Our Client Impact

Every number verifiable. Every situation real.

Sallfin exists for the moment when financial clarity becomes the difference between a business that scales and one that stalls. The engagements below are the evidence of what that clarity looks like in practice — across sectors, across sizes, and across the full range of decisions that define a growing business.

We do not measure our impact in advice delivered or hours billed. We measure it in decisions made, capital raised, costs exposed, and forecasts that held. The only meaningful test of financial planning and analysis is whether it changed what a business did — and whether what it did turned out better as a result.

What Sallfin Impact Looks Like

Five dimensions. Each one the consequence of a specific financial discipline applied at the right moment.

Clarity
Dimension 1

Clarity on what the business actually earns

Most growing businesses manage to a revenue number and discover their true profitability late. We surface the real number early — before margin compression has already done its damage.

Cash Control
Dimension 2

Control of what cash does next

Profitable businesses run out of cash. It happens slowly and then suddenly. We give our clients the visibility they need to manage it deliberately — before it becomes visible on a bank statement.

Capital
Dimension 3

Capital on better terms

The difference between a well-prepared and a poorly-prepared funding proposal is not the quality of the business — it is the quality of the documentation. We build the documentation that earns the approval and the terms.

Decisions
Dimension 4

Decisions made on evidence

A major capex commitment, an acquisition, a pricing change — these are decisions that cannot be undone cheaply. We build the analysis that makes the evidence clear before the commitment is made.

Reporting
Dimension 5

Reporting that changes behaviour

The most expensive finance function is the one nobody uses. We build reporting that arrives on time, explains itself, and ends every month with a shorter list of open questions than it started with.

Transformative Impact in Action

Six engagements. Six moments where sharper financial thinking changed the direction of a business. Every number exact.

Government Agency
Government Agency · Cash Flow

₹3.2 Cr recovered — The Cash That Was Already There

A state procurement agency had ₹3.2 Cr in receivables not followed up in 14 months. Sallfin built an ageing analysis and recovery process. ₹2.1 Cr collected within 90 days. Liquidity shortfall resolved without additional borrowing.

Healthcare Group
Healthcare Group · MIS

18-day close, down from 47 — The Month-End That Took Six Weeks

A three-hospital group closing books 47 days after month-end. Sallfin redesigned the close process, standardised inter-entity reconciliations, and built a fixed close calendar. First clean close: 18 days.

Engineering College
Engineering College · Fundraising

₹14 Cr sanctioned at first submission

Two earlier submissions returned for additional documentation. Sallfin built the full project report, CMA data, and DSCR model stress-tested at three fee-collection scenarios. Sanctioned in full, first submission, zero clarification requests.

Hospitality Group
Hospitality Group · Profitability

31% improvement in GOP — Fourteen Hotels, One P&L, No Clarity

A 14-property hotel group with no property-level P&L. Sallfin built a contribution model per property, identified two assets destroying value. Targeted action improved portfolio GOP by 31% across two operating cycles.

Toy Manufacturer
Consumer / Manufacturing · Working Capital

₹8.4 Cr freed — The Toy Company Funding Its Own Bottleneck

Carrying 94 days of finished goods inventory against a 22-day market lead-time. Bottom-quartile SKUs consumed 38% of inventory for 9% of contribution. ₹8.4 Cr freed in one cycle.

Real Estate
Real Estate / Retail · Tenant Economics

4.2× return vs. base case — The Shopping Complex Decision

Anchor tenant offer evaluated without a model for footfall economics or secondary-tenant renegotiation. Sallfin built a 10-year lease stack DCF revealing a 4.2× return versus informal estimates.

Our Client Library

Sixteen engagements across nine sectors. Every description anonymised. Every number real.

