Finance teams are ever more perceived as the function responsible for ensuring the financial well being of the organization and the leader in terms of planning for budget, performance indicators and most of all predicting what next quarter may look like. In this way business leads within the organization can make better decisions to meet their targets. Having said this, as this year becomes more geopolitically volatile with changing legislation on trade, and tensions arise from political frictions, Finance teams can with there foresight bring about many scenarios to the market that allows for a broader analysis within there organizations and reach consensus on business strategies, contingency plans and many other aspects that organizations need to address in order to survive and/or thrive.