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.
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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.
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5 Key Findings
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Agility is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage.
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of senior finance executives agree that, over the next two years, greater agility will become a larger source of
competitive advantage, compared with today
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The appetite for actionable, real-time analysis is growing
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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
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IT systems for FP&A are falling short of intensifying demands for real-time, ad-hoc
analysis.
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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.
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Tight integration between financial-planning systems and core ERP supports more effective
decision making.
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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.
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Pressure on finance teams to improve their contribution to high-value planning and analysis
is increasing.
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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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