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Finance and accounting for growth & scaling in manufacturing
- Function: Finance and accounting
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Business situation: Growth & scaling
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17 workflow templates
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.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 10 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 8 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Carrier freight invoice check
The freight auditor gets a carrier invoice checked line by line against the shipment export and the rate confirmation: duplicate lines, rate differences and extra charges with no delivery or waiting-time record, each tied to its shipment. Accounts payable decides what to pay or dispute.
- Starts it
- Freight auditor
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Sales lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- People lead
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Estimator
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Product configuration margin sheet
When sales prepares a quote for a product configuration, the commercial owner and finance lead get one worksheet: the quoted price, the costed bill of materials, assembly and freight, and the allocations, with every unquoted part, one-off charge and uncertain volume listed as an open assumption.
- Starts it
- Sales operations coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Range margin by channel review
When a wholesale offer or a promotion changes the economics of a range, the finance lead gets a margin worksheet for every product in every channel, showing which cost layers are in each figure and which gaps are still open. It invents no cost and changes no price.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Stock count reconciliation
After a physical count, the bookkeeper and the warehouse or store lead get every item counted beside the quantity and value in the books, each difference in units and money, what to check for it, and the items to recount. Nothing is adjusted until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Buyer
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 3 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 10 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs