Forecasting & financial models
Translate operating assumptions into a useful view of performance, cash, risk, and the choices ahead.
Financial clarity for better business decisions.
We help business leaders improve forecasting, sharpen analysis, streamline financial processes, and turn complex information into practical action.
Start a conversationA practical view of finance
Good financial work connects the detail to the decision.
Reports, models, and processes earn their value when they make the business easier to understand and the next move easier to evaluate.
The work begins with the operating question, focuses on the information that matters, and ends with a clear course of action.
Expertise
Where the firm adds value
Focused support for the financial and operating questions that deserve senior attention.
Business analysis & reporting
Organize financial and operating information around the questions management needs to answer.
Process improvement & systems
Simplify workflows, reduce unnecessary complexity, and strengthen the systems behind reliable information.
Financial & operational leadership
Bring an independent executive perspective to growth, change, and business initiatives that require careful judgment.
When to engage
When the numbers are available, but the answer is not.
The firm is most useful when a decision crosses financial and operating lines, existing reports do not explain what is happening, or the next move needs a disciplined financial view.
The forecast needs to withstand scrutiny.
Connect operating assumptions to performance, cash, capacity, and risk so leadership can evaluate the plan on its merits.
Performance is harder to explain than it should be.
Reframe reporting around the drivers of the business and the questions management actually needs to answer.
A process consumes time without producing clarity.
Simplify the workflow, strengthen the information behind it, and establish a more reliable way of working.
An important initiative needs financial discipline.
Bring an independent financial and operating perspective to growth, change, systems, and other consequential decisions.
Leadership
Senior experience. Direct involvement.
Mike Dolan is President of Financial and Accounting Consultants, Inc. He leads the firm’s work and remains involved from the initial conversation through the analysis and recommendations.
His background includes leadership roles across finance, operations, technology, sales operations, inventory management, and business analysis. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Public Accounting from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business.
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Contact
Discuss your financial and operating priorities.
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