Financial Modeling, Planning & Analysis
l5capital delivers expert analysis of accounting and financial data that yield powerful insight into business scenarios, conditions, drivers, rates, and assumptions. Our highly experienced team uses best-in-class software tools to provide your organization the information you need to succeed.
We work with real-time data that give an accurate look into how business decisions affect today’s environment and tomorrow’s outcomes.
- Resource planning and utilization modeling
- Project summary/status modeling
- Budget/Actual/Forecast analysis
- Indirect “provisional” rates calculations
- Unallowable cost analysis
- Forward pricing models
- Capital expenditures modeling
- Balance sheet and cash flow analysis and forecast
- Bid and proposal costing
What is Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)?
In the world of business, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) plays a vital role. Serving as a key aspect of corporate finance, FP&A empowers companies to navigate through unpredictable market conditions, make well-informed strategic choices, and maintain steady progress. By combining an analysis of data with future oriented forecasts and other valuable insights, FP&A experts provide business leaders with the necessary tools to address financial obstacles effectively and seize potential advantages.
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals own the financial planning, budgeting and forecasting process at a company to inform major decisions made by the executive team and board of directors. These employees collect, prepare and analyze financial data from across the organization to create reports that provide data-driven answers to business questions.
The FP&A function is becoming increasingly forward-looking. It’s using best practices to focus not only on what happened or what’s happening but on why it’s happening and what is likely to happen in the future.
An FP&A director or analyst should be a business partner for the entire organization, working closely with various business units, and a strategic advisor to the CFO or controller. These professionals help leaders of the finance department maintain and mitigate additional costs by identifying opportunities for efficiency, savings and investment.
The role of FP&A has evolved in recent years. In the past, FP&A analysts focused on recording and reporting financial results and leveraging historical financial data to extrapolate future sales and earnings. But the flood of data available today and the technology that helps analysts use it has empowered FP&A to move from more reactive work to providing insightful predictions and analytics that directly influence the business’s direction.
FP&A is distinct from accounting in that it focuses on forward-looking data and attempts to anticipate future outcomes, while accounting reviews past and historical information to determine a company’s current financial state.