Financial forecasting

1. Brief service summary

Build financial projections consistent with your activity assumptions. Forecasting enables possible changes in profit, financial structure and resource needs to be examined before decisions are taken.

2. Your needs

Your organisation must anticipate growth, investment or operational changes. Existing projections are incomplete, difficult to update or insufficiently connected to operating assumptions.

You wish to understand how proposed choices may affect future financial balances and which variables require close monitoring.

3. Objectives of the engagement

The engagement aims to formalise assumptions, connect the different projections and examine their sensitivity. It helps distinguish a baseline scenario from possible alternatives and make associated resource needs visible.

The forecast is a tool for preparation and discussion, not a statement of certain future results.

4. Indicative scope

The work may cover revenues, expenses, investments, financing and operating needs. Projections may combine income statement, balance sheet and cash flows, according to the level of detail required.

Calculation rules, periods and dependencies between assumptions are defined to facilitate interpretation and updates.

5. Possible delivery arrangements

Interviews with those responsible, review of historical data and assumption workshops inform model construction. Scenarios examine the consequences of significant variations.

6. Possible deliverables

Deliverables may include a forecasting model, assumptions register, presentation of scenarios and summary of the main sensitivities.

7. Conditions and limitations

Projections depend on the information and assumptions used; they guarantee neither results nor financing. The engagement does not certify the model. Budgeting and detailed cash monitoring may require separate services. Update arrangements are defined in the agreed scope.