Navigate Finance and Strategy with Me
Welcome to my corner of the internet! I’m a Chartered Accountant with 7+ years in audit, financial reporting, and strategic finance. And this is where I share what I’m learning.
My career has moved deliberately from technical accounting towards strategic finance, from financial statement audit to credit analysis to FP&A and business partnering. That arc shapes everything I write here. I am not describing finance from a textbook. I am writing from the inside of these disciplines, with the analytical rigour of someone who has stress-tested financial statements and the commercial instinct of someone who has had to make consequential judgements under uncertainty.
My goal is to help fellow CAs, CPAs, and finance professionals bridge the gap between compliance-based accounting and forward-looking business strategy, whether you are building FP&A skills, navigating a complex accounting standard, or working out how to move from technical finance into a leadership role.
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Recent Articles
CA Sakshi Jain | Finance & Audit | Rolling Forecasts: Why Your Annual Budget Is Obsolete by February
CA Sakshi Jain on why the static annual budget loses relevance before Q1 ends, and how rolling forecasts give finance teams a planning tool that stays connected to business reality.
CA Sakshi Jain | Finance & Audit | The CA to CFO Transition: What Nobody Tells You
CA Sakshi Jain on the three shifts that separate a technically excellent CA from a strategic finance leader — and what the qualification never teaches you.
CA Sakshi Jain | Finance & Audit | Price-Volume-Mix Analysis: The FP&A Tool Most Teams Get Wrong
CA Sakshi Jain on why most PVM bridges are technically correct and analytically useless, and how to build one that actually explains what happened to revenue.
Topics I’m Writing About
FP&A
Practical FP&A frameworks: variance bridges, driver-based budgeting, rolling forecasts, and the analytical muscle to move a finance team from reporting history to shaping strategy.
CFO Leadership
The CA-to-CFO transition demands sharper judgement, broader influence, and a genuinely forward-looking mindset. This is where I write about what that shift actually requires.
Accounting Standards
US GAAP, IFRS, and Ind AS covered with the rigour of someone who has applied them in practice: what they mean for financial models, management reporting, and the decisions that follow.