Specialism
Controllership and financial BPO
Deciding with last month's figure is driving by the rear-view mirror.
The average company closes the month between the tenth and the twentieth of the following month. Which means that, by the time the board discusses March's result, April is over and May is half gone. The decisions taken in that meeting correct a problem that has already produced sixty days of effect — and the figure behind them was closed by someone who is not in the room.
Accounting and controllership answer different questions. The first answers to the State, with fixed rules and legal deadlines. The second answers to the owner: which project carries margin, which client is expensive, how much cash exists thirteen weeks from now in the bad scenario. Confusing the two is common and costly, because statutory accounts were never designed to guide a short-term decision.
We take on that second function with the same reporting discipline as every other practice. And there is a side effect that suits both sides: whoever has a recent figure sees the opportunity before it becomes an emergency — which is, in the end, our entire service described in one sentence.
One simple tool separates those who sleep from those who do not: the thirteen-week cash flow. It is not a budget projection, it is cash week by week, with what is already contracted. It shows the squeeze two months ahead, which is exactly the time needed to solve it without taking the worst credit line available.
Monthly retainer by scope and volume, with a contracted closing deadline: the month's figure is ready on defined business days, not whenever. A delay on our side reduces the following month's retainer. It is the only practice whose product is a date met, and for that reason the only one that carries a penalty for us.
Official sources, at the exact point — the article of law, the service or the search you can use today. None replaces analysis of the specific case, which is our work.
Say in two lines what you need to resolve. An account manager replies personally, in business hours, and the conversation starts where it makes a difference.
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