The Complete Guide to Start-up Funding Mehul Mehta, 2023-03-24 Funding the start-up is one of the biggest challenge for the founders. Various start-ups fail in funding for varied reasons and despite the excellent business ideas and products, the founders are not able to get the funding and fulfil their dreams! This book is not merely a book, but a crash course on start-up funding, where all the practical and critical aspects of start-up funding, and highly specialized guidance about the start-up funding are presented in lucid language. It will be quite useful for the founders, start-up aspirants, start-up advisors, mentors, CA, CPA, CS, CMA, lawyers, financial consultants etc., to deep-dive into the world of start-up funding. The book contains all the aspects of start-up funding such as: • Various forms of business entities and most suitable one for start-ups • Various sources of funding and financial instruments for start-ups • How to assess the financial requirements of start-ups • Understanding and evaluating financial statements and start-up metrics • Understanding various start-up specific terms • Various types of investors in start-up ecosystem • Understanding crucial aspects of equity, debt and hybrid funding • Designing effective funding strategy • Finding out the investors, funding process and effectively closing deals with investors • Business plan, pitch-deck, financial model, and valuation • Practical example of financial model • Effectively closing due diligence process • Evaluating the Term sheet • Legal documentation and various agreements • Various investment rounds and investors’ exit • Debt instruments and debt funding process • And many more practical aspects! |
| fp&a variance analysis: Financial Management Jack Alexander, 2024-01-31 A comprehensive and insightful approach enabling finance mangers to contribute to business performance and valuation In Financial Management: Partner in Driving Performance and Value, experienced financial executive and consultant Jack Alexander delivers a fresh, new take on improving performance and creating shareholder value for CFOs, controllers, C-suite executives, and FP&A professionals. In the book, you’ll learn about best practices in operational and strategic planning, forecasting, enterprise performance management, business valuation, capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, developing finance talent, supporting growth, and more. Frameworks for dealing with the pace of change and level of uncertainty in today’s environment are also provided, including scenario planning, business agility and monitoring external forces. The book provides actionable insights and practical tools for finance professionals to contribute as trusted advisors and business partners. The author offers free access to financial models in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint templates on the accompanying website, as well as: Expanded and enhanced content from the author’s widely read previous works Models, illustrations, examples, and dashboards Anecdotes and stories drawn from the author’s 45-year-long career in financial leadership Perfect for CFOs, controllers, financial executives, financial planning and analysis professionals, and accounting managers, Financial Management is also the ideal desk reference for treasurers, strategic planners, Certified Public Accountants, and equity research analysts. It’s an essential and timely resource for financial leaders everywhere. |
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| fp&a variance analysis: Using Excel for Business Analysis Danielle Stein Fairhurst, 2015-05-18 This is a guide to building financial models for business proposals, to evaluate opportunities, or to craft financial reports. It covers the principles and best practices of financial modelling, including the Excel tools, formulas, and functions to master, and the techniques and strategies necessary to eliminate errors. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Applied Corporate Finance Aswath Damodaran, 2014-10-27 Aswath Damodaran, distinguished author, Professor of Finance, and David Margolis, Teaching Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business, has delivered the newest edition of Applied Corporate Finance. This readable text provides the practical advice students and practitioners need rather than a sole concentration on debate theory, assumptions, or models. Like no other text of its kind, Applied Corporate Finance, 4th Edition applies corporate finance to real companies. It now contains six real-world core companies to study and follow. Business decisions are classified for students into three groups: investment, financing, and dividend decisions. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Academic and Educational Entrepreneurship Mehtap Aldogan Eklund, Gabrielle Wanzenried, 2022-10-17 The editors and authors of this textbook introduce the relatively new subject of “academic and educational entrepreneurship” from a holistic viewpoint. Following a structured approach suitable for the classroom, the book opens with a concise introduction to the theories and schools of thoughts in the context of academic and educational entrepreneurship. It then reveals seven scientifically developed key aspects (including sustainability, internationalization, and cultural components) in order to be a successful academic and educational entrepreneur. After the theoretical background, the authors, who are the doyens of academic and educational entrepreneurship, share their insights and professional experiences with the readers by demonstrating the impact and relevance of the theoretical concepts to the actual entrepreneurial experience. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Python for Finance Yves J. Hilpisch, 2018-12-05 The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial applications and interactive financial analytics. Using practical examples throughout the book, author Yves Hilpisch also shows you how to develop a full-fledged framework for Monte Carlo simulation-based derivatives and risk analytics, based on a large, realistic case study. Much of the book uses interactive IPython Notebooks. |
