Tag: CPA
CA Sakshi Jain | Finance & Audit | Rolling Forecasts: Why Your Annual Budget Is Obsolete by February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.
CA Sakshi Jain | Finance & Audit | Working Capital Management: The CFO's Lever on Cash
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.
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 | Driver-Based Budgeting: Moving Beyond Line-Item Extrapolation
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.
The Meeting Nobody Looks Forward To: Making Variance Analysis and Monthly Actuals Reviews Impactful
Why most variance analysis describes the past without shaping the future, and how to build the actuals review your CFO actually wants.
Ind AS 118: What Changes When the P&L Gets a New Structure
Ind AS 118 replaces Ind AS 1, and what the new P&L category structure means for CFOs, FP&A teams, and auditors preparing for April 2027.
The Margin Illusion: Decoding Mix Variance in Your Revenue Bridge for SaaS Success
CA Sakshi Jain on why a SaaS business beats its logo target by 20% and still misses revenue, and how mix variance explains it.
Mastering the Revenue Bridge: From Accounting to FP&A Strategy
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.
The Hidden Debt: Is Your Balance Sheet Ready for Ind AS 116?
Lease accounting under Ind AS 116, the EBITDA illusion it creates, and what FP&A teams need to model differently as a result.
The Tiger Global Verdict: A Watershed Moment in Indian International Tax
The Supreme Court's 2026 ruling against Tiger Global, and what the end of Form over Substance means for every finance professional working with offshore structures.
The Audit Engagement Letter: The Document That Defines Everything
The audit engagement letter is the most important document you handle before fieldwork begins. Here is what the India versus US comparison reveals about scope, liability, and controls.
The Free iPhone Illusion: Revenue Recognition under Ind AS 115 and IFRS 15
The accounting disconnect between billing and revenue recognition in bundled contracts, and why it creates traps for CFOs, FP&A teams, and dividend decisions.