Management reports that tell you what's actually happening in the business.
Monthly MIS — P&L, cash position, receivables and the metrics specific to your business — built for founders who need clarity to make decisions, not just a filing-ready balance sheet.
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Reports built for decisions, not just compliance
A statutory P&L and balance sheet tell you what happened for tax purposes. They rarely tell you what you actually need to know to run the business — which product line is bleeding margin, how receivables are trending, or whether last month's marketing spend is showing up in revenue yet.
We build a monthly management information system (MIS) tailored to how you actually run the business — the P&L reframed around what matters to you, a cash position view, receivables ageing, and whatever unit-level metrics your business needs, delivered on a schedule you can plan around.
Statutory accounts follow accounting standards built for tax and audit purposes. MIS is built for you — the same underlying data, reorganised to actually answer 'is the business doing well right now?'
What's included
A standard MIS engagement typically includes:
Monthly P&L (management view)
Profit and loss reorganised around how you actually think about the business.
Cash position report
Current cash, near-term obligations and a clear runway snapshot.
Receivables ageing
Who owes you money, how much, and how overdue — updated every month.
Custom dashboards
Metrics specific to your business — per-SKU margin, cohort retention, or whatever matters most.
Variance commentary
A short written note explaining the significant month-over-month changes.
Presentation-ready format
Reports formatted for board or investor sharing, not just internal use.
Only see your numbers once a quarter?
Tell us what decisions you're trying to make — we'll build the report that actually answers them.
How we build and deliver your MIS
1. Discovery
We understand what decisions you're actually making and which metrics genuinely drive them.
2. Report design
A report template is built around your business — not a generic financial statement — and agreed with you.
3. Monthly delivery
The MIS is generated from your closed books every month and delivered on a fixed schedule, with a short commentary.
Initial report design takes 1–2 weeks; once live, monthly MIS is delivered within days of your books closing each month.
Get a clear, itemised quote.
Tell us about your business and we'll size up exactly what this service costs for you — no obligation.
What flying without a dashboard costs
Statutory accounts tell you what happened for the taxman. Management reporting — MIS — tells you what's happening while you can still do something about it. The gap between the two is where most avoidable startup damage occurs, because compliance numbers arrive too late and in the wrong shape to steer by.
Without regular MIS, the warning signs that matter most stay hidden until they're acute. Margin erosion creeps in a few percent at a time and is invisible in a bank balance. Burn accelerates quietly as headcount and tooling grow, and founders routinely misjudge their runway by months. Customer concentration — the fact that one client is now 40% of revenue — doesn't show up until that client leaves. Each of these is obvious in a well-built management report and nearly impossible to see without one.
There's a second cost that hits precisely when the stakes are highest: you can't answer the questions that decide outcomes. A board member asking for gross margin by product, an investor asking for CAC payback, a lender asking for monthly EBITDA — if you can't produce it quickly and credibly, you don't just lose time, you lose confidence. Companies that report well raise and borrow more easily, because they look like they're in control of their own numbers.
The simple act of seeing the same metrics every month changes how a team runs. What gets measured gets managed — a monthly MIS quietly shifts a company from reacting to last quarter's surprises to steering ahead of them.
From clean books to decisions you can defend
Management reporting is only as good as the data beneath it, which is why it sits directly on top of clean monthly bookkeeping and reconciliation. Once the ledgers are reliable, we translate them into the handful of numbers that actually run your business — revenue and margin trends, burn and runway, cash flow, and the operating metrics specific to your model — presented the same way every month so the trend, not just the snapshot, is visible.
That same reporting layer is what a Virtual CFO reads to advise you, and what feeds board and investor reporting. Building it well once means the same numbers serve your weekly decisions, your board pack and your next diligence process — without being rebuilt from scratch each time someone asks.
"My P&L from the accountant is my management report."
A statutory P&L is built for compliance, not decisions. It won't show margin by product, runway, or the operating metrics you actually steer by.
"We're too early for MIS — we just watch the bank."
Early is exactly when a wrong read on burn or margin does the most damage. A one-page monthly dashboard is cheap insurance against expensive surprises.
Pricing
Pricing depends on report complexity and how many custom dashboards or metrics you need tracked. See our pricing page for indicative ranges, or get an exact, itemised quote in one call.
Frequently asked questions
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Monthly reports built around the decisions you need to make.