Why is XP&A important?

In our view, XP&A can add great value to the planning processes. Also, we think there are multiple angles to look at XP&A without using all the (sometimes confusing) terms. First of all, we think it adds value to do the planning not only from the finance team, but with multiple teams in your organization. Also, the planning should be done together in order to you the knowledge, experience and strengths of all those people and teams.

Furthermore, as also stated below in the Board Schema, we support the thought to combine multiple planning processes into one integrated process and environment. In other words, budgeting, (strategic) planning, (driver based) forecasting and scenario modeling all-in-one to make the best use of all data and information available without moving data between all kinds of systems and databases.