A System Designed to Forget Finance: Why FP&A Ends Up Carrying the Rest in Excel
The books were closed. The audits were supported. Then the CEO asked two simple questions: which products make the most money, and which ones don’t? Nobody could answer.
Purity Kibaki was the consultant hired to implement the system that was supposed to answer them.
Purity, CPA(K), leads group reporting, consolidation and finance systems at Hatch Africa. She previously founded Zirconn Black Group. She has been the accountant closing the books, the FP&A analyst who inherited them, and the consultant building the system underneath. She and Sarah explore what happens when finance systems are…
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