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Finance

FP&A

The Analysis Arrives With the Books

Who does what

What’s Automated. What a Person Owns.

Written back · July close

“Measure runway on burn net of the annual Halcyon prepayment.”

Agreed once, and applied to every runway figure since.

✦ Automated

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Ten analyses computed on every close

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Each movement traced to the vendors behind it

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The close note drafted from computed figures only

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What deserves a second look, flagged for the CPA

A licensed CPA owns

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Confirming every figure before it ships

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Deciding what reaches you as needing attention

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Budgets, forecasts and scenarios, built with you

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Walking you through the numbers when you ask

Included in every close

Ten Analyses in Every Close

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Period Results

What revenue and the bottom line were, against last period

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Cash Runway

How many months the cash lasts at current burn

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Flux Analysis

What moved since last period, and who moved it

04

Vendor Spend

Who you paid, ranked, with each one’s share

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Revenue Concentration

How much rests on your largest customers

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Spend Anomalies

Vendors that moved inside accounts that look flat

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Key Ratios

Margins, expense intensity and leverage

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Common-Size P&L

Every line as a share of revenue

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Second Look

What deserves a second look on the IS and BS

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The Close Note

The numbers that matter this month, in plain words

Period Results · revenue, gross profit and net income against the prior period

01

Period Results

What revenue and the bottom line were, against last period

02

Cash Runway

How many months the cash lasts at current burn

03

Flux Analysis

What moved since last period, and who moved it

04

Vendor Spend

Who you paid, ranked, with each one’s share

05

Revenue Concentration

How much rests on your largest customers

06

Spend Anomalies

Vendors that moved inside accounts that look flat

07

Key Ratios

Margins, expense intensity and leverage

08

Common-Size P&L

Every line as a share of revenue

09

Second Look

What deserves a second look on the IS and BS

10

The Close Note

The numbers that matter this month, in plain words

Period Results · revenue, gross profit and net income against the prior period

Example for a fictional company

Beyond the close · scoped to you

When You Need to Plan Ahead

Annual budget

A 12-month operating budget built with you, by month and by line

Cash forecast

A rolling 13-week or 12-month forecast, updated each close

Budget vs actual

Every close compared with the plan, variances explained

Scenario models

Hiring, fundraising timing, price changes, and what each does to runway

Departmental reporting

The P&L split by team, product or region

SaaS & unit metrics

MRR, churn, CAC and payback from your billing data

Management reporting pack

A monthly pack for your leadership meeting, in your format

Illustration

How it works

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The analyses run on every close

Nothing to switch on. They arrive in the package.

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Tell us what you need to plan

We scope the additional work on a call and fix the price before we start.

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The plan lives next to the books

Every close updates the forecast and the variances, so the plan never goes stale in a spreadsheet.

FAQ

Questions

Is the analysis really included?

Do I need a budget to get value?

When does the analysis arrive?

What if a number looks wrong to me?