Everything I've written on FP&A, accounting standards, and the CA-to-CFO transition.
Browse by Topic →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.
Read more →Zero-based budgeting works in specific contexts and fails in others. Here is how I decide when the clean-sheet approach is worth it.
Read more →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.
Read more →How the best CFOs turn audit findings and control frameworks into strategic tools for capital allocation and board confidence.
Read more →Most finance dashboards have too many metrics and not enough decisions. Here is how I build ones leadership uses.
Read more →How CFOs should think about AI risk: model explainability, audit trail integrity, and where human judgement still wins.
Read more →Most scenario plans gather dust. Here is how I build frameworks that leadership actually uses for capital allocation.
Read more →CA Sakshi Jain on why the P&L tells you if a business is profitable and working capital tells you if it is healthy, and how to read the signals before they become a crisis.
Read more →Why most variance analysis describes the past without shaping the future, and how to build the actuals review your CFO actually wants.
Read more →How I structure driver-based models that connect operational assumptions to P&L forecasts and survive quarterly updates.
Read more →CA Sakshi Jain on why line-item budgeting keeps producing plans that are wrong before Q1 ends, and how a driver-based approach changes the budget conversation entirely.
Read more →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.
Read more →Over-time vs point-in-time revenue in construction contracts, and how the method choice reshapes your quarterly P&L.
Read more →CA Sakshi Jain on why a SaaS business beats its logo target by 20% and still misses revenue, and how mix variance explains it.
Read more →How to build a price-volume-mix revenue bridge that explains not just what happened to revenue, but why, and what the CFO needs to decide next.
Read more →How SaaS revenue recognition under ASC 606 shapes ARR, EBITDA, and the metrics investors actually watch.
Read more →Lease accounting under Ind AS 116, the EBITDA illusion it creates, and what FP&A teams need to model differently as a result.
Read more →The accounting disconnect between billing and revenue recognition in bundled contracts, and why it creates traps for CFOs, FP&A teams, and dividend decisions.
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