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All your Budgeting and Forecasting questions answered: the Sequel!

FP&A Today

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The Importance of Budgeting and Forecasting

The speakers discuss the significance of budgeting and forecasting for businesses, emphasizing the need to know where you're going and how historical data and forecasting can help identify profits, costs, and fluctuations in expenses. They also address the challenges faced by consulting firms in budgeting based on historic run rates, pipeline projections, and hiring needs. The chapter concludes with the role of FP&A in finding a balance between top-down and bottoms-up approaches.

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