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What macro forces will truly move the economic needle over the next few years? Founder and expert Nicholas Pardini shares his insights......

Discover how adopting agile methodologies can give your FP&A operations a competitive edge, ensuring your business stays ahead in the rapidly evolving corporate landscape....

In this article, I share insights on how you can identify and nurture top-performing members of your finance team through the ‘Great Resignation’....

Risk management is critically important. If you look at SVB, the bank failures, Signature Bank, and Silvergate, these are all risk management breakdowns. You're buying long-duration assets with short-duration needs for liquidity without the ability to liquidate easily....

With rumors of a potential recession hitting the US over the next 12 months, it’s no surprise that a burning topic in finance right now is how to survive an economic downturn....

Understanding how to optimize cash is very important, especially in today’s current market. If you know how to optimize cash flow in a business, you’ll be in a much healthier position financially with more accurate forecasts....

The mission of FP&A is to drive the right strategic choices in the company. Although FP&A professionals spend a lot of time working with data, crunching numbers, and putting together management presentations, the role is really about identifying strategic opportunities and driving growth....

Every single day, I see news headlines related to AI. Every single day, all over my LinkedIn feed and my Apple News feed. But there's one particular story that really caught my attention last week. It was about this lawyer In New York....

Everybody is currently struggling with resources. Because of inflation and a generally unstable environment, you can't really just go out and hire people. I'm going to talk about how you can optimize your current team and make sure you can cover more ground with the teams that you already have....

Lots of FP&A teams have a hero culture. It feels like this heroic effort of brute force to get to the finish line and meet deadlines. And then we get, “Thank you, once again, for working through the weekend and all night to allow us to reach our deadline on time.”...

More and more CFOs are becoming strategic thinkers, equipping them with the tools necessary to evolve into effective business partners. But how can the modern CFO transition into a business partner to the CEO?...