That $24,000 Job Looked Profitable. So Where Did the Money Go?
Learn how to calculate job profitability, uncover labor overruns, and improve service business margins with a practical $24,000 project example.
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Your Business Might Be Sitting on More Cash Than You Think. Let’s Find It.
Learn how to calculate the cash conversion cycle, understand DIO, DSO, and DPO, and find opportunities to release working capital with a practical example.
Your Monthly Management Report Is Beautiful. Does Anyone Actually Do Anything With It?
Learn how to turn monthly management reports into decisions with a practical financial example, action-item framework, and reporting improvements.
Budget Variance Analysis: How FP&A Finds What Actually Matters
There is a particular kind of monthly Finance meeting where every variance gets treated like it has committed a crime. Travel is $8,000 over budget. Explain it. Software is $11,000 under. Explain it. Office supplies are $3,700 over. Apparently we need closure. Meanwhile, revenue is $2.4 million below plan and somehow we’ve allocated roughly the […]
Sarah Schlott
FP&A consulting, forecasting, accounting support and finance strategy for CFOs and growing finance teams.