EVIDENCE

Case studies

Evidence from FP&A work inside investor-backed businesses.

Synamedia

Permira-backed at the time

From 2-3 weeks of reporting alignment to one global view of performance

Standardised KPIs, reporting cycles and planning across a $450-500m global business, with month-end cut from 6-7 days to 3-4 days.

6-7 → 3-4 days month-end

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Lawyers on Demand

Then backed by Bowmark

From 8 to 10 days of manual board reporting to board-ready insight in under two minutes

A repeatable reporting environment replaced manual reconciliation across three sources, and improved visibility identified approximately £350,000 of unbilled revenue.

8-10 days → under 2 minutes

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From a KPI book to 18 measures the board can interrogate

How ABCL helped a PE-backed technology group pursuing buy-and-build turn a documented KPI book into 18 live measures, connect five categories of source data and answer pipeline questions inside the board meeting rather than after it.

18 live KPIs

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From answers that took weeks to evidence that stood up to scrutiny

How ABCL helped a PE-backed technology and managed services group connect its data, state the limits of its own analysis and build confidence in the numbers during an ownership transition.

Days/weeks to minutes/hours

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