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Costing that tells you the truth before you set the price.
In a product business, margin is decided in purchasing and on the factory floor - long before it appears in the accounts. Without real costing you discover a product line has been unprofitable about a year too late.
Book your free costing review
A qualified accountant will look at how your product costs are actually being built up.
30 minutes · A qualified accountant, not a salesperson · No commitment
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KPMG & EY TRAINED
ACA & CPA
QUALIFIED ACCOUNTANTS
QBO & Xero
CERTIFIED
US GAAP
& IFRS FLUENT
WHO THIS IS FOR
- Manufacturers
- Wholesalers
- Distributors
- Importers
- FMCG brands
- Packaging & industrial
WHO THIS IS FOR
- Manufacturers
- Wholesalers
- Distributors
- Importers
- FMCG brands
- Packaging & industrial
- WHERE THE MONEY HIDES
Four costing problems that quietly erode product margin
These are the issues a generalist bookkeeper will not catch, because they sit below the P&L.
Variances disappear into cost of sales
Material, labour and overhead variances are absorbed silently. The P&L balances, but nobody can explain why gross margin moved three points this quarter — or which product caused it.
HOW WE FIX IT
Standard vs actual costing with variance analysis
Variances calculated, split by cause and explained in plain language each month, so margin movement is traced to a reason rather than accepted as noise.
Inventory on the balance sheet isn't real
Raw materials, work in progress and finished goods carry values nobody has tested against a physical count. Year-end brings a write-down that lands as a surprise.
Inventory valuation and reconciliation
Stock valued correctly at each stage and reconciled to physical counts, so the balance sheet holds up and write-downs stop being annual shocks.
Landed cost is ignored
Product cost is the supplier invoice. Freight, duty, insurance and handling sit in overheads, so imported lines look far more profitable than they are and pricing is built on a false floor.
Full landed cost loaded into product cost
Freight, duty and handling allocated into cost per unit, giving genuine gross margin by SKU and product line — the number you should actually price from.
You price on gut, not on cos
Quotes and price lists are set from last year's figures plus a feel for the market, because pulling a true cost per unit takes days and nobody has days.
Costing you can query in minutes
A costing structure maintained monthly, so a true cost per unit is available when a customer asks for a price - not two weeks after the quote went out.
- WHY US FOR THIS INDUSTRY
This is our founder's home ground
Product costing is not something we learned from a template. Our founder ran costing and month-end close inside SAP S/4HANA for manufacturing and FMCG groups, including Material Ledger actual costing and profitability analysis, and prepared financial statements for listed companies. Very few outsourced providers can hold a serious conversation about standard cost variances or landed cost allocation. We can, and it is usually clear within the first ten minutes of a call.
SYSTEMS WE WORK IN
- SAP S/4HANA
- NetSuite
- Dynamics 365
- QuickBooks Online
- Xero
SYSTEMS WE WORK IN
- SAP S/4HANA
- NetSuite
- Dynamics 365
- QuickBooks Online
- Xero
Before you book the call
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Both, and we'l advise which suits your operation. Where standard costing is used we calculate and explain the variances rather than letting them absorb silently into cost of sales.
Yes — raw materials, work in progress and finished goods, valued at each stage and reconciled back to physical counts so the balance sheet is defensible.
Yes. Freight, duty, insurance and handling are a located into cost per unit, which for importers is frequently the difference between a product line that looks profitable and one that actua ly is.
No - it's an advantage. Our founder has run costing and close inside SAP S/4HANA and we work in NetSuite and Dynamics as wel as the cloud ledgers.
Yes, and it's usua ly the most valuable output. We report margin by SKU, product line and customer once true costs are loaded, which
often reverses assumptions about which lines are worth pushing.
Price from real costs, not from last year's guess
- Variances explained, not absorbed
- Inventory valued and reconciled properly
- Landed cost loaded into every unit
- True margin by SKU and product line
What Happens Next
No pressure and no sales script - just a qualified accountant looking at where you stand.
- A 30-minute cal at a time that suits you
- We review your current position honestly
- You get a clear scope and a fixed price
- You decide - no obligation either way