Your Company is nascent with choppy cash flow and streamlining its accounting systems. There may only be a CEO, CFO and a part-time employee to perform basic accounting duties. Hence the ability to undertake proper financial modelling and analysis appears to be a stretch.

The thorough nature of building or updating a strategic planning financial model requires a great deal of information. Although a strategic plan is a high-level overview of your Company, it is important to obtain immense detail as it will better assist you in completing the strategic plan.

It is not a simple exercise for your service-based company to model a contract. There are a myriad of operating expenses, capital expenditure and labour costs that need to be fully costed to guarantee a profitable price is tendered during contract negotiations.

As discussed, the differing operations across your Company by business unit will perceive a consolidated carbon reporting model as a challenge. Hence it is up to you as the carbon model builder or reporting manager, to implement some uniform reporting discipline into the overall process.