Financial analysis and planning for business owners · External FP&A
Can your business earn more? Your numbers have the answer.
Every month we explain what happened to your profit and your cash, and what to do about it. For U.S. privately held businesses with US$2 million to US$30 million in revenue that already have accounting in place and need to understand what their numbers are telling them.
A 20-minute conversation to understand your business and see whether Finanzap can help. Nothing to prepare.
- A monthly review, with a conversation every week
- Works alongside your accountant or CPA
- Fixed monthly fee, not hours
- A service, not an app
- Revenue
- $1.28M
- +6.0% vs budget
- Gross margin
- 31.5%
- −1.7 pts vs budget
- 13-week cash low
- $167K
- Week 9
Gross profit vs. budget, US$ thousands
What deserves attention: revenue is ahead of budget, but discounts gave back almost all of the extra gross profit.The income statement: revenue 6.0% above budget, and gross profit in line with it. At first glance, a good month.What happened: the extra volume came from Industrial supplies (+13.9% against budget). It was bought with discounts.Where it sits: that line’s discount went from 4.0% to 8.6%, mostly in four accounts. A 6% ceiling is worth about $24K a month.What is coming: cash falls below the $200K minimum in weeks 8 to 10. There is time to act.
A 20-minute conversation to understand your business and see whether Finanzap can help. Nothing to prepare.
- A monthly review, with a conversation every week
- Works alongside your accountant or CPA
- Fixed monthly fee, not hours
- A service, not an app
Sound familiar?
You have the numbers. The hard part is deciding with them.
Your books are in order and the reports arrive on time. And still:
- Margins move without clear reasons
- Discounts are given out of habit, not by decision
- Cash is tighter than expected
- Decisions run on gut feel
- It is not clear what to improve first
Tick the ones that sound familiar. We will tell you what answers each one.
This is what answers what you ticked:
Let’s talk about what you ticked
Your message will already carry these topics. The first conversation takes 20 minutes.
What you receive
A report every month, and a conversation every week to decide with it.
- Week 1: the report and the direction
- What changed and why, in green what is worth continuing and in red what needs to stop, plus cash for the next 13 weeks. With that, the direction is set.
- Weeks 2 to 4: from direction to a concrete plan
- One conversation a week: go deeper into the results, weigh the options, and settle what gets done, who owns it and how it is measured.
- The follow-up
- Each report shows how the agreed actions are going.
How it works
Your accountant tells you how much you made and how much you have. On that basis, Finanzap shows you why, and what to do.
Your financial information
You share what your business already produces, plus the business context.
Finanzap analysis
Profitability, cash, working capital, forecast and variances, with the same method every month.
Management review
A monthly review, with a conversation every week, on what changed, why, and what matters.
Decisions with the numbers in front of you
On pricing, discounts, inventory, collections and growth.
- 20+ years of executive financial experience
- Gained at multinationals in consumer, healthcare and industrial businesses.
- Remote by design
- Serving U.S. privately held businesses from Latin America, never more than three hours from any time zone in the contiguous U.S.
- Focused on management questions
- Not bookkeeping, tax preparation, daily finance operations or hourly availability.
Cases by sector
Pick the case closest to your business.
Nine short analyses to read online.
Fit and price
Built for businesses that already have their books in order.
Your financial information exists. Finanzap helps management understand what it means, what is changing and what deserves attention next, without hiring someone full time.
Good fit
Especially distributors, wholesalers and importers; manufacturers too
- Privately held company with roughly US$2 million to US$30 million in annual revenue
- Existing accounting and financial information
- Management wants to know where profit comes from, where cash goes and what is coming
- Willing to use financial information to make decisions
- Looking for an analysis every month, not someone to call at any hour
Not for you
- Looking for accounting, bookkeeping or tax services
- No reliable financial information available
- Looking for a one-time report or project only
- Looking for day-to-day finance operations
- Engineering, software or government contracting businesses
US$3,000 per month
Agreed in advance. No hourly billing and no setup fee.
Two spots at a reduced rate
US$2,000 per month, fixed for 12 months, for the next two clients. In return we ask one thing: a short testimonial once you have seen the results. It can be published without your name.
First-month guarantee
Half when we start and half when you receive your first monthly review. If that review is not useful to you, you skip the second half and the engagement ends. See terms
Want to understand your numbers better?
Start with the financial question you are trying to answer. We can take it from there.
A 20-minute conversation to understand your business and see whether Finanzap can help. Nothing to prepare.