Financial control for manufacturers balancing capacity, cash and cost

Yes. We can build costing and margin models that include material, labour, overhead absorption, wastage, rework, freight, financing costs, and customer-specific terms.

Yes. We review inventory days, ageing, WIP, vendor credit, receivables, collections, purchase planning, and cash-flow cycles to create a more disciplined operating rhythm.

Yes. We support ERP implementation and clean-up by mapping finance, purchase, stores, production, sales, approval, and reporting processes to ensure usable data and stronger controls.

Yes. CFO Angle works with SMEs, mid-market companies, enterprises, and multinational businesses that need senior finance support without necessarily hiring a full-time CFO team.

Yes. We help prepare projections, cash-flow models, MIS packs, financial narratives, funding documents, and management reporting for lender, investor, and board-level conversations.

Overhead absorption is where most manufacturing costing quietly goes wrong. Spreading factory overhead evenly across units makes low-volume, machine-heavy products look cheaper than they are and high-volume manual products look worse. The workable approach is to identify what actually drives each pool of cost — machine hours for power and depreciation, labour hours for supervision, floor area for rent, number of setups for changeover cost — and absorb on that basis rather than through a single blanket rate. CFO Angle also separates costs that vary with volume from those that do not, because a product can carry full absorbed cost and still be worth making if it contributes to fixed overhead you are paying anyway.

When the finance workload stops being periodic and becomes continuous. A virtual or fractional arrangement suits a business where the heavy thinking happens monthly and around specific events — a costing review, a lender discussion, a capex decision. Once you are running multiple plants, managing a large working capital facility with daily drawdowns, integrating an acquisition or preparing for a listing, someone needs to be present every day and accountable in the room. CFO Angle will say when that point has arrived rather than extend an engagement past its usefulness, and can help define the role and assess candidates.