For corporate finances

FP&A, corporate development, treasury, and investor relations inside a company.

Peer benchmarking straight from XBRL, variance and price-volume-mix bridges from your exports, driver-based forecasts, 13-week cash, covenant calculators, guidance versus consensus, earnings scripts and Q&A banks, and target screens for corporate development.

144
tools for this seat
6
specialties covered
426h
of analyst time per full pass
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The day, by level

Analyst / Senior analyst

Budget versus actual, the variance pack, the reforecast, the board slides, the cash forecast.

Manager / Director

Owns the driver model and the planning calendar, the covenant certificate, the hedge program, the target screen.

VP / CFO

Capital allocation, guidance, the earnings call, and the board's questions.

What it takes off your plate

  • Benchmarking against peers by opening ten 10-Qs
  • Writing variance commentary that reconciles price, volume and mix exactly
  • Rolling the 13-week cash forecast and explaining last week's miss
  • Prepping the earnings Q&A by reading what peers were asked
  • Recomputing the covenant certificate from the credit agreement definition

Data behind it

  • •Peer XBRL facts for margins, working capital and leverage
  • •Guidance language from 8-K Item 2.02 and the 10-Q
  • •Your GL, budget and treasury exports, pasted or uploaded
  • •13F and 13D holdings for shareholder analysis

The toolkit

144 tools for corporate finances

Reporting

21
Earnings-day comps refresh
What last night's print did to the comps sheet, and the note that goes to the deal team.
Peer benchmark for the CFO and board
Growth, margins, opex ratios, working capital, and leverage versus peers, translated into dollars of gap.
Variance commentary writer
Budget vs actual pack from a pasted export: variances computed in code, top drivers explained, commentary drafted.
PVM revenue bridge narrative
Price, volume, mix, new, and discontinued effects from a sales cube, reconciled to the total and explained.
SaaS metrics & board pack
ARR waterfall, NRR, CAC payback, burn multiple and Rule of 40 from a billing export, benchmarked by stage.
Working capital benchmark & cash unlock
DSO, DIO, DPO and the cash conversion cycle versus peers from XBRL, with the cash each gap is worth.
Post-merger synergy tracker
Realization against the deal model by initiative, with phasing curves, slippage, and the steerco report.
Price / volume / mix bridge
Decomposes a revenue variance into price, volume, mix, new and discontinued, reconciled to the total.
Cash conversion cycle & unlock
DSO + DIO − DPO, the working capital it ties up, and the cash released at peer-median days.
FX sensitivity
Revenue, EBITDA and EPS at spot versus budget rates, by currency, net of hedges.
Number tie-out guardian
Every number in the deck checked against the model, by slide, cell and magnitude.
Price-volume-mix bridge
SKU-level price, volume, mix, new and discontinued effects that sum exactly to the revenue change.
Peer disclosure benchmarker
One footnote across several tickers, side by side, with the assumptions pulled out.
SEC comment letter search
What the staff asked, how the company answered, and what it would ask you.
Comment letter trend analysis
Which topics the staff is pressing this year, ranked, with the language that triggers a letter.
XBRL fact consistency checker
Tie the tagged facts to each other and to the peer set before the filing goes out.
Disclosure checklist runner
Your draft note against the codification requirements and what peers actually filed.
New standard impact scanner
How early adopters filed it, what it will do to your numbers, and the implementation plan.
S-X significance tester
Investment, asset and income tests for Rules 3-05, 3-09 and 4-08(g), with the filing consequence.
Flux analysis commentary writer
Dual-threshold variance analysis with a named driver and evidence for every account.
Month-end close checklist generator
A day-by-day close calendar with owners, dependencies and the recurring entries.

