Forecasting and KPIs

Is your business generating the returns you want?

Every growing business can go through phases where profit is minimal or cashflow is strained. How you prepare for and respond to such times is what determines a business’ success and, ultimately, owners’ returns.

Whether your business is emerging or well established, we can help you with a range of services.

How BDO can help:

  • Forecasting and budgeting
  • Financial analysis
  • Using KPI dashboards to key performance drivers

Planning for success

Forecasting and budgeting helps you to assess the impact of business decisions on the cashflow and profitability of your business.

Using a scenario approach to forecasting, BDO can help you:

  • Understand your profitability drivers
  • Consider the risk, rewards and timing of investment decisions
  • Determine your cash needs and working capital requirements
  • Develop credible, three-way forecasts
  • Develop action plans for enhancing the profitability of your business.

The next step is to gain deeper insight to identify your core financial drivers.


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Financial analysis

Often, business owners rely solely on financial statements to tell them how their business is performing. Our financial analysts can give you deeper insight and help you look behind the numbers to identify your core financial drivers.

Our BDO team can help you:

  • Assess the financial impact of strategic and operational decisions
  • Identify trends in financial performance an drivers behind them
  • Identify and manage the risks for your business
  • Develop dashboards to help you visualise the performance of your business
  • Tweak the business models to get the outcomes you want.


KPI Dashboards

With systems like FUTRLI and Spotlight Reporting transform the way you see your business.

What gets measured, gets managed. As your business grows, there is great need to make sure your people are working on the right things to achieve your business goals. With FUTRLI, your people can literally see how their area of the business is performing.

Our team can customise and automate our simple, user-friendly FUTRLI so you can access real-time data on how your business is performing.

Our BDO team can help you:

  • Identify the most important KPIs
  • Develop dashboards for your managers
  • Manage performance
  • Make informed business decisions.

Get the systems right and learn to apply KPIs more effectively. Contact BDO to find out how.



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