Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management (Wiley Finance) - Hardcover

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JACK ALEXANDER is an experienced CFO and operating executive turned consultant, author, and educator. As the founder of Jack Alexander & Associates, LLC, he provides advice to businesses across a wide range of financial and operating areas, with a focus and passion on Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Performance Management (PM). The firm also offers customized training and workshops on FP&A. He is a frequent speaker on FP&A and PM. He is the author of Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation and Financial Planning and Analysis and Performance Management, both from Wiley.

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Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management offers a comprehensive and down-to-earth guide to financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Written by Jack Alexander, a former CFO and the author of Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation, this important text is filled with illustrative examples and visual aids and provides real-world guidance for professionals responsible for assessing and improving the performance of the FP&A function. Throughout the book, Alexander includes the most current thinking and shows how to put into practice leading edge tools to plan, analyze, and improve vital business and value drivers. In addition, the text reveals what it takes to build analytical capability and to effectively present financial information.

Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management offers CFOs, FP&A professionals, investment banking professionals, and equity research analysts an important text that covers the fundamentals of finance through advanced topics and best practices. The author examines the key analytical tools and identifies the best practices in selecting key performance indicators (KPI’s) and developing effective dashboards. It provides guidance on developing projections in uncertain times including budgets, operating plans, rolling forecasts, and long-term projections. The author also presents analytical frameworks for evaluating capital investment decisions, business valuations, value drivers, and mergers and acquisitions. Insightful guidance is provided on extending FP&A to important areas including innovation, agility, human capital management and competitor analysis. Throughout the text, author Jack Alexander offers an insightful CFO perspective to the critical areas that directly impact an organization’s success.

Filled with dashboards, graphs, and other visual aids the text also includes a companion website that offers a number of illustrative performance dashboards, analysis, and Excel models that are highlighted in the book.

In today’s highly competitive environment, financial analysts must perform at higher and higher levels within the realm of their consistently challenging function. Though areas ripe for improvement abound, true resources are scarce―until now. Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management provides real-world guidance for analysts who want to excel at their profession.

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Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management offers a comprehensive and down-to-earth guide to financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Written by Jack Alexander, a former CFO and the author of Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation, this important text is filled with illustrative examples and visual aids and provides real-world guidance for professionals responsible for assessing and improving the performance of the FP&A function. Throughout the book, Alexander includes the most current thinking and shows how to put into practice leading edge tools to plan, analyze, and improve vital business and value drivers. In addition, the text reveals what it takes to build analytical capability and to effectively present financial information.

Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management offers CFOs, FP&A professionals, investment banking professionals, and equity research analysts an important text that covers the fundamentals of finance through advanced topics and best practices. The author examines the key analytical tools and identifies the best practices in selecting key performance indicators (KPI's) and developing effective dashboards. It provides guidance on developing projections in uncertain times including budgets, operating plans, rolling forecasts, and long-term projections. The author also presents analytical frameworks for evaluating capital investment decisions, business valuations, value drivers, and mergers and acquisitions. Insightful guidance is provided on extending FP&A to important areas including innovation, agility, human capital management and competitor analysis. Throughout the text, author Jack Alexander offers an insightful CFO perspective to the critical areas that directly impact an organization's success.

Filled with dashboards, graphs, and other visual aids the text also includes a companion website that offers a number of illustrative performance dashboards, analysis, and Excel models that are highlighted in the book.

In today's highly competitive environment, financial analysts must perform at higher and higher levels within the realm of their consistently challenging function. Though areas ripe for improvement abound, true resources are scarce until now. Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management provides real-world guidance for analysts who want to excel at their profession.