| fp&a variance analysis: The Essential CFO Bruce P. Nolop, 2012-03-16 Discover the power of the CFO's role in delivering shareholder value During the past decade, the CFO role has expanded dramatically in its breadth, complexity, and criticality. Filled with proven strategies, best practices, and keen insights, The Essential CFO describes how today's CFOs are responding to their expanded roles within both public and private companies. With straightforward and pragmatic guidance, author Bruce Nolop shows how CFOs are partnering with CEOs to deliver shareholder value by articulating a strategic plan, determining capital allocations, managing the capital structure, driving financial performance, and implementing strategic transactions. Covers how CFOs are establishing robust accounting and risk management processes and effectively communicating with both external and internal constituencies Looks at the role of the CFO in transforming financial organizations to drive effectiveness and efficiencies Examines how CFOs can develop talent with the experience, expertise, and leadership skills to meet the challenges of the future Written from a balanced, top-down perspective of the modern CFO, The Essential CFO provides you with practical prescriptions for executing impactful corporate finance strategies. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Cost Accounting Fundamentals Steven M Bragg, 2022-02-23 Cost accounting is an essential management tool that can uncover profitability improvements and provide support for key business decisions. Cost Accounting Fundamentals shows how to improve a business with constraint analysis, target costing, capital budgeting, price setting, and cost of quality analysis. The book also addresses the essential tasks of inventory valuation and job costing, and shows how to create a cost collection system for these activities. In short, this book contains the essential tools needed to foster more profitable decision-making by management. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Create Value As a Finance Business Partner Anders Liu-Lindberg, Henriette Fynsk, 2018-11-25 |
| fp&a variance analysis: Advanced Modelling in Finance using Excel and VBA Mary Jackson, Mike Staunton, 2006-08-30 This new and unique book demonstrates that Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance. Advanced Modelling in Finance provides a comprehensive look at equities, options on equities and options on bonds from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. The book adopts a step-by-step approach to understanding the more sophisticated aspects of Excel macros and VBA programming, showing how these programming techniques can be used to model and manipulate financial data, as applied to equities, bonds and options. The book is essential for financial practitioners who need to develop their financial modelling skill sets as there is an increase in the need to analyse and develop ever more complex 'what if' scenarios. Specifically applies Excel and VBA to the financial markets Packaged with a CD containing the software from the examples throughout the book Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. |
| fp&a variance analysis: The Synergy Solution Mark Sirower, Jeff Weirens, 2022-03-15 The new M&A bible. Few actions can change the value of a company—and its competitive future—as quickly and dramatically as an acquisition. Yet most companies fail to create shareholder value from these deals, and in many cases they destroy it. It doesn't have to be this way. In The Synergy Solution, Deloitte's Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens show acquirers how to develop and execute an M&A strategy—end to end—that not only avoids the pitfalls that so many companies fall into but also creates real, long-term shareholder value. This strategy includes how to: Become a prepared always on acquirer Test the investment thesis and DCF valuation of a deal Plan for a successful Announcement Day, and properly communicate synergy promises to investors and other stakeholders Realize those promised synergies through integration planning and post-close execution Manage change and build a new, combined organization Sirower and Weirens provide invaluable background to those considering M&A, laying out the issues they have to consider, how to analyze them, and how to plan and execute the deal effectively. They also show those who have already started the process of M&A how to maximize their chances of success. There's an art and a science to getting mergers and acquisitions right, and this powerful book provides the insights and strategies acquirers need to find success at every stage of an often complex and perilous process. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Profitability Analysis with SAP S/4hana Kathrin Schmalzing, 2020-11-25 Whether you're running account-based or costing-based CO-PA, this is your one-stop shop for profitability analysis with SAP S/4HANA! Get the step-by-step instructions you need for configuring master data, operating concerns, value flows + and setting up your system. Then run your profitability operations and master both planning and reporting. + sentence about running profitability operations, from this to that. With this guide to CO-PA, you're ready for SAP S/4HANA!-- |
| fp&a variance analysis: Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel Gordon S. Linoff, 2010-09-16 Useful business analysis requires you to effectively transform data into actionable information. This book helps you use SQL and Excel to extract business information from relational databases and use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, produce results, and more. Each chapter explains when and why to perform a particular type of business analysis in order to obtain useful results, how to design and perform the analysis using SQL and Excel, and what the results should look like. