Financial Reporting & MIS
A trial balance is not a report. Reporting begins when someone can act on it without asking three follow-up questions.
Financial reporting and MIS is the layer above the books: a monthly pack showing performance against plan, segment or cost-centre profitability, cash position and the operating metrics the business is actually run on, with written commentary explaining what moved and why. It depends entirely on a closed and reconciled ledger, which is why reporting projects usually begin by fixing the close rather than by designing dashboards.
What our reporting service covers
Designed once, delivered on the same date every month.
- A monthly MIS pack designed around the decisions you actually make
- Budget versus actual with written variance commentary
- Segment, product, branch or cost-centre profitability
- Cash flow, working capital and receivable ageing reporting
- KPI dashboards linked back to the ledger rather than maintained separately
- Schedule III financial statements for the board, the bank and the audit
What a reporting pack contains
Four layers, from statements to interpretation.
The monthly pack
Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow in a consistent format, with prior period and budget columns.
Variance analysis
The differences that matter, explained in writing, rather than a table the reader has to interpret alone.
Dashboards
Operating and financial metrics drawn from the same ledger, so the dashboard and the accounts never disagree.
Statutory statements
Schedule III format statements prepared from the same closed books used for management reporting.
Our process
From requirement to a monthly delivery rhythm.
Requirement mapping
Establishing what decisions the reporting has to support and who reads it.
Chart of accounts redesign
Rebuilding accounts, cost centres and tagging so the reports can be produced without manual rework.
Pack build
Designing and building the pack, then producing it for a prior period to test it.
Monthly delivery
Close, pack, commentary and a review discussion on fixed dates.
Why reporting projects fail
What sets our approach apart.
The chart of accounts is usually the constraint
A pack that needs manual reworking every month was designed against an account structure that cannot produce it, and no amount of formatting fixes that.
Commentary is the product
Numbers without an explanation of what moved get skimmed; the written variance analysis is what makes the pack worth reading.
One number, one source
Where dashboards are maintained outside the ledger, they eventually disagree with the accounts, and the reporting loses credibility at the worst moment.
Financial Reporting & MIS questions answered
What people ask before engaging us.
Getting numbers but not answers?
Show us your current pack and we will tell you what it is missing and why.
