peak ascent: how fp&a can guide cfos to great heights

Peak Ascent: How FP&A Can Guide CFOs

to Great Heights

Adaptive Insights surveyed more than 300 global CFOs

to understand trends in finance for its CFO Indicator Q2 2016 report.

The survey took a deep dive into financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for the first time.

The results revealed a great need for FP&A teams to

become more strategic to support CFOs as they increasingly play a broader

role in guiding corporate planning and performance.

75% of CFOs want their finance teams to have a significant to strong impact on corporate planning and

strategic decision-making by 2017Only 46% of CFOs expect their teams will do this

Top 3 skillsof FP&A teams today

If the FP&A team could improve just one skill, what would CFOs want it to be?

FP&A Teams are Expected to Double Time Spent on Strategic Tasks by 2020

What can FP&A teams do to be more effective?

What One Skill Is Missing From Your FP&A Team?

of CFOs not planning to hire will implement new technology to close the gap

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Only 1 out of 4 CFOs will expand their FP&A

teams in the next 12 months

Top choices for FP&A education*:

TMore than half of CFOs are

implementing education programs for senior FP&A teams on all aspects of business

The FP&A Team of the future will be efficient, agile, highly

collaborative, and tech-savvy.

Learn more by downloading the CFO Indicator Q2 2016 Report:

www.adaptiveinsights.com/peak-ascent

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The Adaptive Insights CFO Indicator reveals what is top of mind for chief financial officers (CFOs). The Q2 2016 report surveyed 307 CFOs around the world over a period of 14 days ending July 3, 2016. As this was not a probability-based sample, calculating the theoretical margin of sampling error is not applicable.

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