FP&A Fast Track: Resources to help you get your FP&A career on the fast track
FP&A Fast Track is a newsletter for FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) professionals who want to accelerate their careers. It provides resources, including summaries of interviews with FP&A experts and thought leaders, summaries of important business books, and practical tips and tools you can apply immediately to enhance your FP&A career.
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📩 (FPAFT) The Pause: Back on the Fast Track - 📊: October 7, 2024
⏳This is a 4 minute read📚 Hey Fast Tracker! If it seems like you haven't seen a message from me in a while, you're not imagining it. I haven't sent out a newsletter or recorded a new podcast episode in a few months. I took a pause from both because my fiancé was diagnosed with breast cancer in April. That completely reshuffled my priorities. Good news, though. After a couple of surgeries, she is cancer-free. She still has at least one more surgery to go, and we are optimistic that once she...
READ POST📩 (FPAFT) 🔓 FP&A Communication Tips from John Sanchez 📊: June 26, 2024
⏳This is a 3 minute read📚 Hey Fast Tracker! We have a new streamlined format for the newsletter. We're going to keep the newsletter to around 3 minutes of reading and include links to take you to longer-form content, like full articles, complete book summaries, podcast episodes, and more. You'll still have access to all the same stuff, but through links instead of a long newsletter. We hope you like the new format. Expert Insights: 💡 This is usually where I share highlights from my own...
READ POST📩 (FPAFT) 🔓 FP&A Career Development Tips from Asif Masani 📊: June 20, 2024
⏳This is a 8-minute read📚 Hey Fast Tracker! In this edition… 1️⃣ Expert Insights: 💡 My guest on the FP&A Fast Track podcast this week is Asif Masani. Asif has over 13 years of experience in finance and FP&A, including positions at Citibank, Pfizer, and EY, and he now focuses on training and educating FP&A professionals. 2️⃣ Brain Snacks Book Bites: This week's book bites are from “Tribal Leadership” by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright. Have you ever wondered what it would be like...
READ POST📩 (FPAFT) 🔓 Unlock Financial Projection Secrets with Carl Seidman 📊: June 13, 2024
⏳This is a 7-minute read📚 Hey Fast Tracker! In this edition… 1️⃣ Expert Insights: 💡 Carl Seidman is my podcast guest in this week's episode of FP&A Fast Track. With a background anchored in the Big Four and extensive experience in distressed business consulting, Carl now channels his expertise into helping companies as a fractional CFO and FP&A advisor. 2️⃣ Brain Snacks Book Bites: Your Exit Map by John F. Dini 🧠 In FP&A, we are often tapped to evaluate acquisition targets. Understanding how...
READ POST📩 (FPAFT) FP&A Fast Track Newsletter 📊: June 8, 2024
⏳ This is a 9 minute read 📚 Hey Gang! In this edition… 1️⃣ Expert Insights: 💡 Do you know THE 4 QUESTIONS you must ask whenever you're thinking about using a graph or table? This week, I worked with the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) recording a video for the Data Visualization chapter of their FPAC certification exam review course and I'm sharing the 4 questions here. 2️⃣ Brain Snacks Book Bites:🧠 If you want to be on a career fast track, you need to understand people and how...
READ POST📩 (FPAFT) FP&A Fast Track Newsletter 📊: May 30, 2024
⏳This is a 7 minute read📚 Hey FP&A Fast Trackers! In this edition… 1️⃣ Expert Insights: 💡 Ever wonder how being data-driven can improve your FP&A decision making and career? This week's FP&A Fast Track podcase guest, Andrew Childress, transitioned from being an FP&A practitioner to helping FP&A professionals find the right tools to do their jobs better. 2️⃣ Brain Snacks Book Bites:🧠 In FP&A, we aren't tasked with being designers, but understanding some basics of what makes something "user...
READ POSTA joke with a life lesson
Hey Fast Trackers! I don’t usually e-mail you outside of the newsletter, but I read this joke recently and I had to share it with you. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. After a good meal and a bottle of wine they lay down for the night, and went to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see." Watson replied, "I see millions and millions of stars." "What does that tell you?" Watson pondered for...
READ POSTFP&A Fast Track (FPAFT) Newsletter: May 23, 2024
⏳This is a 7 minute read📚 Hey Fast Trackers! In this edition… 🧠 Wisdom from Nicolas Boucher: 🎙️ A.I. for finance expert Nicolas Boucher brings 15 years experience to his training tailored to FP&A professionals. 📚 Book Bites from “A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence" by Michael Wooldridge. A concise history of A.I. and some things everyone should know about it, in less than 13 minutes! ⏱️ 💬 Weekly Roundup: A summary of some of the key developments in FP&A this week, inlcuding a somewhat...
READ POSTFP&A Fast Track Newsletter: May 18, 2024
⏳This is a 6 minute read📚 Hey FP&A Fast Trackers! We had a hiccup in sending out the newsletter, so if you're getting this for a second time ignore it and mea culpa. Our error, though we don't know what went wrong. If this is the only newsletter you received from us this week, we're glad we did this re-send. So, let's get to the good stuff... In this edition… 1️⃣ Expert Insights: 💡 Ever wonder how finance can open doors beyond what you've imagined? Terrell Turner shares how learning basic...
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