Financial Consolidation: Rigor Restored
Mainaa Lamri (Beyond Plans) explores how financial consolidation is evolving, and how Anaplan FCR brings back speed, reliability, and autonomy to finance teams.
DiscoverP&L Financial Modeling:
Expert Support to Get the Best Out of Anaplan
Break free from the limits of Excel and rigid cycles. With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, P&L financial modeling becomes collaborative, predictive, and scenario-driven. Improve data reliability, accelerate decision-making, and gain strategic visibility.
Beyond Plans:
FP&A Consulting & Industry Expertise
Each organization has its own revenue, cost, and allocation logic. Beyond Plans combines FP&A consulting and industry expertise to design robust P&L financial models, integrated with your ERP/BI systems and tailored to your challenges, turning your forecasts into true performance drivers.
P&L Financial Modeling:
The Essentials
P&L financial modeling with Beyond Plans and Anaplan brings together everything you need to make your forecasts reliable: data centralization, ERP/BI integration, financial what-if scenarios, rolling forecasts, and collaborative reporting.
Context
Data silos, time-consuming Excel processes, and slow decision-making weaken your performance.
Solution
FP&A consulting + Anaplan: driver-based P&L models, ERP/BI integration, and sustainable adoption.
Key Benefits
Prévisions plus fiables, décisions accélérées et gouvernance FP&A renforcée.
From Excel P&L to real-time scenarios
Many finance teams still rely on Excel, data silos, and slow cycles. The result: a lack of scenarios, no traceability, and delayed decisions. Forecasts are fragile, and FP&A governance suffers as a result.
Our approach
FP&A consulting + interactive P&L models + integration & adoption: Beyond Plans creates driver-based P&L models that align revenue, expenses, and net income. We integrate ERP/BI, secure your data, and enable rolling forecasts and financial scenarios. Adoption and training are provided by Lemon Learning.
Key benefits for the finance department
Enhanced forecast accuracy, faster decisions, and complete traceability. With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, you can manage P&L in conjunction with balance sheets and cash flow for robust FP&A governance and informed trade-offs.
About Anaplan for Financial Modeling
Anaplan is the leading cloud platform for financial modeling and collaborative planning. It integrates financial scenarios, rolling forecasts, and reporting. More than 2,400 companies use it to make their forecasts more reliable.
Financial Modeling FAQ
Want to modernize your financial management? Find answers to frequently asked questions about P&L financial modeling, what-if scenarios, ERP/BI integration, and Beyond Plans support to accelerate your decision-making.
What is an interactive P&L model and what is the purpose of what-if analysis?
An interactive P&L model centralizes your revenues, expenses, and margins in a cloud environment. The what-if feature allows you to instantly test the impact of assumptions (growth, costs, exchange rates, etc.) on net income, enabling you to make transparent decisions.
What data and timeframes are required for a typical deployment?
An initial operational scope can be deployed in 6 to 10 weeks. The necessary data comes from your existing ERP, BI, and reporting systems. Beyond Plans handles scoping, model design, and gradual integration for rapid gains.
How to connect ERP/BI and ensure data quality?
Anaplan integrates via standard connectors and APIs with SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, and BI tools. Beyond Plans guarantees mapping, FP&A governance, and data quality to ensure the reliability of your consolidations and automate your flows.
Can rolling forecasts, scenarios, and P&L reporting be combined?
Yes. The Anaplan model allows you to switch from a fixed budget to a dynamic rolling forecast. You can simulate financial scenarios in real time and manage collaborative, consolidated, and traceable P&L reporting for informed and rapid decision-making.
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Discover how financial modeling of P&L with Anaplan and Beyond Plans transforms your forecasts. Through a demo, we present what-if scenarios, rolling forecasts, collaborative reporting, and ERP/BI integration.
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