Answers to the most common questions

We build and run the finance function of a business: from diagnostics to a data-driven management system that lets the owner control the business through numbers. Not an agency, not outsourcing, not “help with finance” — the company’s finance function, designed, built and run externally. We also build custom software — grounded in the specific company’s business processes, built strictly around them.

Yes. When standard tools are not enough, we design and build custom solutions for a specific business: dashboards, models and calculations shaped around the decisions the owner makes most often. The system is built around the company’s processes — not the other way around. More: system.42.finance.

Consulting gives recommendations — we build and run the function. One partner leads the client personally, from the first call to the close of the mandate, with no rotating team of consultants and no “let me get back to the team”. If we don’t know the answer, we say so — and go get it together.

With a conversation, not a proposal. The first meeting is 45 minutes, no fee: we leave it either with a working hypothesis or with an honest recommendation of who else to talk to. The first working step is a diagnostic of the company’s finances: not a certified audit, but an honest look at where the company is now and what relies on manual accounting. Next steps and timelines depend on what the diagnostic shows — every system is built individually.

We’ll understand the size and specifics of your business at the first meeting — the key requirement is an accounting team on the client’s side: the system runs on data, and someone has to maintain it. We work with companies worldwide — remotely, so geography is not a constraint.

Our focus is management accounting and building the company’s financial system: what gives the owner the picture for decisions. Adjacent requests are discussed individually at the first meeting.

The core of the whole financial system: one interface where the owner sees within ten minutes how much each line of business really earns and where money leaks. It includes unit economics — contribution margin by SKU, margin by segment — built on accounting data, with no separate Excel files.

Yes, it is a dedicated practice area: consolidated P&L, balance sheet and cash flow across all group companies with intercompany eliminations. The owner sees the group as one business — and every legal entity separately, in one interface.

Turbulence is not a slow deterioration of the P&L — it is a sudden gap in the cash flow. The 13-week cash flow shows that gap weeks before it becomes a fact: the owner sees the account balance one, two, three months ahead, and decisions about large expenses, dividends and investments are made on a model, not after the fact.

Closing the month on the fifth business day. If in May the owner makes decisions on April’s data, he is not making decisions — he is reacting to the past. T+5 is not speed for its own sake; it returns the month to the owner.

Ongoing support is available for every system. If we build custom software for you, support is mandatory: the system is heavily automated, so support means technical maintenance and strategic insights, not manual work.

All of them: we are not tied to a specific stack — the system is built around your business processes, not around a particular application.

NDA before the first meeting if needed. Data is confidential and never shared with third parties. We treat the owner’s access as trust to be earned — not as a transaction under a contract.

Meetings — Zoom or Google Meet; languages — Ukrainian and English. We reply to requests within one business day. We work remotely with clients worldwide.

The fee is calculated individually for every client — based on the scope of work and the specifics of the business, using a transparent and clear calculator. The first meeting is 45 minutes, with no fee.