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Annual Budget Plan — Build the Budget From Drivers

Build next year's operating budget from the drivers behind it (volumes, prices, headcount, rates) instead of last year plus a percentage, with the assumptions listed and the math shown.

You're an FP&A lead who builds budgets people can defend line by line, because every number traces back to a driver. Bui...

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Rolling Forecast Update — Reforecast From Actuals and Drivers

Update the full-year forecast with actuals to date and changed drivers, explain every change from the last forecast, and flag the calls that need a decision.

You're a senior FP&A analyst who runs the monthly reforecast and can explain every movement in one sentence. Update my f...

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Scenario Analysis — Base, Upside and Downside With the Math

Model base, upside and downside cases from the drivers that matter most, show what each does to revenue, profit and cash, and set the triggers that tell you which case you're in.

You're a corporate finance manager who builds scenarios leadership can act on, not three numbers picked to look reasonab...

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Headcount Plan — Cost of Every Hire, Month by Month

Turn a hiring plan into a monthly people cost forecast with salaries, start dates, employer costs and ramp, and show what changes if hires start late.

You're an FP&A partner to the people team who knows headcount is usually the biggest cost and the easiest to get wrong. ...

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Budget vs Actual Variance Analysis — Explain What Moved and Why

Compare actuals with budget or forecast, calculate the variances, separate volume, price and timing, and write the commentary finance and department heads need.

You're a finance manager whose variance commentary managers actually read, because it explains causes, not just differen...

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Monthly Management Report — The Numbers and the Story

Turn the month's financial results into a short management report: headline results, what drove them, KPIs, cash, risks and the decisions leadership needs to make.

You're a head of FP&A who writes monthly reports that busy executives read in five minutes. Draft this month's report. ...

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Board Deck Finance Section — Results, Outlook and Asks

Draft the finance section of a board deck: results against plan, the full-year outlook, cash and runway, key risks and what the board is being asked to approve.

You're a CFO who has presented to boards for years and knows directors want the truth, the trend and the ask. Draft my f...

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KPI Definitions — One Source of Truth for Every Metric

Write clear definitions for your company's KPIs, with the formula, data source, owner, timing and common traps, so every team calculates them the same way.

You're a finance systems lead who has ended too many meetings spent arguing about whose number is right. Write our KPI d...

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SaaS Metrics Review — ARR, Churn, NRR and CAC Payback From Your Numbers

Calculate and explain the core subscription metrics (ARR, growth, gross and net revenue retention, churn, CAC payback, burn multiple) from your own data, with the formulas shown.

You're a SaaS CFO who calculates metrics the way investors expect and says which definition was used. Review my metrics....

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Month-End Close Checklist — Tasks, Owners and Deadlines by Day

Build a month-end close checklist by business day, with tasks, owners, dependencies and review steps, and find where the close usually gets stuck.

You're a controller who took a messy 12-day close down to 5 days without cutting corners. Build my close checklist. Our...

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Account Reconciliation Review — Find and Explain the Differences

Work through a balance sheet or bank reconciliation: compare the balances, sort the differences into timing, errors and unknowns, and list the entries and follow-ups to clear them.

You're a senior accountant who can find the difference in a reconciliation faster than anyone on the team. Help me work ...

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Journal Entry Support Memo — Document the Why Behind an Entry

Write the supporting memo for a manual or unusual journal entry: what happened, the calculation, the accounts, the evidence and the approvals, so reviewers and auditors can follow it.

You're an accounting manager whose support files auditors never have to ask twice about. Write the memo for this entry. ...

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Audit Request List Tracker — Get Ready for the Auditors

Turn the auditors' request list into a tracker with owners, due dates, status and a prep plan, and spot the requests that usually cause delays before fieldwork starts.

You're a controller who has run a dozen year-end audits and finishes fieldwork on time. Build my audit prep tracker. Th...

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Accounts Receivable Aging Review — Who to Chase and What to Flag

Review the AR aging, rank customers by risk and amount, plan collection actions, and flag balances for the bad-debt allowance review, with DSO calculated from your numbers.

You're a credit and collections manager who brings DSO down without damaging customer relationships. Review my AR aging....

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Vendor Payment Run Review — Checks Before Money Leaves

Review a proposed vendor payment run before approval: duplicates, changed bank details, unusual amounts, early payments and cash impact, with fraud red flags called out.

You're an AP manager who has stopped duplicate payments and fake bank-detail changes before they went out. Review my pay...

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Working Capital Review — DSO, DPO and Inventory Days With the Math

Calculate days sales outstanding, days payable outstanding, days inventory and the cash conversion cycle, show how much cash each day is worth, and find practical ways to free cash.

You're a treasury and working capital specialist who turns ratios into cash. Review my working capital. Revenue and cos...

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Capital Request Review — NPV, Payback and the Questions to Ask

Evaluate a capital or project request with net present value, internal rate of return and payback from the cash flows provided, and list the assumptions that most need challenging.

You're a corporate finance manager who reviews capital requests and knows most of them are too optimistic. Evaluate this...

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Pricing Change Impact — Revenue and Margin Before You Change Prices

Model a price change before it happens: revenue and gross margin at different volume responses, the break-even volume change, and the customers and contracts affected.

You're a pricing finance analyst who makes sure a price change is judged on margin, not just revenue. Model this change....

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Cost Reduction Review — Find Savings Without Breaking Things

Review a cost base to find realistic savings: sort spend into categories, spot waste and overlap, size each idea, and rank them by saving, risk and effort.

You're a finance business partner who has found savings without the damage that blanket cuts cause. Review my costs. Sp...

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Build vs Buy — Total Cost of Ownership Over Five Years

Compare building a tool in-house with buying or subscribing, on five-year total cost of ownership, time to value, risk and control, with the numbers side by side.

You're a finance lead who evaluates technology decisions on total cost, not just the license price. Compare these option...

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Finance Explainer — Explain a Number to Non-Finance Colleagues

Explain a financial result, metric or policy to people outside finance in plain language, with an example, what it means for them and what they can do about it.

You're a finance business partner known for explaining numbers so that engineers, marketers and sales teams actually get...

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Spreadsheet Model Review — Check a Model Before Anyone Relies on It

Review a financial model's structure, formulas and assumptions before it's used for a decision: hard-coded numbers, broken links, inconsistent formulas, circular logic and missing checks.

You're a financial model auditor who has found the error that would have sunk a deal. Review my model. What the model i...

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Internal Controls Walkthrough — Document a Process and Its Risks

Document a finance process step by step, identify what could go wrong, map the controls that prevent or catch it, and find gaps such as missing segregation of duties.

You're an internal controls lead who documents processes so clearly that new staff and auditors can follow them. Walk th...

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Excel Formula Builder — The Formula, How It Works and How to Check It

Get the spreadsheet formula for a finance task, such as lookups, date math, running totals or conditional sums, with an explanation, a test case and the common ways it breaks.

You're a finance systems analyst who writes spreadsheet formulas that the next person can read and trust. Build the form...

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