FP&A
Variance Analysis by Account Type: One Method Does Not Fit All
A materials overrun, a rent wobble and a commission spike are three different kinds of news, and reading them with one rule misreads at least two. How variance logic should change by P&L line.
11 Aug 2026·9 min read
FP&A
DSO, DIO, DPO: The Working-Capital Numbers That Predict Cash Stress
The bank balance is the last place cash stress shows up. Three backward-looking ratios — days sales outstanding, days inventory outstanding, days payable outstanding — surface the trend months earlier, if anyone is watching them monthly.
4 Aug 2026·9 min read
Management Reporting
When Numbers Arrive Late, Decisions Go Wrong
A management report that arrives on day 18 is not a report about last month. It is a report about history. The window to act on most of what it contains closed days ago — and the business kept running without the information.
17 Jun 2026·7 min read
FP&A
Budget vs Actual Is a Question, Not a Subtraction
Every management pack has a variance column, and most of them are useless. A number next to a budget isn't a finding — it's a prompt nobody answered. What real variance analysis looks like.
13 Jun 2026·4 min read
FP&A
Profit Is an Opinion, Cash Is a Fact: The 13-Week View
A profitable business can still run out of money, and the question leadership actually loses sleep over is forward cash, not backward profit. Why the short-horizon cash forecast is the report that prevents the worst surprises.
13 Jun 2026·5 min read
Management Reporting
Where to Start
A short guide to reading this blog: where to begin, the methodology posts, the trust layer, and the sector guides — a sensible path through everything we've written on management reporting.
15 May 2026·2 min read
Management Reporting
What Management Reporting Is Actually For
Most management reports answer the wrong question. They tell you what happened. The ones that matter tell you what to do — and the gap between the two is where most finance teams spend their careers.
15 May 2026·11 min read
FP&A
Why Your Month-End Takes Two Weeks (and Where the Hours Actually Go)
Finance teams spend the first half of every month assembling reports and the second half explaining them. The assembly is the part that shouldn't need people. Here's the anatomy of the close.
12 May 2026·4 min read