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//THE ROUTE

Financial management at the speed of the business not the month close.

Live dashboards. 13-week cash. Rolling forecasts. Real systems, not Excel chaos.

For B2B teams whose CFOs are firefighting instead of forecasting, whose budgets live in one Excel file from 2022, and whose leadership only sees financial truth on the 15th of next month. We build the dashboards, forecasts, and cadence that turn finance into a real-time decision tool.

SCOPE CLARIFIER

We're not accountants, auditors, or tax advisors. We're operations consultants who build the financial systems your CFO needs to run the business: dashboards, forecasts, cadence, and integrations.

// SIGNS YOU ARE IN THE WRONG TRAIL

Finance shouldn't surprise you on the 15th.

Symptoms most leadership teams accept as normal until cash gets tight.

SIGN 01

​Month-close takes 15+ days.

By the time you see last month's numbers, half of this month is already gone. Strategic decisions get made on memory, not data.

SIGN 02

Cash is a Wednesday surprise.

You find out cash is tight three days before payroll. There's no 13-week cash view. Forecast = whatever's in the CFO's head.

SIGN 03

Budget vs actual is a PDF.

The annual budget was signed in December and hasn't been touched since. Variances surface only at quarter-end, too late to course-correct.

SIGN 04

Board reports take 3 days.

Every board meeting, your CFO disappears for 72 hours to compile decks from five spreadsheets. The data is stale by the time it's presented.

SIGN 05

Forecasting is one Excel file.

One person built it years ago. Nobody fully understands it. When they take vacation, forecasting stops.

SIGN 06

CFO firefights, doesn't forecast.

Your CFO spends 80% of their time on month-close, AR/AP chasing, and board prep. Strategic work, pricing, M&A, capital allocation, never gets attention.

// WHAT WE BUILD

Six financial artifacts. All live. All transferable.

The systems your CFO owns when we leave not reports we hand over once a month.

01

13-week cash flow model

The model PE firms swear by. Weekly cash inflows and outflows for the next 13 weeks. Updated automatically. Stress-test scenarios built in.

03

Budget vs actual tracking

Live variance views by department, project, or initiative. Drill from variance to transaction. Surface red flags weekly, not quarterly.

05

Board reporting framework

Templated board deck that auto-populates from live data. Your CFO stops disappearing for 72 hours before every board meeting.

02

Rolling annual forecast

Replace the dead annual budget with a rolling 12-month forecast updated monthly. Always 12 months of visibility, regardless of calendar.

04

Month-close playbook

Documented close process with automated checklists, owner assignments, and deadlines. Cut close time by 50-70% in the first three months.

06

Live financial dashboard

P&L, cash position, AR aging, margin by product/segment all in one view, refreshed daily. Connects directly to QuickBooks, Xero, or NetSuite.

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// METHODOLOGY

The 5-phase route to financial visibility.

Five phases. Average engagement 6–12 weeks. First dashboard live in week 4.

01 / Discovery

Discovery 

Map the terrain

Audit current state. Map data sources. Interview CFO + finance team. Identify trust gaps.

02 / Analysis

Plot the route

Design before you build.

Dashboard architecture. KPI definitions. Forecast methodology. Tool selection.

03 / Build

Make the climb

The actual work.

Dashboards built. Cash model live. Forecast model deployed. Integrations to accounting platform tested.

04 / Test

Field test

Before going live.

Reconcile dashboards to source. Run first month-close on new playbook. Adjust before handoff.

05 / Optimize

Beyond the summit

After launch.

Train finance team. Document SOPs. Quarterly check-ins as the business scales.

→ START WITH PHASE 1

// FRAMEWORKS & TOOLS

Built on the platforms your team already uses.

We don't ask you to switch accounting platforms. We build a visibility layer on top of what you already have: QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, or otherwise.

Accounting Platforms

  • QuickBooks Online

  • Xero

  • NetSuite

  • Sage Intacct

  • Microsoft Dynamics

  • Contpaq/Aspel (LATAM)

Reporting & Visualization

  • Power BI

  • Smartsheet

  • Tableau

  • Excel

  • Google Sheets

  • Looker Studio

  • Datawrapper

Frameworks we use

  • 13-week cash flow (PE standard)

  • Rolling forecasts

  • Zero-based budgeting
  • Driver-based forecasting
  • Activity-based costing

INTEGRATION-FIRST · WE BUILD ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING ERP/ACCOUNTING STACK

· NO PLATFORM MIGRATION REQUIRED

// CONNECTED ROUTES

Finance lives connected to operations.

This route most often connects to:

01

Business Optimization &Automation

The process layer

AR/AP automation, invoice routing, approval flows. The processes that make finance scale without adding headcount.

EXPLORE ROUTE →

02

Smartsheet Consulting

The platform layer

Cash flow models, budget tracking, and forecasting often live in Smartsheet for the right balance of flexibility and governance.​

EXPLORE ROUTE →

02

Data analysis & visualization

The visibility layer

When finance dashboards extend into operational KPIs, sales metrics, and cross-funtional analytics that's where this pair shines.

EXPLORE ROUTE →

// BASE CAMP

Bring your last board deck. We'll show you what's possible.

30-minute call. Share your current financial reporting setup. We'll point out what's broken, what's missing, and what your CFO could be doing instead. No slides, no sales pitch.

SMARTSHEET·OPTIMIZATION·APP ARCHITECTURE·AUTOMATION·PROJECTS·STRATEGY·FINANCE·CX·DATA·KNOWLEDGE BASE

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