Government Agency
FP&A · Process
Receivables Recovery & Cash Flow Architecture
₹3.2 Cr recovered
A state procurement agency with chronic liquidity issues despite consistent billing. Sallfin built an ageing analysis, recovery process, and a 13-week rolling cash view. Liquidity resolved within one quarter without additional borrowing.
Medical Hospital
MIS · Reporting
Board-Ready MIS for a 280-Bed Hospital
18-day close achieved
A 280-bed multi-speciality hospital closing books in 47 days. Sallfin redesigned the close process, standardised reconciliations, and built a board pack covering departmental P&L, bed occupancy, ARPOB, and cash.
Diagnostic Chain
Modelling · Capex
Investment Appraisal for Network Expansion
₹6.1 Cr sanctioned
A diagnostic chain evaluating expansion into 4 new cities. Sallfin built location-level DCF models, break-even analysis by city, and a consolidated investment case. Three of four locations funded on first submission.
Specialty Clinic
Profitability
Revenue-per-Doctor & Cost-per-Procedure Analysis
23% margin uplift
A specialty clinic group with 6 locations managing finances at the group level only. Per-doctor, per-procedure modelling revealed two service lines generating sub-zero contribution. Reallocating capacity lifted group EBITDA margin by 23 percentage points.
KG–12 School A
Budgeting · FP&A
Driver-Based AOP for a 1,400-Student School
₹1.8 Cr surplus
A CBSE school with 1,400 students and no formal budget process. Revenue planned by grade, section, and fee category; costs built bottom-up by department. Year-end surplus ₹1.8 Cr ahead of prior year unplanned outcome.
KG–12 School B
Cash Flow
13-Week Cash View for Fee-Cycle Volatility
Zero overdraft
A residential school with a highly seasonal fee-collection cycle creating recurring overdraft requirements. Sallfin built a fee-timing model linked to a 13-week cash view. The school exited its overdraft facility and has not used it since.
KG–12 School C
Performance
KPI Framework: Academic & Financial Integration
8 metrics driving decisions
A progressive school wanting to connect financial performance to academic outcomes. Sallfin designed a balanced scorecard linking cost-per-student, fee-realisation rate, staff-to-student ratio, and facility utilisation to academic KPIs.
Engineering College
Fundraising
₹14 Cr Term Loan — First-Submission Sanction
₹14 Cr sanctioned
A private institution seeking infrastructure funding. Two earlier submissions returned incomplete. Sallfin built the full project report, CMA data, and a DSCR model across three fee-collection scenarios. Sanctioned in full at first submission.
Hotel Group (Portfolio)
Profitability · MIS
Property-Level P&L for 14 Hotels
31% GOP improvement
A 14-property hotel group with no property-level visibility. Sallfin built a contribution model per property and identified two assets destroying value. Targeted action improved portfolio GOP by 31% across two operating cycles.
Boutique Hotel Group
Forecasting
Revenue & Occupancy Rolling Forecast
RevPAR up 18%
A boutique hotel operator using static annual targets. Sallfin built a rolling revenue forecast driven by advance booking pace, channel mix, and seasonal adjustment. Better visibility enabled proactive rate management.
Hotel Group (Business)
Capex · Modelling
Renovation Investment Appraisal
4.8-year payback confirmed
Evaluating a ₹4.2 Cr renovation programme. Sallfin built a room-night economics model linking renovation cost to ADR improvement, occupancy uplift, and RepScore impact, identifying the sequence that minimised revenue disruption.
Resort Property
Cash Flow · Treasury
Working Capital for High-Season Peaks
Zero emergency borrowing
A resort with extreme seasonal cash flow — 70% of revenue in four months. Sallfin built a cash flow model by week across the full year and structured vendor payment terms to match the cycle.
Hotel Chain (Heritage)
Strategic Planning
5-Year Long-Range Plan for Investor Presentation
₹22 Cr equity raised
A heritage hotel chain seeking growth capital. Sallfin built a five-year long-range plan, a property-level DCF, and an investor presentation pack with scenario analysis. The chain raised ₹22 Cr in equity within four months.
Toy Manufacturer
Working Capital
SKU-Level Cash Conversion Analysis
₹8.4 Cr freed
Cash-constrained despite reasonable margins, carrying 94 days of finished goods inventory. The bottom quartile of SKUs was consuming 38% of inventory investment for 9% of contribution. Rationalisation freed ₹8.4 Cr in one cycle.
Shopping Complex
Tenant Economics
Anchor Tenant Appraisal & Lease Stack Model
4.2× return vs. base case
Evaluating an anchor tenant offer without a model for footfall economics or secondary-tenant renegotiation leverage. Sallfin built a 10-year lease stack DCF revealing a 4.2× return versus informal estimates.
Consumer (Expansion)
Business Plan
Investor-Ready Business Plan for Series A
Series A in market
The same toy manufacturer seeking Series A funding to move from regional to national distribution. Sallfin built the investor-ready business plan: market sizing, route-to-market model, unit economics by SKU cluster, and a five-year financial projection.

The Sallfin Standard

Every engagement in this document was delivered to a single standard — not different standards for different sectors, or scaled-back standards for smaller clients. The same one, every time.

Scrutiny
Standard 01
Every number survives scrutiny
We build to the standard of the most demanding audience our clients will ever face. A DSCR model is built the way a PSU credit committee will read it. A property-level contribution model is built so the CEO can explain every allocation to their board without reaching for a footnote. None of the numbers in this document have ever had to be restated after a lender, investor, or board got hold of them.
Seniority
Standard 02
Senior hands, start to finish
Every engagement in this library was led and delivered by an experienced practitioner — not sold by a partner and handed to a trainee. The person who understands your business is the person who builds your model. The person who writes your board commentary is the person who can answer every question it raises.
Ownership
Standard 03
The client owns the capability
Every model, dashboard, and process we build is documented for the client’s team to run. We do not build dependencies; we close gaps. Several clients in this library now run the processes we designed without us. That is not a commercial loss — it is the point of the exercise, and it is why those clients come back when the next challenge arises.
Knowledge
Standard 04
One standard — different knowledge
A KG-to-12 school and a fourteen-hotel group face the same underlying disciplines — cash, margin, capital, and performance. What differs is the specific metrics, cost structures, and pressures. The standard does not change; the knowledge it is applied with does.
“The only test of financial planning is whether it changed what a business did — and whether what it did turned out better.”

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