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Optimization Methods in Finance Gerard Cornuejols, Reha Tütüncü, 2006-12-21 Optimization models play an increasingly important role in financial decisions. This is the first textbook devoted to explaining how recent advances in optimization models, methods and software can be applied to solve problems in computational finance more efficiently and accurately. Chapters discussing the theory and efficient solution methods for all major classes of optimization problems alternate with chapters illustrating their use in modeling problems of mathematical finance. The reader is guided through topics such as volatility estimation, portfolio optimization problems and constructing an index fund, using techniques such as nonlinear optimization models, quadratic programming formulations and integer programming models respectively. The book is based on Master's courses in financial engineering and comes with worked examples, exercises and case studies. It will be welcomed by applied mathematicians, operational researchers and others who work in mathematical and computational finance and who are seeking a text for self-learning or for use with courses. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Accounting and Finance Policies and Procedures Rose Hightower, 2008-07-21 Policies and procedures are the foundation of internal controls for organizations. Taking a complicated subject and breaking it into manageable components, this book enables you to hit the ground running and significantly accelerate your completion of a solid policies and procedures program. Comprehensive and practical, this useful book provides you with sample documents you can personalize and customize to meet your company's needs. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Financial Strategy for Public Managers Sharon Kioko, Justin Marlowe, 2017-09-07 Financial Strategy for Public Managers is a new generation textbook for financial management in the public sector. It offers a thorough, applied, and concise introduction to the essential financial concepts and analytical tools that today's effective public servants need to know. It starts at the beginning and assumes no prior knowledge or experience in financial management. Throughout the text, Kioko and Marlowe emphasize how financial information can and should inform every aspect of public sector strategy, from routine procurement decisions to budget preparation to program design to major new policy initiatives. They draw upon dozens of real-world examples, cases, and applied problems to bring that relationship between information and strategy to life. Unlike other public financial management texts, the authors also integrate foundational principles across the government, non-profit, and hybrid/for-benefit sectors. Coverage includes basic principles of accounting and financial reporting, preparing and analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, and the process and politics of budget preparation. The text also includes several large case studies appropriate for class discussion and/or graded assignments. |
| fp&a variance analysis: 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget Wise Bread Writers, The Writers of Wise Bread, 2009-01-01 A treasury of top-selected submissions to the popular personal finance blog WiseBread.com shares insights on how to enjoy life while living responsibly, in a resource that organizes entries under such headers as shopping in bulk, saving money while going green, and reducing one's mortgage and rent costs. Original. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Profit First Mike Michalowicz, 2017-02-21 Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel Timothy R. Mayes, Todd M. Shank, 1996 Start mastering the tool that finance professionals depend upon every day. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL covers all the topics you'll see in a corporate finance course: financial statements, budgets, the Market Security Line, pro forma statements, cost of capital, equities, and debt. Plus, it's easy-to-read and full of study tools that will help you succeed in class. |
| fp&a variance analysis: How to Measure Anything Douglas W. Hubbard, 2010-03-25 Now updated with new research and even more intuitive explanations, a demystifying explanation of how managers can inform themselves to make less risky, more profitable business decisions This insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure those things in your own business that, until now, you may have considered immeasurable, including customer satisfaction, organizational flexibility, technology risk, and technology ROI. Adds even more intuitive explanations of powerful measurement methods and shows how they can be applied to areas such as risk management and customer satisfaction Continues to boldly assert that any perception of immeasurability is based on certain popular misconceptions about measurement and measurement methods Shows the common reasoning for calling something immeasurable, and sets out to correct those ideas Offers practical methods for measuring a variety of intangibles Adds recent research, especially in regards to methods that seem like measurement, but are in fact a kind of placebo effect for management – and explains how to tell effective methods from management mythology Written by recognized expert Douglas Hubbard-creator of Applied Information Economics-How to Measure Anything, Second Edition illustrates how the author has used his approach across various industries and how any problem, no matter how difficult, ill defined, or uncertain can lend itself to measurement using proven methods. