Is Your Forecast Just a Target in Disguise? | Alejandro Hellmund
An ambitious target is not the problem. The problem begins when Finance is expected to defend it as a forecast the business can actually deliver.
What happens when leadership decides the number before Finance has built the operating forecast? In this episode of FP&A Today, Sarah Schlott speaks with Alejandro Hellmund, Financial Analyst at Blue Eyed Lending, about the pressure to make predetermined targets work, drawing on his experience across financial planning, private equity and investment projects where expectations, available funding and operational reality do not always align.
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