Your company is losing money. In 3-5 weeks, we will show you exactly where.
ProfitAudit 360 is a fixed-fee diagnostic that maps your entire cost structure using TDABC, builds a whale-curve profitability model, and delivers a margin-recovery roadmap. No hourly billing. No surprises.
What you cannot see is costing you money.
Profitable customers unknowingly finance unprofitable ones. In most companies, the Whale Curve shows a significant share of customers actively destroy value.
Traditional volume-based cost allocation (revenue, headcount, square metres) distorts product and customer profitability, making every pricing decision unreliable.
Prices are set without understanding the true cost of delivering to each customer. The result: margin leaks on your largest accounts go undetected.
Finance teams produce profitability reports, but no one can explain where margin is leaking or what to do about it.
Six deliverables. One fixed fee. No surprises.
A complete map of your cost pools, resource groups and allocation drivers. We translate your general ledger into an activity-based architecture your team can read and challenge.
Process-level time equations that capture the real consumption of resources by product, customer and channel. The engine behind accurate unit costs.
A cumulative profitability curve that ranks every customer and product from most to least profitable. The single most revealing diagnostic in cost management.
What-if scenários for pricing changes, cost shifts and customer-mix decisions. See the P&L impact before you commit a single euro.
A working model deployed on CostCtrl that your finance team can update monthly. You own the model. We transfer the knowledge.
A prioritised action plan with specific interventions, expected margin impact, and a timeline. Not a deck. A roadmap your team can execute.
3-5 weeks. From data to decisions.
- Kickoff workshop with finance and operations
- Collect financial and operational data
- Map cost pools and resource groups
- Validate activity drivers with your team
- Build TDABC time equations
- Run the profitability model in CostCtrl
- Generate whale curve and customer-level P&L
- Identify margin leaks and cross-subsidies
- Present findings to leadership
- Deliver scenario simulations
- Train your team on the CostCtrl model
- Hand over the margin-recovery roadmap
One methodology. Three scopes. Always fixed fee.
One business unit or product line. Ideal for a first engagement or proof of concept.
- Single BU cost-structure mapping
- TDABC time equations
- Whale curve for selected scope
- Margin-recovery quick wins
Whole-company profitability map. The full ProfitAudit experience across all business units, customers and products.
- Company-wide cost-structure mapping
- Full TDABC model with time equations
- Whale curve, heatmap & scenario engine
- Live CostCtrl model & team training
- Margin-recovery roadmap
For PE funds and multi-site groups. We map profitability across portfolio companies or multiple geographies.
- Cross-entity cost benchmarking
- Portfolio-wide whale curve
- Due-diligence cost model for add-ons
- Consolidated margin-recovery roadmap
- Board-ready reporting package
Detailed scope comparison
| Feature | Focus | 360 | Portfolio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profitability gap quantification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Margin architecture mapping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Profit tree decomposition | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whale Curve analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-dimensional profitability | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Systems & data assessment | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team competency review | - | - | ✓ |
| Methodology & allocation review | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Forward-looking readiness | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sector benchmarks | - | - | ✓ |
| Implementation roadmap | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Executive workshop | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Typical delivery | 2-3 wk | 3-5 wk | Scoped |
Everything you need to know before the scoping call.
The scoping call is free. The insight is priceless.
Thirty minutes. We assess your data, scope the engagement, and give you a fixed-fee quote. No obligation.
