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UK accountancy and advisory firms

Add an analytics team to your accountancy practice without building one.

SPC provides white-label Power BI, FP&A, forecasting, business analysis and decision support behind UK accountancy and advisory firms.

Turn management accounts into management insight.

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Your clients already rely on you for their numbers. SPC helps you turn those numbers into deeper insight, without the cost, recruitment and management burden of building an internal analytics function.

White-label or co-branded. Flexible capacity. UK-facing. Specialist delivery.

Illustrative management view

Northbridge Distribution Ltd

Fictional. September 2026.

Fictional company. Revenue 8 million pounds, 90 thousand pounds above budget, including a one-off September job. Gross margin 26.1 percent, down 2.5 points since October. Cash 430 thousand pounds, with a 90-day trough of 320 thousand pounds.

Revenue

£8.00m

+£90k vs budget

September includes a one-off job.

Gross margin

26.1%

-2.5pp since Oct

Was 28.6% in October 2025.

Cash

£430k

Trough £320k

Week of 17 November.

Revenue against budget

RevenueBudgetOct · Mar · Sep

90-day cash forecast

Cash6 Oct · 17 Nov · 29 Dec

Revenue is ahead of budget. Margin has narrowed for a year. Cash troughs before that September profit can fund the VAT week.

Illustrative figures from the fictional Northbridge Distribution Ltd pack. Not an SPC client, and not a measured result.

Your clients increasingly want answers, not just reports.

Management accounts tell clients what happened. They increasingly want to know why it happened, what happens next, where profit is being created, where cash is being lost, and what management should do. Building that capability inside the practice is expensive and difficult to staff.

Why it happened
What happens next
Where profit is created
Where cash is lost
What management should do

Add analytical capability without adding an entire department.

Analytics Desk

Your flexible analytics resource, without another permanent hire.

From approximately £1,250/month

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Embedded Analytics

An extension of your team, delivered by SPC.

From approximately £2,500/month

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Decision Intelligence Pod

A complete analytics capability without building an internal analytics department.

From approximately £5,000/month

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How it works

From client data to a management action

See the operating model

  1. 01 · Client data

    The practice already holds the numbers

    Ledgers, sales and stock move across under an agreed arrangement.

  2. 02 · Analysis

    SPC tests the management question

    Definitions stay fixed, so a movement is a movement and not a change of method.

  3. 03 · Insight

    The pack says what moved

    The accountancy practice reviews the reading before the client sees it.

  4. 04 · Management action

    The client gets a next step

    The firm remains the adviser. The output is an action, not another chart with no owner.

Illustrative figures from the fictional Northbridge Distribution Ltd pack. Not an SPC client, and not a measured result.

What SPC can deliver

Five analytical capabilities. The miniature charts use the same fictional pack as the demonstration, so the shape of the work is visible before the meeting.

Twelve months, one revenue series

Data and BI

Can the same number be trusted from one month to the next?

  • Power BI dashboards
  • Data modelling
  • SQL
  • Data integration
  • Automated reporting
  • KPI frameworks

Monthly variance, £000

FP&A

Where does the forecast diverge from the budget?

  • Budgeting
  • Forecasting
  • Scenario modelling
  • Cash-flow forecasting
  • Variance analysis
  • Management reporting

Contribution by named account

Commercial analytics

Which accounts earn their keep after the invoice?

  • Customer profitability
  • Product profitability
  • Margin analysis
  • Pricing analysis
  • Sales performance
  • Working-capital analysis

Gross margin, percent

Business analysis

What should the margin figure actually mean?

  • Requirements analysis
  • Process analysis
  • Reporting requirements
  • Data requirements
  • Systems analysis
  • Business-case modelling

Order volume, same definition

Automation and AI

Which pack should rebuild itself next month?

  • Reporting automation
  • Analytical workflows
  • AI-assisted analysis
  • Document and data extraction
  • Recurring insight generation
  • Workflow automation

Worked example

Cable management

148 days

Cable management holds stock far longer than the rest of the book, on a 16.1% margin.

Illustrative figures from the fictional Northbridge Distribution Ltd pack. Not an SPC client, and not a measured result.

Questions management actually asks

Each question is a state of the business, not a slide title. The figures below are the fictional pack, shown small.

  • Which customers are profitable?

    Two accounts, similar trade, different contribution.

    4.1%

    Harrowfield contribution

    19.1%

    Westbury contribution

  • Where is margin being lost?

    Gross margin has narrowed for eleven months.

  • What will cash look like next quarter?

    The trough is the week of 17 November.

  • Which products are tying up capital?

    Cable management is the stock that is not turning.

  • What is driving the budget variance?

    September beats budget. The beat is a one-off job.

  • What should management focus on next?

    The pack ends on an action, not another chart.

    Reset Harrowfield pricing and service extras. £280,000 of revenue, 11.2% gross margin.

Illustrative figures from the fictional Northbridge Distribution Ltd pack. Not an SPC client, and not a measured result.

A board pack, not a chart gallery

Northbridge Distribution Ltd is fictional. The pack shows the kind of management view SPC builds: profit, cash, stock and the actions that follow.

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Your brand, with analytical capacity behind it

Your brand

The practice the client already trusts.

SPC analytics

Specialist delivery, white-label or co-branded.

More advisory capability

Insight, forecasts and decisions the firm can stand behind.

Completely white-label

The end client sees only the accountancy practice.

Co-branded

The end client understands SPC is the specialist analytical partner. White-label is the default.

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Entry offer

Analytics Performance Diagnostic

See what your existing data could tell management before committing to an ongoing analytics service.

Indicative fee £500–£1,000

  • Review of existing management reports
  • Review of available data
  • KPI assessment
  • Data-quality assessment
  • A dashboard prototype
  • Selected analytical insights
  • A recommended reporting and analytics architecture
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Why SPC

Specialist analytical capability

The work is management reporting, forecasting, commercial analysis and decision support. Technology is how it is delivered.

Flexible capacity

Start with one client or a defined piece of analysis. Add capacity when the practice can see the value.

UK-facing management

Client leadership sits with SPC in the UK. The practice deals with one accountable counterpart.

Distributed delivery

Specialist delivery is organised so the practice does not have to recruit, manage and retain an internal analytics team.

Scalable support

The same operating model can sit behind one client or a portfolio, white-label or co-branded.

AI-enabled workflows

Automation is used where it shortens recurring analysis. It is not offered as a substitute for a decision.

Commercial focus

Each engagement is framed around a management question: profit, cash, margin, capital or the next action.

White-label by default

The practice keeps the client, the brand and the commercial relationship. SPC can remain unseen.

Have a client who needs more from their data?

Choose one existing SME client whose management reporting could be sharper. SPC builds the pack from the exports you already hold. If you and the client like the output, we talk about the rest of the portfolio. If not, it ends.

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