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Why Most Annual Operating Plans Are DOA by Q2 (And What Smart CFOs Are Doing Instead)

July 5, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

It’s not just you—the AOP is broken. By the time your operating plan is finalized, conditions have already changed. Yet every finance team still rolls out the same rigid framework, convinced that precision equals control. But the smartest CFOs know that an AOP built for static reality won’t survive dynamic conditions. This post unpacks why […]

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The Silent Killer of FP&A Accuracy: Calendar Drift

July 3, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

There’s a silent saboteur inside every FP&A model. Not bias.Not bad inputs.Not even the politics. It’s time. Not as in timing—that’s obvious.As in calendar drift: the misalignment between when things are supposed to happen and when they actually do. At first glance, it looks like nothing. Your sales team says Q3 will close $4M.Great—you drop […]

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