Outcome: Decision quality ↑
Activity-Based Costing as a Death-Spiral Guard
Traditional costing can make the wrong product look profitable or unprofitable. This framework uses ABC logic to show which products actually consume overhead activity. It helps prevent cross-subsidization, bad...
Traditional costing can make the wrong product look profitable or unprofitable. This framework uses ABC logic to show which products actually consume overhead activity. It helps prevent cross-subsidization, bad product cuts, and death-spiral decisions.
Cash-Profit Bridge for SMEs
When the bank account does not match the P&L. Helps owners and finance leaders separate profit issues from working-capital timing, debt payments, capex, taxes, and distributions.
When the bank account does not match the P&L. Helps owners and finance leaders separate profit issues from working-capital timing, debt payments, capex, taxes, and distributions.
Intercompany Margin Distortion Control
Prevents transfer-pricing cost signals from distorting commercial decisions when intercompany products are sold cross-border and foreign sales teams are measured on contribution margin. It decomposes the interc...
Prevents transfer-pricing cost signals from distorting commercial decisions when intercompany products are sold cross-border and foreign sales teams are measured on contribution margin. It decomposes the intercompany cost stack, discloses the enterprise-view margin alongside the local view, and routes high-impact decisions through a named owner.
Capex Investment Post-Implementation Review Gate
For companies that approve capital projects but do not verify whether the promised savings, revenue, capacity, or efficiency benefits actually materialized. This framework creates a structured 12-, 24-, and 36...
For companies that approve capital projects but do not verify whether the promised savings, revenue, capacity, or efficiency benefits actually materialized. This framework creates a structured 12-, 24-, and 36-month lookback for material capex projects and evaluates performance using residual income, not ROI alone, because ROI can hide whether the project actually exceeded the cost of capital.
Surplus Cash Allocation Framework
A six-layer waterfall that decides what to do with surplus cash: liquidity first, then committed obligations, working capital, reinvestment, debt reduction, and only then distribution. Forces every dollar to pa...
A six-layer waterfall that decides what to do with surplus cash: liquidity first, then committed obligations, working capital, reinvestment, debt reduction, and only then distribution. Forces every dollar to pass a use-of-cash test before it leaves the company.