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Business Planning and Financial Modeling
Business Planning Increasingly, institutions are looking for opportunities to capitalize on the value of their resources, their expertise, and their name (their ‘brand’). They are finding that new services and programs can support their mission while also generating income to subsidize their established operations. However, non-profit organizations generally are not well equipped to analyze new markets, plan entirely new ventures, or develop the documentation to achieve governing board approvals. A substantial capital campaign presents other business planning problems, including the necessity of communicating complex financial options to trustees who have very different degrees of financial literacy, and coordinating unpredictable revenue streams with an assortment of expenditures that may have very disparate planning and commitment time frames. For institutions engaged in a continuous cycle of integrated planning, business planning can take on its share of ongoing strategic thinking. Synthesis Partnership offers a variety of business planning services and tools to afford a prudent and cautious governing board the confidence to embark upon an ambitious program of expenditures while minimizing risk to acceptable levels and areas. Our services include:
We also offer ƒore$ight, a customized tool for comprehensive, dynamic, real-time financial modeling. This tool for strategic thinking enables senior management and governing boards to model multiple alternative scenarios and experiment with them in real time. It can be used during a meeting to examine the effects of any combination of changes in revenue or expenditure lines. ƒore$ight is based on the institution’s full financial statements, augmented by myriad other variables that affect both short- and long-term financial decisions and resources. This robust, real-time approach to financial modeling transforms strategic, program, and business planning, and planning for capital projects, and fundraising, since quantitative ramifications can be projected before commitments are made and monitored as they unfold. Generally we provide these services as part of a comprehensive program of strategic consulting, but ƒore$ight is available as a free-standing services as well. BACK TO TOP |