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Python for Finance Yuxing Yan, 2017-06-30 Learn and implement various Quantitative Finance concepts using the popular Python libraries About This Book Understand the fundamentals of Python data structures and work with time-series data Implement key concepts in quantitative finance using popular Python libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib A step-by-step tutorial packed with many Python programs that will help you learn how to apply Python to finance Who This Book Is For This book assumes that the readers have some basic knowledge related to Python. However, he/she has no knowledge of quantitative finance. In addition, he/she has no knowledge about financial data. What You Will Learn Become acquainted with Python in the first two chapters Run CAPM, Fama-French 3-factor, and Fama-French-Carhart 4-factor models Learn how to price a call, put, and several exotic options Understand Monte Carlo simulation, how to write a Python program to replicate the Black-Scholes-Merton options model, and how to price a few exotic options Understand the concept of volatility and how to test the hypothesis that volatility changes over the years Understand the ARCH and GARCH processes and how to write related Python programs In Detail This book uses Python as its computational tool. Since Python is free, any school or organization can download and use it. This book is organized according to various finance subjects. In other words, the first edition focuses more on Python, while the second edition is truly trying to apply Python to finance. The book starts by explaining topics exclusively related to Python. Then we deal with critical parts of Python, explaining concepts such as time value of money stock and bond evaluations, capital asset pricing model, multi-factor models, time series analysis, portfolio theory, options and futures. This book will help us to learn or review the basics of quantitative finance and apply Python to solve various problems, such as estimating IBM's market risk, running a Fama-French 3-factor, 5-factor, or Fama-French-Carhart 4 factor model, estimating the VaR of a 5-stock portfolio, estimating the optimal portfolio, and constructing the efficient frontier for a 20-stock portfolio with real-world stock, and with Monte Carlo Simulation. Later, we will also learn how to replicate the famous Black-Scholes-Merton option model and how to price exotic options such as the average price call option. Style and approach This book takes a step-by-step approach in explaining the libraries and modules in Python, and how they can be used to implement various aspects of quantitative finance. Each concept is explained in depth and supplemented with code examples for better understanding. |
| fp&a variance analysis: The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting Dr Steve Morlidge, 2017-11-01 It is difficult to think of a business process that is as widely unpopular, dysfunctional and discredited as traditional budgeting - yet over a decade after the creation of the Beyond Budgeting movement, many business people are unaware of its existence. And many of those that have heard of it find the Beyond Budgeting ideas difficult to grasp because they have been conditioned by experience to think in a very narrow way about the process of management. This book fills in these gaps in awareness and understanding by answering the question ‘what is Beyond Budgeting?’ in a clear and succinct way to help you make informed choices about the way that you run your business, as an alternative to blindly copying your predecessors. Amongst the things you will discover are: How the financial operating model used to organise and run the affairs of an enterprise impacts many aspects of corporate life, not just the level of business performance The universal law of complexity that explains why traditional budgeting will always fail to deliver what it promises: predictable performance. How the Beyond Budgeting process model is better equipped to deal with the complexity of modern organisational life and the uncertainty of the world Why and how an organisation has to be designed to complement the processes used to plan and control its activities. How to bring about change The goal is to help build healthier, more adaptive organisations, better able to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities thrown up by the modern world. |
| fp&a variance analysis: CMA Part 1: Financial Reporting, Planning, Performance and Control Nathan Liao, 2016-05-09 Study for the Certified Management Accountant Part-One exam with this exam prep textbook. You will learn:Section A - External Financial Reporting Decisions: You'll learn to master Financial Statements, and Recognition, Measurement, Valuation and Disclosure.Section B - Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting: You'll learn to master Strategic Planning, Budgeting Concepts, Forecasting Techniques, Budget Methodologies, Annual Profit Plan and Supporting Schedules, Top-level Planning and Analysis.Section C - Performance Management: You'll learn to master Cost and Variance Measures, Responsibility Centers and Reporting Segments, and Performance Measures.Section D - Cost Management: You'll learn to master Measurement Concepts, Costing Systems, Overhead Costs, Supply Chain Management, Business Process Improvement.Section E - Internal Controls: You'll learn to master Governance, Risk and Compliance, Internal Auditing, and Systems Controls and Security Measures.Examples & Illustrations: Throughout the textbook you'll find illustrations and examples to help you learn and assimilate the content in a visual way. |
| fp&a variance analysis: Python for Finance Yves Hilpisch, 2014-12-11 The financial industry has adopted Python at a tremendous rate recently, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. This hands-on guide helps both developers and quantitative analysts get started with Python, and guides you through the most important aspects of using Python for quantitative finance. Using practical examples through the book, author Yves Hilpisch also shows you how to develop a full-fledged framework for Monte Carlo simulation-based derivatives and risk analytics, based on a large, realistic case study. Much of the book uses interactive IPython Notebooks, with topics that include: Fundamentals: Python data structures, NumPy array handling, time series analysis with pandas, visualization with matplotlib, high performance I/O operations with PyTables, date/time information handling, and selected best practices Financial topics: mathematical techniques with NumPy, SciPy and SymPy such as regression and optimization; stochastics for Monte Carlo simulation, Value-at-Risk, and Credit-Value-at-Risk calculations; statistics for normality tests, mean-variance portfolio optimization, principal component analysis (PCA), and Bayesian regression Special topics: performance Python for financial algorithms, such as vectorization and parallelization, integrating Python with Excel, and building financial applications based on Web technologies |
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