Your accounts tell you what happened. Not what to do.
A tax return is a report to the government. It arrives months late and answers none of the questions you actually have about your own business. Management accounts are the other thing — written for you, arriving while the month is still worth acting on.
- Which of your products or services made the most profit last month — not the most revenue, the most profit?
- What is your gross margin this month, and is it higher or lower than three months ago?
- How much cash will you have in eight weeks, if nothing unusual happens?
- Which customer costs you the most to serve, once you count everything?
- Are you ahead of or behind the plan you set at the start of the year, and by how much?
- If sales dropped 20% next quarter, at what point would you have a problem?
One document a month, written to be read by you.
Not a data dump. Not fifteen tabs. A short pack that tells you where the business is, what changed, and what deserves your attention this month.
Profit and loss, explained
Not just the figures — what moved since last month and why, in sentences rather than columns.
Profitability by product or service line
Which lines earn their keep and which are carried by the others. Usually the most uncomfortable page, and the most useful.
Gross margin trend
Tracked month on month, so erosion shows up while it's still small enough to fix.
Cash flow forecast
Rolling thirteen weeks. The single report that prevents the worst kind of surprise.
Budget versus actual
Where you are against the plan, with the variances that matter separated from the noise.
The short list
Three or four things worth your attention this month, and what I'd look at first.
If the books aren't being kept properly, I keep them.
Management accounts are only as honest as the records under them. A pack built on a file where the bank hasn't been reconciled since March, or where half the costs sit in one catch-all account, will look convincing and quietly mislead you. That is worse than having nothing.
So where the underlying bookkeeping needs doing — or needs cleaning up first — I do it as part of the same monthly arrangement. Bank and card reconciliation, supplier and customer ledgers, chart of accounts structured so the reports mean something, and a proper month-end close.
It isn't a separate service with a separate invoice. It's how the pack gets built, and it's included in the one monthly fee. Businesses that already have a bookkeeper they trust simply don't need this part, and don't pay for it.
Businesses past the point where instinct is enough.
Usually somewhere between a bookkeeper and a finance director — too big to run on feel, too small to hire someone at that level.
You hold stock
Distribution, retail, manufacturing, trading. Inventory hides profit and loss better than anything else on a balance sheet.
You have several revenue lines
Total profit is knowable. Where it comes from isn't, and the two are frequently not what you'd guess.
Your books are done, but unused
Someone keeps the records. Nobody turns them into a decision. That gap is the whole job.
You're planning something
Raising money, adding a location, hiring, or selling. Each needs numbers that stand up to a stranger's questions.
A cost and management accountant — and someone who runs a business.
Management accounting is my actual discipline, not a service line added on. Fifteen years of it, across manufacturing, distribution, retail and telecom — the industries where costing is difficult rather than the ones where it's arithmetic.
I've also run my own company for three years. So I know what it's like to read your own accounts and still not be sure what to do about them. That's the gap these packs are built to close.
- Qualifications
- ACMA (Finalist) · MBA Finance · LLB
- Sectors
- Manufacturing, distribution, retail, telecom — plus three years as a company CEO
- Systems built
- SAP Business One deployment with product-wise profitability reporting; a daily reconciliation system that surfaced inventory and cash discrepancies manual records had absorbed silently
- Tools
- QuickBooks, Xero, Excel and Google Sheets — whatever you already run, rather than something new to learn
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Send me last month's P&L. I'll tell you what it isn't telling you.
A short written read-back — what your own numbers already show, and the questions they can't yet answer. No charge, no obligation, and no follow-up unless you ask for one.
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