Finance
Finance
Margin Waterfall Analysis
Profitably managing a distribution operation, in many ways, relies on basic concepts of cost accounting and its ability to calculate margin in various ways. It is important to understand margin along dimensions such as product line, sales rep, distribution center and customer. But, margin is an elusive figure. For example, should the margin calculation account for spiffs provided by manufacturers? If so, are these allocated to specific customers? To specific sales? By what formula?
On multiple occasions Dataspace has worked with clients to build effective margin waterfall analysis systems that became cornerstones of those clients’ operations. These systems allow our clients to understand their true profitability, and the factors driving that profitability.
Post-merger Integration
Dataspace has been significantly involved with one of the nation’s leading publishers of yellow-page directories. Acquisition of rivals is a key part of this client’s business strategy. As an integral part of success with this strategy, Dataspace enabled a customer to perform rapid integration of data from the acquired companies. Following the integration, the client was able to port its reporting applications from Oracle to a new database platform.
With the myriad of acquisitions, mergers and other corporate activity presently taking place, financial executives are faced with the challenge of combining information from disparate reporting systems to determine financial performance of a newly formed entity. Though in the long-term migration to a single reporting system is the desired result, Business Intelligence can serve as a cost-effective, interim solution. We’ve created this solution by feeding a new repository with information from disparate sources, enabling complete, accurate and fully-functional financial reporting from a single data set of data while the systems integration work was completed.
