02 / Services
Planning
Budgets, forecasts and cash-flow models, built and then kept current: what is coming, from payroll and the next hire through to reserves, runway and the year ahead.
The problem
The budget goes stale by March.
What's included
Everything in the planning seat.
Who this suits
Anyone who has built a budget once, watched it go stale by March, and had no time to rebuild it.
- Annual budgets, built and then maintained
- Cash-flow forecasts and runway
- Scenario and what-if models
- Payroll, hiring and reserve planning
- Multi-year and multi-fund budgets
- Updated as the year moves, not filed in January
How it runs
Built once, kept current after.
- 01
The first version is built from what you already track: payroll, program costs, the funding you have in hand and the funding you are expecting.
- 02
It gets reforecast as the year moves, not filed away until the next one starts.
- 03
Cash-flow and runway stay live, so a hire, a shortfall or a good quarter shows up before it becomes a surprise.
The rest of the practice
Reporting
Management reporting and board packages, produced on a schedule: the monthly or quarterly numbers, in plain language, on the table before the meeting and not after it.
See what's includedAnalysis
The figures behind a decision, worked out before you make it: profitability by program, product or job, a pricing change, the real cost of a hire.
See what's includedNot sure planning is the right place to start? A finance review sorts it out first.
Where to start
Not sure which one you need?
Most people are not, at first. A finance review sorts it out: we look at what you have, what you are being asked for, and what is falling through, then tell you what to hand over first.