Capabilities directory
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- Function: Finance and accounting
- Industry: Construction
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26 capabilities, showing 1 to 24
Annual operating budget
For an owner or finance lead preparing next year: revenue and costs by month and by team, built from this year's figures and each budget owner's drivers, every assumption written down, capital purchases listed apart, the whole checked against cash, and the questions leadership has to settle.
Business insurance renewal review
Before the business insurance renews, the owner gets one pack: every policy with insurer, limits, deductibles, premium and dates; renewal terms beside expiring ones, every change marked; what changed in the business; claims; and questions for the broker. The broker and the owner decide all cover.
Business line investment review
For leadership with several business lines: each line set side by side on one basis (fit with strategy, finance-reviewed results, shared resources, open questions) and placed as invest, investigate or reduce commitment, for the leadership team to discuss and decide.
Client schedule to ledger reconciliation
When a client's subledger schedule and trial balance disagree, the responsible accountant gets one worksheet: both balances proved, every timing difference and unexplained entry listed, and the next step for each. Nothing is posted; every explanation waits for a person.
Cost of poor quality worksheet
An owner or operations lead who senses that rework, scrap and returns are costly gets one worksheet: the failure costs already on record, sorted by category, with estimates, gaps and unresolved allocations listed. The owner decides what to fix first.
Discount request review
Before a price below list goes to a customer, whoever approves it gets one page: the discount and what it costs in margin, every clause of your own written policy met or missed, who approves and in what order, and what the customer gives in return. A person decides; nothing is sent.
Employee health plan comparison
For an owner or people lead at renewal: the broker's health plan options next to each other, with premiums split between company and employee, deductibles, out-of-pocket limits, network notes, the cost to the company and to a typical employee at low, middle and high use, and questions for the broker.
Engagement margin review
Midway or at close, the partner and finance lead get one worksheet for an engagement: recorded time, agreed fee, billed to date and supplied costs by workstream, the gaps that limit it, and the questions the team must answer. No cost rate is invented.
Estimate basis pack
An estimator pricing a job from drawings, takeoffs and supplier quotes gets one worksheet: every figure with its quantity source, rate source and date beside it, each exclusion listed and every gap already written as a scope question. The estimator verifies; the bid lead decides the figure.
Field service invoice evidence check
When completed field work is ready for invoicing, the billing manager gets draft billing lines that tie the agreed rates to crew time, equipment use, mobilization and signed service tickets. Unsigned tickets, overlapping equipment days and unsupported extras are listed as exceptions.
Headcount plan
For a founder, people lead or finance lead preparing next year: every role and its cost by team, the new roles and backfills with their months, the fully loaded cost month by month against the budget, and what changes if revenue lands lower or higher. It plans roles and money, never decisions about named people.
Journal entry preparation
At month end, your bookkeeper hands the controller every proposed journal entry ready to review: balanced lines on accounts from your own chart, the arithmetic and the document behind each amount, whether it reverses, and who approves it. Nothing is posted until a person approves.
Lender draw package index
Before a monthly draw goes to the lender, the project finance lead has an index in the lender’s own order: every required document listed or missing, and every invoice set against the ledger. The lender decides funding; nothing is submitted.
Matter budget and status summary
The responsible partner sees one matter whole: scope, phases against their dates, the budget against fees to date and the projected total, a red, amber or green status with the rule behind it, risks and next actions with owners. Built from the time export and the matter plan, never a view on the merits.
Offtake statement variance check
When a buyer's offtake statement differs from the energy sales ledger, the settlement analyst gets one comparison: volumes, periods, prices and adjustments set against the metered-volume export and the agreed price inputs, each discrepancy traced to its source. Nothing is disputed or adjusted.
Overdue-invoice follow-up preparation
Every overdue invoice gets a follow-up drafted in your firm’s tone for its age and addressed from the right person, and every invoice that should not be chased is held with the reason written down.
Pay application line check
Before a progress billing goes on, the project accountant has every line compared with the schedule of values, the last certificate, the approved changes and the evidence supplied, with each arithmetic difference listed. The authorized certifier decides payment; nothing is certified.
Prebill exception review
Before the billing attorney opens a prebill, the billing coordinator has every awkward entry marked: rates that differ from the firm's rate table, possible duplicates, entries outside the client's billing guidelines, unclear narratives and expenses without support, each sent to the person who acts next.
Price change review
Before prices change, the owner or finance lead gets one review: the margin on each product or service from the sales and cost exports, how costs have moved, what each proposed price does to sales and gross profit across a stated range of customer responses, and dated competitor prices. It recommends no price.
Software subscription and vendor spend review
From a card statement or ledger export, the finance or operations lead gets every subscription on one register: what each costs a year, who owns it, what renews in the next 90 days, what looks unused, duplicated or orphaned, and the decisions to make. Nothing is cancelled or changed.
SOP exception capture
Turn what your most experienced person does with the awkward cases into an exception register for one procedure. Once the owner approves it, every colleague handles those cases the way your best person does.
Supplier issue notice
When a supplier bills for more than was ordered or received, or falls short of an agreed delivery or quality target, the buyer gets a formal notice ready for approval: each problem set against the record, the evidence listed, what the supplier must do and the date to reply by. A person approves and sends it.
Supplier spend analysis
From one accounts-payable export, the finance or operations lead sees where the money goes: spend cleaned and grouped by category and supplier, the few suppliers that take most of it, the tail, needs bought from several suppliers and consolidation opportunities, each with its figures. A person decides what to act on.
Thirteen-week cash flow forecast
The owner sees cash week by week for the next thirteen weeks: what comes in, what goes out, the lowest point and every week below the floor they set, with each assumption written on the page. The forecast informs the decision; the owner makes it, and nothing is paid or moved.