FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)
The discipline of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario modeling to support business planning and decision-making.
What is FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)?
FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) covers budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario modeling. FP&A teams translate strategy into financial plans and monitor execution against those plans.
Core FP&A activities include building annual budgets, rolling forecasts, analyzing budget vs actual variances, and modeling strategic scenarios (new market entry, acquisition, fundraise).
Early-stage companies often lack dedicated FP&A staff. The discipline still matters: someone must connect hiring plans, revenue targets, and cash runway into a coherent forward view.
Why it matters
Without FP&A discipline, decisions happen in silos. Sales commits to targets finance has not modeled. Engineering hires against a runway no one has updated.
Lightweight FP&A (monthly budget review, quarterly scenario refresh) prevents drift without enterprise complexity.
How RunwayCal helps
RunwayCal provides FP&A capabilities sized for growing businesses: budgets, variance tracking, scenarios, and runway forecasting without a dedicated finance team.
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