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The article offers information on how to upgrade financial planning and analysis (FP&A) work process. Topics discussed include the two important areas of FP&A which are company culture and work process, and steps to improve the current process that include approval of internal orders, sending of actuals to marketing, and sending of budgets to finance. Also discussed are the benefits of a remodeled process such as stewardship, less overspending, and higher productivity.

The article focuses on Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Chief of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Ash Sharma, who will lead a roundtable discussion at the Association of Finance Professionals (AFP) Leadership Summit to be held on May 19-20, 2015 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Topics covered are the FP&A professionals' leadership qualities of insight, influence and impact on top of accounting, finance and business management skills and the need for the FP&A culture to be pervasive in the company.

An interview is presented with Zurich, Switzerland-based Swiss Re managing director Andreas Schertzinger, who is chairman of the 2015 Association of Finance Professionals Financial Planning and Analysis (AFP FP & A) Leadership Summit Task Force. Topics covered are his job responsibilities of performance management, managing new business, scenario planning, and establishing an end-to-end financial planning system. It also mentions his objective of creating a network of European practitioners.