Monthly management accounts and KPI reporting

We produce the group's management accounts each month, with the measures that sit beside them: results by entity, brand and channel, cash, debt and covenant headroom, and a short list of operating indicators chosen with the board.

The pack opens with a page of commentary signed by the Managing Partner that states what changed, why, and what the board is being asked to decide.

• A group management pack with income statement, balance sheet and cash flow on one consolidated basis.
• Entity, brand and channel pages using a common chart of accounts and written definitions.
• A one-page KPI sheet of the few measures the board has chosen, each with an owner and a target.
• A variance commentary against budget and prior month, with the cause named.
• A month-end calendar showing who delivers what, and by which working day.

• The board pack reaches the chairman in fewer working days after month end.
• Every entity reports on the common chart of accounts.
• Each KPI on the sheet has an owner and a target, and the board counts how many do.
• Intercompany differences are cleared at close.
• Board agenda items come with figures from the pack.

Where each entity reports in its own format on its own timetable, the group view is assembled by hand and arrives after the moment to act has passed. The chairman then reads numbers that cannot be compared and have no commentary. Meetings spend their time reconciling figures and discussing what happened, not choosing what to do.

• The pack reaches the board after the meeting it was meant for.
• Each entity uses a different chart of accounts and a different definition of revenue.
• The measures in the pack have grown to dozens and none of them triggers a decision.
• Covenant headroom is calculated by the bank before it is calculated by the group.
• Variance to budget is shown without a reason or an owner.

Chairmen, principals and chief executives who receive results late, in different formats from each entity, and who want a single reliable view before the board meets, the bank asks or an investor calls.

Qasim Abbas brought more than 20 companies across several countries onto one set of numbers, and more than seven at Nexxo Pay and QPay International. We give your board that single view, with the KPIs that drive each decision.

We build the pack from your own ledgers, whether Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, NetSuite or Oracle, and store it with the board documents in the CFO Room. See how fees work.

How quickly can a pack be ready after month end?

On a fixed working day, which we set with your team in the first month and shorten from there.

Who decides which KPIs go in the pack?

The board does, from a list we propose. We recommend a short set tied to decisions and remove any measure that has led to none.

Can the pack serve lenders and investors too?

Yes. We prepare a version with the same figures and a lighter commentary for lenders and investors.

Put the last pack your board received on the table. We mark what it answers, what it leaves open and how the first redesigned pack reads.