Guide

Pilot's Annual Planning Guide for Professional Services

Annual planning is often considered a technical process whereby a company lays out the financial roadmap for the upcoming year, but it can be more than that. When done well, the annual plan can act as a rallying cry for your team ensuring you’re all marching in the same direction. 

Pilot’s CFO Services team put together this playbook as a framework for thinking about your own annual planning process. In creating this guide, the team leverages their experience in driving the annual planning process for Pilot Professional Services customers and combined decades of experience from across industries. 

Get Instant Access

Thank you! Taking you to your download.
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

What's inside:

  • A phased-approach to annual planning
  • Key stakeholders, roles and responsibilities
  • Fiscal considerations, by business size
  • and more!
quotation mark

In the early stages of a business, the entire budgeting process is primarily owner-driven. As the company grows, owners start to rely on department leads to manage predetermined budgets. As a result, you’ll need to defer more responsibility for planning to departments. That's where the annual planning process steps in.