Can I mention my FP&A tool if I frame it as a question?
No. Rule 3, “Strictly no (self-)promotion or solicitation threads or spam.”, bans posting or commenting your tool, app, blog, or any attempt to solicit business.
Subreddit guides
r/FPandA rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/FPandA: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 74,993
- Verified
- September 29, 2026
- Category
- Startup finance and business operations
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- No low effort posts: Share ideas and insights or ask thoughtful questions related to FP&A. Please refrain from posting generic news items or topics that are better suited for other subs (off-topic). Short questions, image only posts with no context, memes, or gen ai generated content are likely to be removed.
- Keep discussions civil, informative and polite.: Off topic comments, attacks or insults will not be tolerated. We recognize that this forum will generate differences of opinion, or misunderstandings of facts, and therefore arguments are expected. However, personal attacks, insults, trolling, or accounts dedicated to getting under the skin of others is not allowed, and will be banned.
- Strictly no (self-)promotion or solicitation threads or spam.: Do not post or comment your YouTube, twitter, discord, app, tool, blog, referral code, event, survey, or attempt to solicit business. We generally expect that people who come here are not using the sub to build a brand, generate clicks, develop their app, validate ideas or market research, or perform business development. Spammy posts (ai, copy/pasting across many subs, bot activity) will be removed at mod discretion.
- Original Sourcing: articles posted must be from the original source on a best efforts basis: This means if CNBC is reporting on something WSJ reported on we expect you to post the original article. If anyone is writing an article based on a FP&A/Business news release/white paper post the actual paper and not journalism surrounding it. Provide the link to the source article or paper. This rule will be more strictly enforced based on how clickbaity an article is.
- Ethics: While no advice or credentials of those giving advice have been verified or endorsed, any blatant violations of ethical rules are not tolerated.
Works well
- A detailed question about a real planning, budgeting, or forecasting problem you are facing, with enough context that practitioners can give a useful answer.
- A written breakdown of a lesson you learned doing FP&A style work, shared as plain text with no links and no product mentions.
- Sharing a white paper or news release with a link to the original source, plus your own thoughtful take on what it means.
- A genuine career or process question, like how to structure a forecast or build a budget, asked with specifics instead of one line.
- Commenting on other people's posts with informative, polite, and substantive answers that show you know the domain.
Avoid
- Posting your tool, blog, YouTube channel, app, discord, referral code, survey, or event, because “Strictly no (self-)promotion or solicitation threads or spam.” bans all of it.
- Asking the sub to validate your idea or fill out market research, since the promotion rule explicitly says people should not use the sub for that.
- Dropping a short question with no context, like asking for a quick answer without explaining your situation, because “No low effort posts” says short questions are likely to be removed.
- Posting a meme or an image only post with no text explaining it.
- Pasting AI generated content, which the low effort rule calls out directly.
- Sharing a generic news item that belongs in another sub, which counts as off-topic under “No low effort posts” and the moderator one-liner about off-topic content being removed for low effort, off-topic content, self-promotion, incivility, and not linking to original sources, which is the moderator one-liner in spirit, so keep it simple: sharing generic news or off-topic content gets posts removed
What r/FPandA Is For
This community is a place to discuss all things about Financial Planning and Analysis, often shortened to FP&A. That covers the work finance teams do inside companies, like planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analyzing business performance. The people here are practitioners who want real ideas, real insights, and thoughtful questions about the craft. The rules make clear this is not a place for generic news, memes, quick drive-by questions, or anyone trying to sell something. If you spend your days working on financial planning and analysis, or you genuinely want to learn from people who do, this is your room.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
The rule that decides almost everything for a founder here is “Strictly no (self-)promotion or solicitation threads or spam.”. It bans posting or commenting your YouTube, twitter, discord, app, tool, blog, referral code, event, or survey, and it goes further by saying people should not use the sub to build a brand, generate clicks, develop an app, validate ideas, do market research, or perform business development. That is about as strict as promotion rules get. The second rule that matters is “No low effort posts”, which removes short questions, image only posts with no context, memes, and gen ai generated content, and also sends generic news items and off-topic topics elsewhere. Third, “Original Sourcing: articles posted must be from the original source on a best efforts basis” means if you share an article you must link the original source, and the stricter enforcement kicks in the clickbaity the article is. Finally, “Keep discussions civil, informative and polite.” matters because personal attacks, insults, and trolling get people banned.
What To Post
A good post here is a thoughtful question or a genuine insight about financial planning and analysis, written by you, with enough context that a practitioner can give a real answer. If you are a founder, the honest play is to participate as a learner or a peer, not a marketer. Ask a detailed question about a planning, budgeting, or forecasting problem you are actually facing, and include the context that makes it interesting. Share lessons from your own work in prose, with no links and no product mentions. If you want to share an article, find the original source, whether that is a paper or a primary news release, and link that instead of coverage about it. Write everything yourself, because AI generated content is explicitly called out as likely to be removed.
What To Avoid
The fastest way to get removed is self-promotion of any kind, including tools, blogs, social channels, surveys, events, and referral codes, and the rule also covers using the sub for market research or idea validation. Low effort content gets removed too, so skip memes, image only posts with no context, short questions, and anything AI generated. Generic news items and off-topic posts do not belong here. If you share an article, failing to link the original source risks removal, and clickbait makes that enforcement stricter. In the comments, attacks, insults, trolling, and accounts dedicated to getting under people's skin lead to bans. Spammy behavior like copy pasting the same post across many subs is also called out and removed at mod discretion.
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Common questions about r/FPandA
Can I ask for advice on a finance process I am building?
Yes, if it is a thoughtful question about financial planning and analysis with enough context, and it never points back to your product or business.
Can I share an article about a finance trend?
Only if you link the original source. “Original Sourcing: articles posted must be from the original source on a best efforts basis” says to post the paper or primary article, not journalism about it.
Can I use AI to draft my post?
No. The low effort rule says gen ai generated content is likely to be removed, so write it yourself.
Can I put my company name in my profile and still post?
No. The promotion rule expects people are not using the sub to build a brand or generate clicks, so leave your links out entirely.
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