Overview
Your goal
Whether you want to validate a strategic plan, compile an integrated financing plan or have an existing plan checked for plausibility, you will need a partner able to deliver a user-friendly, number-based, transparent decision-making basis.
Our services
We develop fully integrated business plans containing number-based assessments of all production and financing relations. These then serve as the basis for the flexible, interactive modelling of strategic, operational and financial options and scenarios.
Your benefits
- A target-oriented basis for decision-making:
A valid, integrated planning forecast takes numerous relevant scenarios into account and gives all stakeholders a transparent picture of future business development.
- Accelerated decision-making processes:
Thanks to our comprehensive, long-standing experience in dealing with the demands of different stakeholders, we are adept at preparing the requisite documents according to clients’ specific objectives and decision-making processes.
Optimum planning depth:
Corporate plans compiled by Andersch are invariably highly practical and characterized by an optimum balance of planning detail and strategic breadth.
- High success rate:
Andersch boasts a wealth of business modelling expertise, acquired over many years of experience in complex, challenging business environments. Our planning is plausible, practical and robust.
References
Client situation
- the client’s liquidity situation was opaque and poor
- numerous high-volume accounts (>200) and payment transactions in foreign countries
- standstill and interim financing necessary
Andersch’s mandate
- to develop a short-term liquidity plan at group level
- to conduct liquidity planning processes, implement infrastructure and perform plausibility checks for individual plans
- to consolidate over 45 associated companies within the scope of group liquidity planning
Success
- reliable liquidity planning at group level
- early detection of bottlenecks
- transparency established with regard to short-term liquidity requirements of companies, lenders and stakeholders
Client situation
- client in liquidity and profitability difficulties
- lack of appropriate planning or controlling instruments
- interim financing necessary – specific needs and timeframes needed to be determined
- existing covenants structure unsuitable for restructuring phase
Andersch’s mandate
- to develop a robust corporate plan as the basis for refinancing; to restructure the financial covenants structures
- challenges: A complex, tax-induced company structure, inter-company billing, more than 100 company locations and around 60 significant operational companies,
annual sales of over € bn 1
Success
- external: A high level of acceptance among finance partners
- internal: Redesign and implementation of planning processes within the controlling function
Client situation
- an international plant construction company with sales of over € bn 3 had apoor liquidity and significant deficits within important projects
- a comprehensive legal reorganization of the company was in the pipeline
- there was a lack of transparency with regard to short- and medium-term liquidity development, and existing instruments and methods were insufficiently robust
Andersch’s mandate
- to develop concept for and implement short-term liquidity planning for more than 50 companies
- to establish a committee tasked with permanently controlling group liquidity together with management
- challenges: Complex company structure comprising numerous cash pools and subject to both (credit) legal and country-specific restrictions on liquidity transfers within the group
Success
- design and roll-out of an instrument for short-term liquidity planning enabling the internal treasury department to manage the process
- transparency established with regard to short- and medium-term liquidity; tools to swiftly manage bottlenecks established
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