If you want to be a great FBP you’d better get good at communicating and presenting and you’d better get good at it quick‼️ Why❓ ➡️ Because one of the BIG differences between an accountant and a FBP is the ability to take a whole load of confusing data and turn it...
Have you heard of the decision paradox❓ It goes like this: 1️⃣ not enough choice people will resist you and not buy because they have no benchmark or comparison 2️⃣ too many choices people will resist you because they will be confused and overwhelmed Too little choice...
Ever wondered why you’re left out of the important discussions❓…this could be the reason 👇🏻 Commercial decisions are rarely, if ever, made based on a budget. Commercial decisions are based on: ✅ what’s happening in the market NOW, not what we budgeted for ✅ what our...
Is this part of the problem ❓ Most finance leaders say the right things. Far fewer leaders actually do what they say. Example: CFO: we’re restructuring finance and you are all FBPs now, so go our there and get involved in commercial decision making FBPs: great, we...
Is your budget process stuck in 1993 ❓ Every FD and CFO want their finance teams to: ✅ build relationships ✅ turn data [WHAT] into INSIGHTS [SO WHAT] ✅ bring numbers to life But then they continue to lead a budget process that: ❌ takes 6-9 months to complete ❌...
Love him or hate him, his latest speech is a masterclass in influence. And is Boris the only politician in the World who can pull it off this technique❓Imagine if finance had written it... "In 2019 we traded £2.4 billion with Australia with average tariffs of...
Imagine if finance had written JFK's speech... "We choose to travel 238,855 miles at 25,000 miles per hour to the second densest known satellite with which we are in synchronous rotation" Inspired? Me neither. He actually said: "We choose to go to the moon" We'll...
Email is great for admin. It is terrible for all the things a FD or CFO wants to do: ❌ Building relationships ❌ Influencing people ❌ Communicating so people listen & act ❌ Focussing on the most important things ❌ Being efficient and getting things done ➡️ So if...
Ask any marketeer and they’ll tell you the worst way to bring numbers to life…is to use a table of numbers. Why? Any more than a handful of numbers creates immediate noise and potential confusion. Too many numbers means your key message is diluted or even lost. Many...
Improve your finance reports and presentations with these 5 charts.. Ask any marketeer and they’ll tell you the worst way to bring numbers to life…is to use a table of numbers. Why? Any more than a handful of numbers creates immediate noise and potential confusion....
What's the best way to bring variances to budget to life? Stop using boring tables of numbers and try this instead… My favourite finance chart is simple text, click here’s for that video. My second favourite chart is the gap chart. I think it’s the best way to show...
Are video financial presentations only for Coca-Cola, Apple & Samsung? Actually if you’ve got 10 seconds spare here’s how you can do it too… I pulled together this presentation in about 5 minutes. Then it took me about 10 seconds to turn it into a video. It’s a...
Did you know there were 3 ways to present the exact same number? The one you pick is more important than you think... £30m This round number is great for impact and simplicity, but it could look like you made it up. So you’re more likely to be challenged on it....
Stop talking about driving performance. It may sound good, but it's killing your influence. And here's how. Finance don’t drive performance. Sales, marketing, and operations do that. If you want to drive it, go and work in one of those. Finance’s role is to help...
80-90% plus of what FBPs do is not finance business partnering. Why? Because it’s reporting, forecasting or budgeting. Which are FP&A activities. Soon to be largely taken over by robots. The future of FP&A is not business partnering. The future of FP&A is...
As finance people we probably already know that focussing the future is more important than the reporting the past. After all we can’t change the past. The problem is that finance focussing on the future often means forecasting it. And trying to get better at...
What is finance business partnering? I used to be a finance director, then I became a sales director, and I'll show you everything I learned in sales that I wished I'd known when I worked in finance. Finance business partnering is about three things: Number one,...
One of the questions I'm asked the most is: will robot takes our jobs? And I always reply with: it depends whether you're dealing data or insight. Watch the video to find out more. And if you want to future proof your career and prepare for the finance revolution,...