Driver-Based Budgeting: Building Agile FP&A Models. A comprehensive guide: Building the Financial Engine Behind Strategic Agility

By Hayden Van Der Post

Reactive Publishing

Driver-Based Budgeting is the operating system of modern finance. As volatility accelerates, traditional budgeting cycles collapse under their own weight. Organizations need models that move with the business, not behind it. In this comprehensive guide, Hayden Van Der Post shows financial leaders how to architect agile, predictive, and dynamically linked budgeting frameworks that scale from early-stage startups to billion-dollar enterprises.

This book gives you the complete blueprint: how to identify true economic drivers, model their interactions, quantify sensitivities, simulate scenarios in real time, and build a forecasting engine that adapts instantly to market, operational, and strategic shifts. You will learn to move beyond static assumptions and instead design a budgeting system that anticipates change, guides decision-making, and aligns the entire organization around measurable levers that actually move performance.

Inside you will discover
- How to transform messy operational realities into clean, mathematical driver networks
- Step-by-step models for volume, rate, mix, productivity, capacity, churn, retention, unit economics, and contribution margin
- How to architect a unified FP&A model that supports rolling forecasts, scenario planning, and real-time updates
- Techniques for building elasticity curves, stress-tests, and Monte Carlo engines
- How to design dashboards and narrative outputs that allow executives to make immediate, confident decisions
- Templates, structures, and modeling logic used by world-class FP&A teams

Whether you lead a finance function or are building one from scratch, this book gives you the tools to create a budgeting system that is fast, data-driven, transparent, and strategically aligned. Driver-Based Budgeting is more than a technique. It is the future of FP&A-adaptive, integrated, and built for the next decade.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4W8G98P
• ISBN13: 9798277152614
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"