About FP&A Nxt

FP&A means two things here. Both are always true.

FP&A — as every Finance professional knows — stands for Financial Planning and Analysis. The discipline. The function. The work that sits at the heart of every well-run organisation.

But read the modern tool stack the same way:

The same four characters. Two complete meanings. Both true at the same time.

A post about a Fabric pipeline is a post about Financial planning infrastructure. A post about Aimplan forecasting is a post about Analysis. The tools and the discipline are not separate topics here. They are the same topic. That is the niche.

The Nxt sits on top: this is FP&A — the discipline and the stack — for what is coming next.

What you will find here

FPandANxt publishes weekly content across three areas:

Stack
Practical tutorials, tips, and release note breakdowns for Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Aimplan. Built for Finance professionals, not developers. Always connected to real FP&A workflows — budgeting, forecasting, reporting, month-end close.

Craft
The knowledge behind the tools. A controller can build a data quality checker in a Fabric Notebook in an afternoon. But do they know what data quality actually means for their close process? Craft is where the tools meet the domain knowledge that makes them useful.

Lead
For Finance leaders and Managing Partners. How to build teams that are curious and capable in the data era. How to lead when the frontier is moving faster than any training plan. Always grounded in real Finance examples — never abstract management theory.

Who is behind this

Espen P. Kringstad is Managing Partner and CEO of Kokai Consulting, a Business Intelligence and FP&A consultancy. He has spent his career at the intersection of Finance and Data — not as a developer who learned accounting, but as someone who started in Finance and kept pushing further into the tools that make Finance teams genuinely better.

With a background in Economics and IT-Management, and hands-on experience across consulting, SaaS, and enterprise finance environments — including Mantle Analytics and Onestop Reporting (later acquired by Visma) — Espen brings a practitioner's perspective to a space often dominated by vendor marketing and product documentation.

He works with real clients, on real data, every week. At Kokai, the philosophy is simple: Stay Curious. FPandANxt is where that curiosity goes public.

Everything published here comes from real projects, real workflows, and real Finance teams navigating real terrain. Practitioner perspective — not official Microsoft or Aimplan documentation.

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Why this site exists — the honest version

The idea arrived on a Sunday evening, July 13th 2025, at a small cabin in Haugastøl. Post-hike, glass of red, the kind of quiet that only comes when you have actually stopped moving. The FP&A double meaning hit out of nowhere — and within thirty minutes of sending a message to the Aimplan CEO and a colleague, the idea was already moving.

That moment demonstrated something more important than the wordplay itself: when the right minds, with the right shared understanding, start moving in the same direction together, something new gets built. Faster than any one person could build it alone.

That is what FPandANxt is meant to be. Not one person broadcasting what they know — but a place where Finance professionals, data practitioners, and Finance leaders map the territory together. What works. What does not. What looked right and turned out to be the wrong path. Honest reviews alongside the tutorials. Real experience alongside the theory.

We get better together faster than we get better alone.

A note on community

If you build something, try something, break something, or learn something the hard way using any of the tools covered here — share it. In the comments, on LinkedIn, anywhere. The map of this new era gets better every time someone who has actually been somewhere adds their notes.

Data is this era's gold. The map is still being drawn.

Stay curious.

© FPandANxt, Espen Kringstad
Practitioner perspective — not official Microsoft or Aimplan documentation.