Overview
The numbers behind a decision, built to be interrogated.
Whether the decision is an investment, a grant, a restructuring or a defence against an audit finding, it rests on a set of numbers that somebody will eventually test. We build them to be tested.
It runs from feasibility and financial modelling through to the work that quietly decides outcomes: value-for-money analysis a funder will accept, transfer pricing that holds, accounting systems that produce clean reporting, and disbursement mechanisms that put funds where they were intended to go.
Model the downside
Appraisals carry the sensitivities and scenarios that show where a case breaks, not only where it works.
Value for money, defined
Economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity assessed explicitly, so that the conclusion is auditable.
Fix the system, not the statement
Recurring audit findings are almost always a systems problem. We design the accounting and control architecture that stops them recurring.
Services
What we deliver in this practice
Each line can be commissioned on its own or combined into a single scope of work.
- 01Feasibility studies and business case developmentTechnical, commercial and financial viability in one assessment.
- 02Financial modelling and investment appraisalStructured models with stated assumptions and sensitivities.
- 03Cost-benefit and value-for-money analysisEconomy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity, evidenced.
- 04Investment readiness and capital raising supportPreparing an organisation and its documentation for external capital.
- 05Due diligenceFinancial, commercial and operational examination ahead of a transaction or award.
- 06Audit support, forensic review and pre-audit assessmentPreparation, response and independent examination where irregularity is suspected.
- 07Tax and transfer pricing advisoryStructuring, documentation and defensibility across jurisdictions.
- 08Accounting systems design and implementationChart of accounts, controls, reporting and system configuration.
- 09Fund management and grant disbursement mechanismsDesign and administration of onward funding to partners.
Standards
The rules this work is held to.
Technical defensibility means working to frameworks a third party already recognises. These are the ones that govern this practice.
- IFRS and IPSAS reporting frameworks
- Value-for-money assessment across economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity
- OECD transfer pricing principles
- Discounted cash flow and investment appraisal method
- Forensic review and pre-audit assessment protocols
Adjacent capability
Work in this practice most often runs into these.
Bring us the constraint, not just the request.
A tender that keeps attracting the wrong bidders, a pipeline nobody can see into, a finding that has to be answered. That is where this practice is most useful.