Accounting & audit

19
Close flux & balance explanations
Trial-balance deltas turned into material flux narratives for the audit committee and the auditors.
KPI definitions & non-GAAP reconciliations
Write the definitions, build the reconciliation tables, and test them against Reg G and Item 10(e).
ASC 606 revenue memo
The five-step analysis of a real contract, with codification cites and the entries.
ASC 842 lease memo & IBR support
Classification against the five criteria, an incremental borrowing rate you can defend, and the schedule.
ASC 805 purchase price allocation memo
Consideration, identifiable intangibles by method, goodwill as the residual, and the peer allocation mix.
ASC 350 goodwill impairment assessment
Step zero factors, the one-step quantitative test, and the market capitalization reconciliation.
ASC 718 stock compensation memo
Grant-date fair value, attribution, modifications and the peer volatility and forfeiture benchmarks.
ASC 326 CECL allowance memo
Lifetime expected credit losses by pool, the loss-rate build, and peer allowance ratios.
ASC 450 loss contingency memo
Probable and reasonably estimable, the range, and the disclosure that satisfies the SEC staff.
IFRS vs US GAAP difference register
The differences that actually hit your accounts, quantified where the filings allow.
Critical audit matter extraction & comparison
Every CAM in a peer set, the procedures performed, and what the auditor is worried about.
Journal entry testing
Completeness roll-forward, fraud filters, a risk score per entry, and the selection with rationale.
Going concern assessment
Conditions, management's plans, and whether substantial doubt is alleviated - with the report language.
Walkthrough & risk-control matrix drafter
Process notes into a narrative, what-could-go-wrongs, controls and test attributes.
Control deficiency evaluator
Deficiency, significant deficiency or material weakness - and the letter that says so.
Account reconciliation review
Review a pasted reconciliation the way a controller does: does it tie, is the item supported, how old is it.
ASC 606 price allocation
Relative standalone-selling-price allocation with the discount test.
ASC 842 lease schedule
Classification, present value, and the liability and right-of-use rollforward.
Basic and diluted EPS
Treasury stock method, if-converted, and the antidilution ordering.

Modeling

17
NPV, IRR & payback
Capital budgeting on any cash-flow schedule with a discount-rate sensitivity.
Synergy & accretion workflow
Announced-synergy benchmarks, the EPS build, and the synergies needed to justify the premium.
Bank M&A: TBV dilution & earnback
Marks, cost saves, tangible book dilution and the earnback period that decides bank deals.
Merger model: accretion / dilution
Offer, sources and uses, purchase accounting, pro forma EPS and the break-even synergies.
Contribution analysis
Who brings what to the merger, against who owns what afterwards.
Exchange ratio, floating & collar
Who bears the price risk between signing and close, across a grid of acquirer prices.
Management equity (MIP) waterfall
Hurdles, catch-up, ratchet and vesting: what management actually receives at exit.
Synergy & accretion deal memo
Populates the merger model from XBRL, tests the synergy case, and writes the investment committee memo.
FX exposure & layered hedge ratio
Policy hedge ratios by quarter, the incremental notional to trade, and the exposure still at risk.
Interest rate swap breakeven
What the floating index has to do for a pay-fixed swap to pay off, and the carry until it does.
Accretion / dilution
Offer, funding mix, synergies and EPS: accretion, breakeven synergies and pro forma leverage.
Capital allocation ranking
NPV, IRR, payback and profitability index by project, funded greedily against the budget.
Market model workbench
Top-down and bottom-up sizing, reconciled, with every input sourced and confidence-tagged.
Pricing & pocket-price analysis
List to pocket price leakage by customer, with the durability test on every price increase.
Market sizing: top-down & bottom-up
TAM to SAM to SOM, a unit-economics bottom-up, and the 15% convergence test between them.
Price-volume-mix decomposition
SKU-level price, volume, mix, new and discontinued effects that tie to the dollar.
Cost to serve & unit economics
Activity-based cost per customer, contribution after serving, and the whale curve.

Diligence

13
Merger proxy miner
Background of the merger, fairness ranges, adviser fees and projections out of a DEFM14A.
Activism vulnerability screen
How an activist would attack this company, scored across the five standard dimensions.
Deal protection benchmark
Termination fees, reverse fees and go-shops, benchmarked against real merger agreements.
Quality of earnings add-back tester
Every proposed add-back categorized, tested, and priced at your entry multiple.
Net debt & debt-like items checklist
Everything that should come off the purchase price before the wire goes out.
Net working capital peg
Monthly balances in, trailing-twelve-month peg out, with seasonality and the true-up.
Bank relationship RFP scorecard
Fees, wallet share versus credit provided, a weighted scorecard, and the RFP question set.
Peer benchmark builder
Quartile benchmarking on margins, SG&A, R&D and working capital, with the gap to median in dollars.
Revenue build & cohort engine
Cohort retention, GRR and NRR, concentration and pipeline coverage from a transaction export.
Add-back tester
Every seller add-back tested for recurrence, support and category, with the price impact at the multiple.
NWC peg analyzer
Monthly working capital, seasonality, the TTM-average peg, and the adjustments that move the price.
NWC peg: TTM average & seasonality
Monthly working capital, four candidate pegs, the seasonal index and the price impact.
Benchmark quartile spread
Quartiles, the subject's percentile, and the gap to median and top quartile in dollars.

