FP&A Today (The FP&A Guy)

Recent Episodes

1. The $100M Revenue Mistake Everyone Missed

   Sep 16, 2026

   Devon Coombs, a CPA and revenue recognition expert, discusses a $100M acquisition that was nearly completed before he discovered through weekend contract review that the target company had no contractual right to the revenue it had recognized. The episode explores how invoice-based revenue recognition can mask underlying performance obligation failures, the complexity of ASC 606 guidance, and how principal-versus-agent determinations can distort reported revenue by orders of magnitude. Coombs shares frameworks for aligning contract structure, commercial objectives, and revenue recognition policy—critical before pursuing transactions or IPOs.

2. 50% of your job needs to be finance transformation: Anders Liu-Lindberg

   Sep 8, 2026

   Anders Liu-Lindberg, a partner at Implement Consulting Group, returns to FP&A Today to discuss why finance transformations fail despite significant investment. Drawing on his decade at Maersk and years advising CFOs across Europe and the US, he argues that 50% of a CFO's job must be dedicated to transformation sponsorship, and that most failures stem from poor change management rather than flawed strategy. He shares a real example of a transformation that didn't land and outlines three metrics for measuring business partnering impact.

3. What boards really expect - from a CFO and Executive who isn’t coaching from the sidelines

   Sep 2, 2026

   Peter McKenzie, a General Manager at a Blackstone portfolio company and professor at IESE Business School, discusses what boards actually expect from CFOs and finance leaders. The conversation unpacks five foundational principles for finance professionals—being a business partner, knowing the right numbers, storytelling with a narrative "red line," earning a seat at the table, and staying forward-looking—through the lens of board deck design and effectiveness. McKenzie emphasizes that these foundations are about influence and decision-making, not just reporting, and challenges the bloated 70+ page board decks that obscure signal with noise.

4. Goodbye to Glenn: Meet the new Host of FP&A Today

   Aug 11, 2026

   Glenn Hopper steps down as host of FP&A Today after two years and passes the microphone to Sarah Schlott, a 20-year FP&A leader and consultant. The two discuss their unlikely paths into finance, Glenn's 2006 independent film, and Sarah's vision for the show: deeper curiosity, challenging FP&A's foundational assumptions, and broadening voices in finance. Glenn also discusses his new book on AI strategy for CFOs and his shift from hosting to consulting and building.

5. Lessons from a finance revolution at Mars, with Colin Moss

   Jul 26, 2026

   Colin Moss, a finance and transformation leader with 23 years in global consumer goods at Cadbury and Mars, discusses his career trajectory from internal audit to divisional CFO roles, including leading a multi-year global finance transformation at Mars. He reflects on the shift to founding CM Strategies, a fractional CFO and advisory practice, and shares insights on business partnering, KPI design, management reporting, and developing judgment, drive, and influence in finance professionals.

6. The Dennis Rodman Paradox And How CFOs Can Protect Irreplaceable Specialists With Jack McCullough

   Jul 16, 2026

7. How to Align Marketing and Finance and Fix the Plumbing Problem with Alex Brower

   Jul 15, 2026

8. Building Financial Modeling Skills While Playing an E-Sport Game with Professor Eric Kelley

   Jul 14, 2026

9. The Pricing Psychology for Leaders to Stop Underpricing and Understand Value with Etinosa

   Jul 9, 2026

10. AI Financial Modeling Test for Finance Pros to Understand the Limitations using Real Tool Comparison

    Jul 7, 2026