Cash on hand
$468k
Up $66k on the prior quarter
04of 08Reporting
One pack each month,
written to be acted on.
Most of what a retained engagement produces arrives in a single document. This is what it contains, what it looks like, and how long it should take you to read.
- Delivered
- Days 10–12, every month
- Reading time
- Roughly twenty minutes
- Sections
- Five, in a fixed order
- Followed by
- A working session with you
Why a pack
A dashboard tells you what the numbers are. It does not tell you what they mean, and it never tells you what to do about them. The monthly pack exists because the gap between those three things is where owners actually lose money — the figure was on a screen the whole time, and nobody read it out loud.
So the pack is written, not generated. It answers what happened, what it means, and what now needs deciding, in that order, in language that does not assume an accounting background.
The figures
The month in three numbers
and two charts.
The same artefacts in the same order every month, so you learn where to look: where the cash gets tight, which line is carrying the margin and which is quietly spending it, and what now needs a decision. This is the shape of it.
Gross margin
31.4%
Down 2.1 points on the prior quarter
Days sales outstanding
41 days
Down 7 days on the prior quarter
Thirteen weeks of closing cash
Maintained weekly, not rebuilt in a panic. The plan clears the floor — by eleven days.
- Week 8 trough $264k — eleven days of headroom
- Operating floor $200k
Gross margin by service line
Costed line by line, so a line that is subsidising itself cannot hide inside the blend.
- Blended target 30%
- Flagged for review priced below cost to serve
In the pack
- 01The month in one pageThree numbers and what moved them
- 02Cash & the 13-week runwayClosing balance, week by week
- 03Margin by service lineWhere the gross profit is made
- 04Forecast against planVariance, explained in a sentence
- 05Decisions on the tableWhat needs a call this month
Illustrative figures, drawn to show the form of the reporting. Not client data.
The standard
Four things that hold
in every pack.
- 01
Same shape, every month
The pack does not get redesigned. The sections arrive in the same order so you stop reading it and start scanning it — which is the point at which reporting becomes useful.
- 02
A reading, not a data dump
Every number that moved gets a sentence saying why. If a variance cannot be explained, that is written down too, rather than left for you to notice.
- 03
Delivered on a published calendar
The pack lands between the tenth and the twelfth, and the working session follows within the week. You never have to chase it.
- 04
Fit for an outside reader
The same pack, with its appendices, is what a lender or a board sees. Nothing has to be rebuilt when someone else starts asking.
Before the pack
Reporting is only as good
as the close beneath it.
Where the books need work first, that is said plainly and handled as part of the opening ninety days — a clean chart of accounts and a structured close come before anything gets charted. The engagement chapter sets out how that runs.
Next step
Thirty minutes,
and a straight answer.
Bring one question you cannot currently answer from your own reporting. If a fractional CFO is not the right answer, you will hear that on the call — there is no proposal waiting at the end of it.
- Direct
- jordynsfinance@gmail.com
- Telephone
- 469-248-7336
- Reply
- Within one business day
- Calendar
- Thirty minutes · no charge
- Elsewhere
- @jordynsfinance