A prepared working record
A source-linked management pack and exceptions register, with a rerun guide and documented assumptions.
PE portfolio companies / A practical workflow
Prepare one company’s management report
The operating team needs a recurring report whose numbers can be traced, before considering whether its preparation pattern transfers elsewhere.
From input to handoffThe source stays
The source stays
with the work.
One possible workflow, with the preparation and review responsibilities made clear.
- 01 / The starting point
Agreed finance and operations exports, the reporting period, and metric definitions owned by that company.
- 02 / The right context
Map source fields, check completeness, and surface definition changes or period mismatches. Keep company-specific adjustments separate from reusable formatting.
- 03 / Prepared for review
A source-linked management pack and exceptions register, with a rerun guide and documented assumptions.
- 04 / A person decides
The company’s finance or operating owner checks the figures and approves circulation to the agreed portfolio audience.
Tangible work
What the next person receives.
A clear review route
The company’s finance or operating owner checks the figures and approves circulation to the agreed portfolio audience.
An agreed scope
Portfolio oversight does not grant access to all company records. Cross-company comparisons require compatible definitions; no EBITDA improvement is promised.
Agree what good looks likeA useful result
A useful result
can be checked.
The acceptance decision
A metric-definition change during the period is flagged with its source version and a question for the metric owner.
Include the difficult case
Try a revenue field whose definition changed during the reporting period. The pack should flag the comparability break, show the source version, and ask the metric owner how to present the difference.
Keep the scope clear
Portfolio oversight does not grant access to all company records. Cross-company comparisons require compatible definitions; no EBITDA improvement is promised.
How we validate the work ↗A first conversationBring the job.
Bring the job.
We’ll shape the brief.
Start with a general outline of this workflow and the team that owns it.
Plan this workflowThree useful questions
Which recurring report, company, and reporting period should the first scope cover?
Who owns the metric definitions and decides how definition changes are presented?
Who checks the pack and approves its circulation to the agreed audience?