“First is production, so drafting, summarization, information retrieval. The second is like more diagnosis, so recurring variance analysis, preparing forecasts, explaining what's changed. And then the third is like decision support.”
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described three AI layers for FP&A: 1) production (drafting, summarization, info retrieval), 2) diagnosis (variance analysis, forecasts, change explanation), 3) decision support (monitoring drivers, hypothesis generation, institutional knowledge retrieval)
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