How do I work out what monthly reporting costs?

Multiply the number of people who work on the monthly pack by the hours each spends on it and by their loaded hourly cost, then by twelve for the year. The calculator does this from your figures; the starting values are only examples.

What is a loaded hourly cost?

Salary plus employer costs, such as employer social insurance, pension and benefits, divided by the hours actually worked in a year. Your payroll or finance team can give a figure; a close estimate is enough here.

What does the break-even figure mean?

It is the number of hours of reporting work a month that Stratavor would have to save to cover its own price at your hourly cost. The calculator assumes no saving at all: you judge whether your team would save that many hours.

Why count the days from month-end to the pack?

Every working day between month-end and the meeting is a day the leadership team decides from the previous month's figures. Ten days a month is 120 working days a year.

What does Stratavor cost?

The calculator uses the Growth plan's published price, billed monthly or annually, in euros, pounds or dollars. Enterprise is priced on request, and current prices are on the pricing page.

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Cost of Reporting Calculator

What does your monthly management pack cost, and how long does the leadership team wait for it? Enter four figures to see the yearly cost in hours and money, the working days a year spent deciding from last month's numbers, and the hours of work Stratavor would need to save to pay for itself.

Reporting hours a month: 32; 2 people × 16 hours
What the pack costs a year: €21,120; €1,760 a month
Working days a year deciding from last month's numbers: 120; 10 days after each month-end, twelve times a year

Stratavor's break-even

9.1 hours a month

At €55 an hour, the Growth plan (€499 a month billed monthly) pays for itself if it saves 9.1 hours of this work a month: 28% of the 32 hours you spend now. Billed annually (€424 a month), it is 7.7 hours.

The calculator assumes no saving. Whether your team would save that many hours is your judgement.

How the calculator works

Hours a month are people times the hours each spends on the pack.
Cost a year is those hours times the loaded hourly cost, times twelve.
Days deciding from last month's numbers are the working days from month-end to the pack, times twelve.
Break-even is the Growth plan's price divided by your hourly cost: the hours a month Stratavor would have to save to cover itself. No saving is assumed.

The hours go on pulling numbers out of the ledger, reconciling them, building the pack and writing the commentary. Stratavor connects read-only to Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage, NetSuite, Deltek Vantagepoint and HubSpot, computes every figure in code from the ledger and the CRM, and drafts the monthly report on what changed across customers, competitors, risk, cash and costs, for people to review and own. It is not a forecasting tool. The Power BI add-on carries the same figures into Power BI.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I work out what monthly reporting costs?: Multiply the number of people who work on the monthly pack by the hours each spends on it and by their loaded hourly cost, then by twelve for the year. The calculator does this from your figures; the starting values are only examples.
What is a loaded hourly cost?: Salary plus employer costs, such as employer social insurance, pension and benefits, divided by the hours actually worked in a year. Your payroll or finance team can give a figure; a close estimate is enough here.
What does the break-even figure mean?: It is the number of hours of reporting work a month that Stratavor would have to save to cover its own price at your hourly cost. The calculator assumes no saving at all: you judge whether your team would save that many hours.
Why count the days from month-end to the pack?: Every working day between month-end and the meeting is a day the leadership team decides from the previous month's figures. Ten days a month is 120 working days a year.
What does Stratavor cost?: The calculator uses the Growth plan's published price, billed monthly or annually, in euros, pounds or dollars. Enterprise is priced on request, and current prices are on the pricing page.

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