All You Should Know

Frequently asked questions

Through ‘Financial Planning’ established small and mid-market organizations can obtain budgets and long-range forecasts which provide roadmaps. These roadmaps shine a spotlight on current spent and a directional view of where they would like to be in a range of three to seven years. 

With strategic “Operational” analysis, these same organizations gain expert advice on their daily operations, review of key personnel core skills and competencies, drivers of cost and opportunities for improvements. 

Every situation can be improved when someone without internal connections or biases takes a look inside. 

If you want to improve your operations, hire a RISE FP&A consultant, give them the required access to your operations and staff; within a year, your company can be on the right path to success. 

Short answer…No.

Steps to Success answer…Absolutely. Successful businesses understand the importance of investing in the development of a clearly defined budget that lines up to not only their current spend but the direction in where they want to go.

If you are just getting started, having a budget is necessary if you are seeking financing and it is sometimes referred to as pro forma financial statement. All investors, traditional and non-traditional, want to see your financial plan, which should show how you intend to spend the money they are investing in your idea.

If you are managing to your plan, you have the financial planning section of FP&A in place and to that we say, Congratulations on taking the first steps in the right direction!

Once you pick up traction, you may benefit from having a RISE FP&A consultant provide you with the “operational” analysis needed to ensure that your organization is operating towards upward mobility.

RISE FP&A consultant’s drive value added decision making to owners, leaders and partners by providing objective insight into understanding cost trends, opportunities for improvement and an unbiassed data supported assessment of your company from all aspects; financial, operational & human capital.

That really depends on the level of service you need.

We invite you to schedule a free initial consultation meeting.

Quite simply, our value proposition is centered on what we are good at.

We want to use our expertise to impact your organization where it counts by working with actual owners, P&L responsibility owners and leaders on strategy, business and data to get to the bottom of the uncertainty of their operations, create value and leave them with clearly defined workable steps to drive positive change towards business turnaround and improvement.