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Numbers about next year, not just last year.

Most accounting stops at reporting what already happened. Forward looking work is a separate discipline, and it is the one we lead with.

Most accounting stops at reporting what already happened. That is the part SARS needs and the part that keeps you compliant, but it is not the part that helps you decide whether to hire, to sign the lease, or to take the order that will stretch your cash. Forward looking work is a separate discipline, and it is the one we lead with.

Annual

The budget

Built in a working session with you rather than emailed over for approval. We start from your capacity and your pipeline, not from last year plus ten percent.

  • Revenue build by product, client or channel
  • Staffing and overhead plan
  • Capital expenditure schedule
  • Monthly phasing, not an annual number divided by twelve
  • Board or lender ready presentation pack
What you getYou start the year with a number to beat rather than a hope to hold.
Weekly

The 13 week cash flow

The single most useful document a business under pressure can hold. Receipts and payments week by week, so you can see the squeeze before you are inside it.

  • Debtor collection and creditor payment timing
  • VAT, PAYE and provisional tax payment dates built in
  • Loan repayments and covenant checkpoints
  • Rolled forward weekly with actuals against forecast
  • Early warning on the week the balance goes negative
What you getYou see the tight week six weeks before it arrives, while you still have options.
On demand

The scenario model

A three statement model you can drive. Change an assumption and watch it move through profit, cash and the balance sheet at the same time.

  • Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow linked
  • Best, base and downside cases
  • Sensitivity on price, volume, cost and payment terms
  • Break even, runway and funding requirement
  • Hire, expand, acquire and exit decisions tested first
What you getYou find out what a decision costs before you commit to it.

Tracked, not filed

A budget only earns its cost if someone compares it to reality every month. Budget versus actual is part of the standard reporting pack, with commentary on the variances that matter.

Reforecast when things change

A plan written in February is wrong by June. We reforecast on a rolling basis so the numbers you are working from reflect what has actually happened since.

Built by the person who does your books

The forecast is only as good as the underlying data. Because the same office does the processing, the model is built on numbers we already know are clean.

Yours to keep

You get the working model, not a locked PDF. If you want to run your own scenarios at eleven at night, the file is on your machine and we will show you how it works.

In their words

What clients say.

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