FP&A Episodes

Send us Fan Mail Episode # 158: A hotel room empty tonight is not “lost demand” on a spreadsheet. It’s gone forever. That one reality makes hospitality one of the clearest places where FP&A has to operate in real time, not on last month’s variance deck. We start with the big strategic priorities: building demand sensing forecasts that update with signals like booking pace, cancellations, group sales pipelines, local events, weather, transportation constraints, competitor pricing, and dig...

Send us Fan Mail Episode # 157: We walk through how we build an FP&A training plan that develops individual talent while raising the effectiveness of the whole finance organization. That starts with a formal development strategy, not ad hoc learning squeezed in when time allows. We talk about the capabilities that separate high-performing FP&A teams from strong reporting teams: business acumen, critical thinking, stakeholder management, leadership, decision support, and financial stor...