Controlling
2.5 hto30 min
per ad hoc question, with 130 questions a month
130 management questions a month, answered the same day
About €400m revenue · 10 entities
What finance teams achieve with Arc.
Twelve examples from controlling, finance, sales and leadership.
Each shows what Arc found or took over.
All examples
Twelve cases from controlling, finance, sales and leadership.
Controlling
Same-day answers, and deviations caught before they get expensive.
Finance & Accounting
Close, consolidation and control across every entity.
Sales
Revenue, margin and customer risk, current every day.
Leadership & Investors
Reliable numbers for the sponsor, the bank and the board.
Controlling
47
cost centers over budget three months running, €2.1m a year in total
Cost center overruns caught before the quarter ends
About €420m revenue · 220 cost centers
Controlling
330to40
hours a month for the standard reports
Reporting logic taken out of one person's spreadsheet
About €330m revenue · 12 entities
Finance & Accounting
€310k
of duplicate supplier payments, recovered in the first month
Every posting checked against the company's own policy, not a sample
About €520m revenue · 8 entities
Finance & Accounting
10to5
working days to the consolidated group result
Consolidation without the seven-tab Excel
14 entities · DATEV and Business Central
Finance & Accounting
0
broken prior-year comparisons, plus €2.9m of opening balance differences found
A new ERP in July, and the monthly report carries on
About €380m revenue · 12 entities
Sales
07:00
every weekday: revenue and margin for 40 recipients
The owner and 40 managers get the sales picture every morning
About €310m revenue · 7 entities
Sales
31%to17%
margin of the largest product group once freight and credit notes are included
Product margins after freight and credit notes, seen for the first time
About €420m revenue · 38 product groups
Sales
11.8to4.6
€m open with one customer, cut three months before it filed for insolvency
One customer's exposure across eleven entities
About €480m revenue · 11 entities
Leadership & Investors
6 weeks
instead of six months until the successor ran the close on his own
Handing over reporting when the founder retired
About €400m revenue · 10 entities
Leadership & Investors
15to8
working days to the monthly sponsor pack, plus a €1.1m EBITDA difference uncovered
The first add-on in the monthly pack, on one EBITDA definition
PE portfolio · platform and add-on · 10 entities
Leadership & Investors
4%to2.6%
planned versus realised price increase, the gap was in discounts and credit notes
How much of the price increase really lands, already in month two
PE portfolio · About €400m revenue · 30 product lines
Examples based on typical mid-market customer profiles, anonymised. Figures rounded.