Planning & forecasting

12
Driver-based forecast studio
Turns driver history into a rolling 12-24 month forecast with scenarios and a forecast-accuracy read.
Quarterly reforecast
Actuals plus a rebuilt remainder: forecast-over-forecast deltas, the R&O list, and what to tell the CFO.
13-week cash copilot
Roll the direct-method forecast forward from actuals, attribute last week's variance, flag minimum-cash breaches.
Cash pooling & liquidity structure
Entity and currency map into a pooling design: header accounts, sweeps, intercompany terms, trapped cash.
Headcount plan roll-up
Fully loaded cost by month and department from a hiring plan, with attrition and exit run-rate.
Forecast accuracy scorecard
MAPE, bias and hit rate by line and period, so chronic optimism shows up by name.
Issue tree & workplan studio
A MECE decomposition of the client question, with an owner, source and date on every leaf.
Cost baseline & zero-based targets
GL mapped to categories and owners, then targets set from peer SG&A quartiles rather than last year.
Cost structure benchmark from SEC data
Cost of revenue, SG&A, R&D and working-capital days against peer quartiles, with the tag on every line.
Operating model & org design
Spans, layers and decision rights from an org file, with two or three structural options costed.
Zero-based budgeting savings scenario
Category gaps to a peer benchmark, a capture rate, the ramp, and the year-one landing.
Forecast with honest intervals
Paste a series, get the M4-style forecast and conformal 80%/95% bands with a backtest

Valuation

11
Peer benchmarking
Growth, margins, cash conversion, and leverage versus a peer set, with the gaps explained.
Precedent transactions from EDGAR
Real deals from merger proxies and 8-Ks: EV, multiples, premiums, and terms.
DCF valuation
Unlevered free cash flow, two terminal methods, and a WACC × growth sensitivity.
WACC
Cost of equity via CAPM, after-tax cost of debt, and the weighted rate with a beta × ERP grid.
Treasury stock method & EV bridge
Options, RSUs, warrants and converts to diluted shares, then equity value to enterprise value.
Premium analysis
Premiums to every reference price, and the multiples the offer implies.
Calendarization & LTM / NTM
Off-cycle fiscal years standardized to December, with LTM built from the stubs.
Ability to pay
Solve the maximum entry multiple that still clears your hurdle IRR.
Goodwill impairment test
Reporting-unit fair value against carrying amount, with the charge and the headroom.
Monte Carlo DCF
A DCF as a distribution: correlated inputs, P10/P50/P90 per share, and what drives the spread
Beta estimator
Raw, Blume-adjusted and Welch betas with standard errors, and the cost of equity

Credit & restructuring

11
Reported vs covenant vs agency leverage
The three leverage numbers on one bridge, with every adjustment named.
Liquidity runway & 13-week cash flow
Weekly receipts and disbursements to the trough week and the date a deal is required.
Covenant headroom & breach EBITDA
Headroom by quarter, the EBITDA decline that breaches, and what an add-back haircut does.
Covenant compliance & headroom
Net leverage, coverage and FCCR against the levels, with the EBITDA cushion in dollars.
Covenant definitions & compliance certificate
Reads the credit agreement for lender-defined EBITDA, then computes the ratios and drafts the certificate.
Covenant headroom calculator
Net leverage, interest coverage, FCCR and liquidity against the limits, with cushion and a stress grid.
Debt schedule & interest
Tranche-level amortization, the maturity wall, weighted average cost and the floating-rate sensitivity.
13-week cash flow engine
Receipts, disbursements and financing by week from the agings, with headroom against minimum cash.
Liquidity triage & CRO 30-60-90
Runway, covenant headroom and maturities from the filings, then the first 90 days of a CRO.
13-week cash flow
Weekly receipts, disbursements, revolver draws and headroom against a minimum-cash policy.
Credit scorecard
Altman Z and Z'', Ohlson O-score and Merton distance to default, as one implied rating

