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Inventory-intensive operations
Wholesale & Distribution
Inventory, purchasing, freight, customer terms, and multiple sales channels can make profitability and cash difficult to see clearly.
Financial questions to control
- Inventory accuracy, costing, and reserves
- Customer and vendor terms
- Freight, landed cost, and margins
- Multiple warehouses or channels
How Aurum can help
Strengthen inventory-related close procedures, margin reporting, reconciliations, working-capital visibility, cash forecasting, and coordination between operations and accounting.
Inventory turnsGross marginWorking capitalCash conversion
02
People and project economics
Professional Services
Time, utilization, pricing, project delivery, and collections must connect to financial reporting before leaders can understand true client profitability.
Financial questions to control
- Project profitability and utilization
- Time-based or milestone billing
- Unbilled work and collections
- Revenue recognition and forecasting
How Aurum can help
Create clearer project and client reporting, improve billing-to-cash workflows, strengthen revenue and accrual processes, and connect operational metrics to financial performance.
UtilizationProject marginUnbilled revenueDSO
03
Recurring and usage-based activity
Telecom
Recurring contracts, usage billing, installations, equipment, and vendor charges require disciplined reconciliation and margin visibility.
Financial questions to control
- Recurring and usage-based billing
- Equipment, installations, and service delivery
- Vendor charges and margin analysis
- Contract and entity complexity
How Aurum can help
Improve recurring revenue reporting, billing reconciliations, cutoff, vendor-cost visibility, cash planning, close discipline, and scalable accounting workflows.
Recurring revenueChurn visibilityService marginBilling accuracy
04
Project-based financial control
Construction
Job costing, work in progress, change orders, retainage, and uneven cash timing require reporting that connects every project to the general ledger.
Financial questions to control
- Job costing and change orders
- Progress billing and retainage
- Work in progress and revenue recognition
- Subcontractor and cash-flow timing
How Aurum can help
Support job-level reporting, WIP review, billing and collections visibility, close procedures, cash forecasting, project-to-accounting coordination, and management reporting.
WIP positionJob marginBacklogCash requirements
05
Property and entity visibility
Real Estate
Property-level activity, legal entities, intercompany balances, capital projects, and financing create reporting and consolidation demands.
Financial questions to control
- Property and legal-entity structures
- Intercompany activity
- Capital projects and fixed assets
- Property-level cash and reporting
How Aurum can help
Strengthen entity and property reporting, intercompany reconciliations, consolidation processes, cash visibility, close ownership, and supporting schedules.
Property cashNOI visibilityIntercompanyConsolidations
06
Costing and production insight
Manufacturing
Raw materials, work in process, finished goods, overhead, production variances, and capacity decisions all depend on reliable cost information.
Financial questions to control
- Raw material, WIP, and finished goods
- Standard or actual costing
- Overhead allocation and variances
- Production and margin reporting
How Aurum can help
Improve inventory accounting, costing review, margin visibility, month-end schedules, operational reporting, working-capital analysis, and ERP-related accounting requirements.
Inventory valuationProduction varianceUnit economicsCapacity insight
07
Growing private companies
Other Private Businesses
The right fit is defined less by an industry label than by recurring accounting activity, growing complexity, and the need for more dependable financial leadership.
Common triggers
- Rapid growth or new locations
- Controller departure or team transition
- Financing, audit, or transaction readiness
- Reporting or systems no longer scale
How Aurum can help
Aurum can evaluate the operating model, accounting environment, reporting needs, and internal capacity to recommend a practical starting point.
Close reliabilityCash visibilityTeam capacitySystems readiness
