When I think of the culture of a company, the first thing that comes to mind is the picture inside the walls of that organization. Do they value each employee? Is leadership honest? Are goals transparent?
It seems as though, throughout this past year, everyone has been hyping their successful pivot from in-person to virtual training. Since early 2020, trainers and training companies alike have invested in technology they touted as being better than everyone else’s.
By 2030, every Baby Boomer on the planet will be 65 years of age or older. If every Boomer were to retire at 65, that would mean an entire generation has left the workforce. Of course, not every person in this generation will stop working; however, according to Pew Research, COVID greatly accelerated retirements in 2021.
The future of FP&A will not be slow and static. FP&A will borrow from many of the traditional planning and analysis processes and will make them more dynamic and accessible to companies of all sizes.
I did an interview with Jamila Souffrant pre-COVID (in 2018 to be exact) that I hadn’t previously shared. Jamila found me having stumbled upon my TEDx talk. Coincidentally, it turns out we were both featured by CBS as part of a series on financial independence they had done just weeks earlier.
I recently spoke with Anthony Castro of the CFO Leader Podcast about how CFOs can architect and construct better financial models. We also chatted about tips to becoming a better review of financial models prepared by others.
I’ve never been one to enjoy large networking events. For years, I’d gone to conferences, masterminds, fundraisers, and roundtables. And while these in-person meetings and experiences allowed me to meet new people, they rarely facilitated deeper connections.
There are a lot of avoidable problems in the finance field and I’d like to address just a few within the context of financial and business modeling. Maybe you can relate and my bringing attention to them will alleviate or eliminate some of your frustrations.
A few weeks ago, I was a guest speaker for three student groups at Big Ten universities. The young people who participated were hungry — curious about how to navigate their careers, what kind of companies to work with, what finance and FP&A professionals do and the future of the profession.
When a University of Chicago professor I admire wrote a book about artificial intelligence (AI), I was eager to read it. An accomplished authority on what’s next in the world of technology, Nick Polson is educating the world on how humans and computers will work together. Being in a field that relies on human intelligence…
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