Finance function
The work behind a month-end pack
Five pages from an illustrative firm’s management, board and lender packs. Each says what the numbers mean and what happens next, and each depends on work the reader never sees.
Insights
Articles
Longer pieces on planning, reporting and cash in professional services firms, each worked through on modelled numbers from an illustrative firm.
Newsletter
Realization
One development in the professional services market every two weeks, and what it means for running a PE-backed firm. By Nate Saperia.
Professional services
Professional services is moving beyond the billable hour
AI is weakening the link between effort and value. Measuring the full path from work performed to cash helps firms improve hourly economics now and price fixed-fee or outcome-based work with evidence.