Research

9
10-K / 10-Q teardown
What changed, what management said, and what the footnotes hide.
Research brief
A sourced answer to any market, company, or deal question.
Sector KPI extractor
The KPIs that are not in XBRL: ARR and NRR, PV-10 and boe/d, CET1, FFO, backlog, same-store sales.
Guidance vs consensus analyzer
Guidance history from 8-K releases and 10-Qs, beat/miss pattern, and where pasted consensus sits in the range.
Shareholder base & investor targeting
Holders from 13F and 13D/G filings, style mix, peer-holder overlap, and a ranked targeting list.
IR disclosure benchmark
What peers disclose that you do not: KPIs, segments, guidance metrics, non-GAAP, and the cost of adding each.
Profit pool mapper
Revenue and margin by value-chain step from segment disclosures, reconciled to the industry total.
Competitor profile generator
One sourced page per competitor from their own 10-K, with a confidence tag on every field.
NPS & survey statistics
Net promoter score with its confidence interval, plus the sample size the read-out needs.

Capital markets

9
IPO valuation & discount workflow
Comps to value, the IPO discount to a range, and what the range implies for ownership.
IPO comps from 424B4s
Every recent IPO in the sector: price versus range, spread, greenshoe, lock-up and aftermarket.
Bond new-issue terms extractor
Every tranche from the FWP and prospectus supplement: spread, make-whole, par call, fees.
Debt capacity solver
The binding constraint among leverage, coverage, fixed charges and covenant cushion.
Bond math: yield, duration & make-whole
Yield to maturity and worst, duration, DV01, convexity and the make-whole redemption price.
Refinancing NPV
Present value of the savings against the premium and fees, with the break-even.
Follow-on & block pricing
Expected discount from size versus ADTV, deal type, seller and volatility.
Convertible pricing
Bond floor plus option value, delta, and the coupon-premium indifference grid.
Buyback vs dividend
EPS accretion, pro forma leverage and payout coverage for the same dollars returned two ways.

Deliverables

6
Company one-pager
A pitch-ready profile of any US-listed company, every number cited.
Board deck narrative
Action titles, the storyline, and speaker notes for the CFO section, built from your metrics table.
Corp dev target one-pager
The page you take to the deal review committee: fit, financials, price to acquire, and the first diligence questions.
100-day integration plan
Day 1 readiness through Day 100 by workstream, with the synergy tracker fields and the first steerco report.
Hypothesis-driven storyline
Governing thought, key lines and support: the pyramid before anyone builds a chart.
Ghost deck generator
Action titles in SCQA order with the exhibit each slide needs, before anyone opens PowerPoint.

Tax

5
ASC 740 provision & valuation allowance memo
Current and deferred, the rate reconciliation in ASU 2023-09 categories, and the valuation allowance evidence.
Effective tax rate benchmarker
Statutory to effective across a peer set in the eight ASU 2023-09 categories.
Transfer pricing benchmark
Comparable margins from public filings to support an intercompany price.
ASC 740 rate reconciliation
Statutory to effective rate, in dollars and percentage points.
Section 382 limitation
What a loss carryforward is worth after an ownership change.

Communication

4
Earnings Q&A bank generator
The most likely analyst questions, mined from your filings and your peers' 10-Qs, with answer frames and proof points.
Earnings call script drafter
Prepared remarks in your prior-quarter voice, with the constant-currency and non-GAAP bridges built in.
Earnings release drafter
The 8-K press release in your own house format, with Reg G reconciliations and the guidance table.
SteerCo update drafter
Progress vs plan, findings, decisions required, risks and next steps, in the standard order.

Screening

3
Target list & acquisition screen
Buy-side long list to short list, scored on fit, multiple and affordability.
Target screen from public comps
Build the buy-list: public peers, the private universe they imply, and the ones that screen for a sponsor.
M&A target screener
Screens public companies on capability keywords, size, growth and margins, then scores strategic fit.

Sourcing & deals

2
Add-on acquisition screen
Bolt-on candidates for a platform, with the multiple arbitrage and integration order.
Pipeline forecast
How many deals close and what they are worth, as a range, not a weighted total

Portfolio

2
Value creation & 100-day plan
An EBITDA bridge by initiative, with the first 100 days carved out and owned.
Value at risk with a backtest
One-day VaR and expected shortfall three ways, a GARCH forecast, and a Kupiec test

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