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Insights on running the month

Most of what we have written on FP&A comes back to one question: did the month's numbers change a decision?

A variance report nobody discusses is a filing exercise. (read where we wrote it)

4Pieces from our team on the monthly cycle

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Read the monthly cycle in our team's own words

Sriram ChidambaramScenarios show what happens if the next round arrives six months late, and sensitivity shows which two or three assumptions decide whether the cash lasts.
From "How to plan your startup's funding beyond this round"
Sriram ChidambaramA close landing on the eighteenth pushes the review into the last week of the next month, so a decision about October gets taken in late November, when most of its value has gone.
From "What is FP&A?"
Karthik BeknalA useful question to ask after your next finance review: did this meeting change a single decision? If the answer is no, what happened was budgeting. Not FP&A.
From "Budgeting Is Not FP&A"
Sriram ChidambaramWhat a board actually wants is decision-quality information: something they can absorb in about thirty minutes and debate in ten.
From "Board reporting and investor reporting are not the same thing"