The Future of Financial Planning and Analysis

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The future of financial planning and analysis

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CFO Research conducted a global survey of 335 senior finance executives, sponsored by SAP.


Objective: Gain a better understanding of how finance leaders aspire to support business decision makers in the pursuit of value creation—and how leading-edge financial planning and business analysis capabilities factor into those aspirations.


5 Key Findings


Agility is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage.


of senior finance executives agree that, over the next two years, greater agility will become a larger source of

competitive advantage, compared with today


The appetite for actionable, real-time analysis is growing


Of finance executives state that, over the next two years, the demand for ad-‐hoc decision support and analysis from

finance is likely to increase


IT systems for FP&A are falling short of intensifying demands for real-time, ad-hoc

analysis.


say that reducing the amount of time and resources devoted to data migration and manual reconciliation

connected with FP&A would yield substantial, measurable financial benefit to their company.


Tight integration between financial-planning systems and core ERP supports more effective

decision making.


Who report that their financial planning systems are very tightly integrated with core ERP systems, confirm that they are contributing to finance’s ability to support

decision making.


Pressure on finance teams to improve their contribution to high-value planning and analysis

is increasing.


Agree that the growing speed and availability of financial analysis and reporting will increase pressure to ensure that

decision makers fully understand the analyses they receive.


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