Complex numbers can tell simple stories. We help you read them.
SME Diagnostics
We analyse your business data and translate it into a clear picture of how your operation actually performs. Not just how it reports.
Accountant Partnerships
We work alongside accounting practices, delivering the strategic analysis that sits outside the scope of compliance work.
Strategic Advisory
For boards and leadership teams facing consequential decisions. The analytical depth that high-stakes moments require.
You're either making decisions with your numbers or despite them. There is no in between.
Logic in the Numbers
The analysis behind the decision.
Logic in the Numbers is a strategic management consulting firm. We work with businesses across the full range, from sole traders wanting to understand where their money actually goes, to mid-cap companies dealing with complex group structures and decisions that carry real consequences. If you have financial data at the statement level, we can work with it.
We take your numbers and translate them into a clear picture of how your business actually performs. Not how it reports. Where revenue is really coming from. Where costs are quietly growing. Which parts of the operation are pulling their weight and which are not.
The principal behind Logic in the Numbers has spent over a decade in senior leadership roles across complex organisations, including research, operations and strategic planning. That background shapes how we analyse businesses and how we communicate what we find. Directly, without jargon, in a way that leads somewhere useful.
We are not financial advisers. We do not manage money, hold an AFSL or sell financial products. Our work is strategic and management consulting only.
Where we add the most value is when you are facing a real decision. You are considering whether to expand. Margins are shrinking despite revenue growth and you cannot work out why. An acquisition is on the table. A restructure is being discussed. Or you simply want an honest read on whether the business is genuinely getting stronger. We help you frame the decision and show you what the numbers say. What you do with that is yours.
What the numbers are telling us.
The Margin Improvement Trap
Revenue down, margins up. That should be a good story. Then you follow the cash and it isn't.
Read More →Shrinking fast, yet nowhere near distress
Revenue falling at 16.5% a year. Altman Z-score at 33.9. Shrinking fast and nowhere near distress. That's the worst place to be. I worked through why in this piece.
Read More →The Divestiture Arithmetic
A segment doing $65 million EBITDA three years ago, sold at $12 million. The divestiture maths rarely looks the way the pitch deck said it would. I ran the before and after on this one.
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