Financial Planning
& Management

Beyond accounting for performance, a company should put its numbers to work to account for and forecast the future. Afterall, the past can no longer be managed, only the future. Therefore, the systematic interpretation of the right set of reliable numbers is critical to guiding the company trajectory towards achieving its strategic plan.

FEOD Executive Partners can complete the following kinds of projects and analyses in a project-based consulting capacity or as a fractional executive. The list below is in no particular order and is intended to give examples of the kind of work that FEOD Executive Partners can do to transform an organization’s financial management function from simply keeping score into a guidance system. If there is interest in engaging FEOD for a project that is not specifically listed here please let us know. FEOD will in all likelihood be able to manage your specific request.

FEOD Executive Partners can among other things:

- Evaluate and update the company’s core financial reporting package, including P+L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and General Ledger detail and support.
- Develop and/or refine accounting/finance logical design to support the financial component of the company’s enterprise system.
- Develop and install a cash forecasting/management system.
- Develop and install a core financial reporting package (if this is missing).
- Organize and/or conduct product inventories.
- Organize and/or conduct product line profit analyses.
- Prepare budgets and model financial outcomes under different management assumptions.
- Determine KPI’s that need exposure to the entire organization and specific functions in organization.
- Develop and install a KPI dashboard presentation to quickly inform management decision making.
- Conduct capital project evaluations and forecast project ROI.
- Prepare and present company financial information required to acquire line of credit.
- Evaluate/guide/forecast KPI outcomes to ensure the company achieves lending agreement financial covenants.
- Prepare and present company financial information that will inform and satisfy inquiries from private equity investors and other kinds of investors.
- Evaluate audit firm performance and recommend changes if necessary.
- Evaluate/score and recommend changes to improve financial checks and balances.