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Most finance teams buy FP&A software the same way. They line up demos, score features, pick a winner, and sign. Six months later the tool works fine and the project still stalled. The platform is almost never why these projects fail. What decides the outcome is everything around the choice, and it is the part most buyers skip. There is an eight-point checklist at the end. First, why the platform is rarely the problem. What you are really buying when you buy FP&A software You

Picture a hotel finance office in the late 1970s. The president walks in with a simple question: "What happens to labor costs if we change our occupancy assumption by 5%?" To answer, William (now VP of Finance at Trump Hotels) had to pull out a physical, 13-column paper ledger, reach for his eraser, and manually recalculate every single cell, row by row, across every department. One column for the account. Twelve for each month. One for the annual total. "You can imagine what

There is a CFO out there using AI for variance commentary, narrative generation, and reporting. But when the conversation turns to letting it update the budget model, the answer is immediate: absolutely not. Paul Barnhurst, founder of The FP&A Guy and host of three podcasts, sat down with Charlie Liu on Making Cents with Charlie to discuss where that fear comes from, whether it is rational, and what the current state of AI in FP&A actually looks like. Watch the full episode h

For most high-growth companies, financial planning follows a predictable, painful lifecycle. In the early days, a scrappy system of Excel sheets works just fine. One person owns the model, everyone knows where the file lives, and the process holds together through sheer familiarity. But as complexity compounds, more business entities, volatile market changes, shifting headcount, new revenue lines, those fragmented spreadsheets begin to fracture. The friction point in mid-mark

Every growing company eventually hits a hidden bottleneck: its own finance function. It does not announce itself loudly. It surfaces during a high-stakes week. A founder or CFO is reviewing a forecast ahead of a crucial board meeting and realizes the data is already outdated. Multiple versions of the same model are circulating across Slack threads and inboxes, and the team is spending more time debating which spreadsheet has the correct formula than actually analyzing the bus

Turning Excel into an AI Powerhouse Requires the Right FP&A Software Implementation Partner Microsoft just gave Excel a brain. Anthropic dropped Claude for Excel. Every FP&A leader on your team is asking the same question: does this finally let us skip the platform migration? The honest answer is no. But it's a better question than most people are asking. Recent data from the Association for Financial Professionals (2025) highlights a sobering reality: 61% of FP&A practitione

MCC Inc. has been awarded the prestigious Vena International Partner of the Year Award for 2025 by Vena Solutions and officially achieved Vena Distinguished Partner status.