Who owns the model...?
Had a conversation with an alum recently. They had been working in a demand planning role officially housed in the supply chain unit, but working in close coordination with accounting/finance and were moving into an FP&A analyst role. As conversation progressed got to the question of "Who owns the model?". In many ways, our work in management accounting is being able to model how what we're doing turns into profit/loss. Supply chain does something similar, but their language is units instead of dollars. The IT folks run algorithms and stats when we can't do it ourselves. So, who ultimately owns the model is a core question, I think, and I would argue that accounting/finance is the proper place with a unique position to best manage the model.