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Monthly numbers you can actually run the business on

A virtual CFO gives you senior finance leadership without a full-time salary. We produce a monthly MIS pack, a rolling cash forecast, product and customer profitability, and working capital control — and we sit in the meetings with your management, your bankers and your auditors.

Your accountant closes the books forty days after month-end and tells you what already happened. That is not a management report. It is history. We build the report that tells you what to do about next month.

Most SME books close around day 40. We close on day 5.

Your books close on
the 40th of the month.

Not officially. But that is when the numbers actually reach you.

Forty days of decisions,
made blind.

Orders accepted, prices quoted, payments released — all against last quarter's picture.

We close it on the fifth.

One page you can read in five minutes, tied back to the bank statement, with what changed and what to do about it.

Accounts show the past.
MIS decides the next month.

What a monthly MIS pack from us contains

Every business is different, but the shape is consistent: one page an owner can read in five minutes, followed by the detail your finance team needs to defend it.

It always ties back to the bank statement. If the report says you generated cash and the balance did not move, the report is wrong, and we fix it before it reaches you.

  • A one-page snapshot: sales, EBITDA, cash profit, and the three things that moved
  • Sales and expense mix, so you can see which line is growing faster than revenue
  • Working capital: inventory days, collection days, payable days and the resulting cash cycle
  • A rolling 12-month cash forecast tied to your order book, not to last year plus ten percent
  • Ratio comparison against your own industry — the numbers your banker will benchmark you on
  • Written commentary that says what changed and what we recommend doing about it

Cash flow: where SME money actually gets stuck

In almost every business we open up, the cash is in one of four places — slow-moving stock, customers who have learnt they can pay late, tax and input credits that were calculated wrong, or an inter-company arrangement that nobody has reviewed in years.

We map your cash conversion cycle end to end: the day you pay for material against the day you get paid for the finished goods. Then we move the dates so they stop colliding.

  • Receivables: ageing by customer and salesperson, credit limits, and a collection routine that runs weekly
  • Inventory: SKU-level ranking by movement and margin, so slow stock gets cleared instead of counted
  • Payables: a payment calendar that protects vendor relationships without funding them out of your overdraft
  • Short and medium-term forecasts, refreshed monthly, that make bank conversations calm instead of urgent

Working with your existing Chartered Accountant

We are not a replacement for your statutory auditor or your tax CA, and we do not try to become one. They look backwards because the law requires it. We look forwards because the business requires it.

Client Results

What this looked like in a real business

Client names are held back for obvious reasons.

Manufacturing · ₹80 Cr turnover

₹8 crore profit and an empty bank account

What was wrong
Healthy profit, negative cash. Nobody could say where the money had gone.
What we did
Traced ₹2.2 crore of advance tax that had been over-paid on a wrong calculation and ₹1.8 crore of GST input credit stuck in the wrong group company, then fixed both.

₹4 crore recovered and the inter-company arrangement restructured.

Textiles trading · ₹115 Cr turnover

Profitable on paper, short of cash every single month

What was wrong
Annual profit of ₹12 crore, yet a ₹1.5–2 crore gap every month. Vendors were paid late and the overdraft was permanently drawn.
What we did
Mapped the exact days between paying suppliers and being paid by customers, then moved collection and payment dates so they stopped colliding. Cash is now reviewed every Monday.

Cash cycle cut by 65%. Vendors paid on time within two months.

Manufacturing · ₹400 Cr turnover

Every month brought a new cash surprise

What was wrong
No forecast of any kind. The team found out about a shortfall the week it happened, which meant expensive last-minute borrowing.
What we did
Built a rolling 12-month cash forecast tied to the actual sales pipeline and order book, and took it into the bank review meetings.

Almost no surprises since. ₹3 crore of extra credit facility sanctioned.

What you get

  • Monthly MIS pack, delivered on a fixed date
  • Rolling 12-month cash flow forecast
  • Product, plant and customer profitability
  • Working capital and ratio dashboard
  • Banker-format quarterly review
  • A monthly meeting with a Chartered Accountant, not a junior

Textiles trading · ₹115 Cr turnover

Profitable on paper, ₹1.5–2 crore short every month. We mapped the gap between paying suppliers and being paid by customers, then moved the dates. Cash cycle fell 65% and vendors were paid on time within two months.

More client results

Questions we get asked

What is the difference between MIS reporting and accounting?

Accounting records transactions and produces statutory financial statements after the period ends. MIS reporting turns that same data into management information — trends, ratios, forecasts and commentary — delivered fast enough to change a decision. Accounting answers 'what happened'. MIS answers 'what now'.

How often will we get reports?

Monthly for the full pack, with a fixed delivery date each month. Cash position is reviewed weekly for clients with tight liquidity. Quarterly, we produce a board and banker-format review.

Do you need access to our accounting system?

Read access is enough for most engagements. We work with the major Indian and international accounting and ERP systems, and we can work from exports if your IT policy prefers that.

Can a virtual CFO help us raise money?

Yes. The same numbers that run the business are the numbers a lender or investor asks for. We prepare the projections, CMA data and project report, and we attend the bank meeting with you.

Start with a free 30-minute review of your numbers

Send us the last two years' balance sheets and the pain point that is bothering you most. We come back with things you can fix in the next quarter — no obligation, no sales deck.

CA Neel Shah
+91 93710 03780
CA Yash Patni
+91 83085 53339