Welcome to MAW-BirdTraffic, developer of the Pace Car Subscription

Our twin plans each cover one of the two imperatives

First, Path Manager: Its mission is to “Set the Course.” You pick how far out and how far back to look, and how deep into the moving parts to go as well. Then Path Manager will Set the Course for all major components, focusing them on Profit, Cash and Equity results.

Second, Gap Manager: Its mission is to “Stay the Course.” It will detect when and where you current course is drifting for the set course. It will Stay the Course by elevating variances to your attention, explaining why, and suggesting initial action steps for you. Your team joins in on our Workshop calls to move into solution strategies.

A charter for setting your course

Our Path Manager will help you set “policy” for profit, cash, equity positions you want to achieve. Let’s pick three, say sales growth, debt-to- equity maximums and EBITDA. Then, like the Federal Reserve manages interest rates, inflation and unemployment, you can guide your results through a balanced set of goals, not just one. We call it the Corner Office Charter - give yourself a “charter” to manage this. We’ll house it for you and use it in our workshop calls.

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Path Manager

Gap Manager

Power-Up: Traceability

PaceCar by BirdTraffic

Our approach to Financial Planning & Analysis (FPA)

There are endless descriptions of what FPA is. We want to cut to the chase. You need a comprehensive longer term tool first and foremost. Then, to implement, you need a shorter term tool that can detect issues and influence the changes you need. They need to have reach and readiness.

Our lineup for the independent wholesale distribution business and its performance

Pace Car by BirdTraffic is a Path Management system for Wholesaler-Distributors.

Set the Course and Stay the Course are our “1-2 Punch” approach for handling your envisioning and your execution in one place.

In Set Your Course, the 1-Punch, we leverage whatever projection and budget information you have into a comprehensive path, with scenarios, which will set the guidelines throughout the company.

In Stay On Course, the 2-Punch, we provide a series of comparative tools, but the most powerful is a bulk calculation of variances between paths - with extraction of the most useful. You will see that this sets in motion efforts to turn all significant variance information into strategic moves.

In our BirdTraffic-style of planning & analysis, we want to equip you with the ability to influence the return of off-course results to expected levels.

Supp Accounting is in an advantageous position to assist your finance and accounting efforts because Pace Car houses so much performance data and analysis. Reduce your accounting workload by leveraging what you will have already as a Pace Car user.

Traceability expands your ability to find root causes when results have gone off-course. A variety of new views come into play, especially in the pivot-style and ranking-stlyle searches for answers.

SET The Course

Video Series for SET

Statement vs System Gross Profit in Planning

Implementing Standard Cost for Fringe

Traceability

Video Series for TRACE

Path Management Can Find the Off-Course

Path Management Can Lead the Result Influencing

STAY The Course

Video Series for STAY

Continuous Readings on Cash Components Pay Off

Flat Rate Strategy Has Turned Negative

Supp Accounting

Video Series for SUPP

How Path Management Can Speed the Close

How Path Management Can Reach Almost Anyone

BirdTraffic - our process

Here’s My Data!

We are ready for you no matter what.

If you want to send over your 3-page year-end report, maybe the last two would be better, we can start with that. When we get a rhythm, we will be exchanging in greater quantity.

If you have growth or distress complexities and need to uncover some hard-to-see solutions, it will take a larger exchange of data. Not all in the first day, but we’ll need some data to work with.

We have limited-scope options at a discount for you to begin with if that suits. We also can use our demo company to explore methods and tactics you might like. Let’s just look and see what works for you.

BirdTraffic modules and the Result Grid -

Two Cornerstones for Our Ability to Handle Your Data

The Result Grid - for framing the Use and Handling of your data