Protect cash, trust and tax funds, payroll, merchant deposits, approvals, access, reconciliations, separation of duties, and source records.
Performance
U.S.-based · Global reach
P&L Management
The P&L is the operating scorecard, but results improve only when every line is connected to controllable behavior. Cole analyzes trends, mix, pricing, labor deployment, purchasing, waste, discounts, occupancy, and overhead; identifies the few drivers creating the largest variance; and installs a review rhythm that turns weekly data into accountable action.
What this work is designed to deliverA management team that understands margin drivers and acts early to protect profitability.
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Senior expertise.
Practical execution.
We bridge the distance between a monthly statement and the daily behaviors that create it. Targets are translated into weekly operating measures, material variances are traced to their causes, and named leaders leave each review with specific actions, dates, and expected financial impact.
Our operating approachNo seagull management. We can enter at the diagnostic, planning, implementation, stabilization, or ongoing-advisory stage—and remain accountable through execution, adoption, and a sustainable handoff.
Recast the P&L into controllable drivers by location, department, daypart, channel, product, labor group, and accountable owner.
Validate sales, discounts, comps, taxes, fees, merchant deposits, delivery commissions, gift cards, and revenue recognition before judging performance.
Analyze price, mix, recipes, yields, purchasing, waste, inventory, scheduling, productivity, overtime, occupancy, and overhead variance.
Set realistic targets and flash reporting for sales, labor, cost of goods, contribution, cash, and critical exception measures.
Separate timing and accounting noise from genuine operating performance, with reconciliations and close controls that protect decision quality.
Run weekly action reviews and monthly root-cause discussions so managers understand what moved, why, and what must change.
Details that protect the work
What clients cannot afford to discover too late.
Requirements vary by jurisdiction and operating model. We identify the dependencies early, assign ownership, maintain the evidence, and coordinate licensed specialists wherever professional authority is required.
Track filing, payment, lender, covenant, insurance, license, audit, retention, ownership, and related-party obligations with qualified advisers.
Preserve reliable books, close discipline, balance-sheet support, forecasts, documented assumptions, and management sign-off.
Escalate suspected fraud, insolvency, securities, lending, tax, legal, or expert-opinion matters to appropriately licensed professionals.
When to bring us in
Before a decision.
During a transition.
When performance slips.
Build or launch
Get the structure, economics, people, systems, and controls right before opening or expansion.
Fix or stabilize
Step into an urgent gap, stop leakage, restore accountability, and protect the business.
Improve or grow
Strengthen the operating platform before scaling, transacting, refinancing, or adding leadership.
Flexible engagement
Focused project
A defined issue, deliverable, timeline, and implementation plan.
Fractional leadership
Hands-on senior ownership without adding a permanent full-time executive.
Ongoing advisory
Regular operating review, decision support, accountability, and governance.
Step in where it matters