Shabel Enterprises
Why Your Numbers Stopped Tying Out
A fixed-price, fixed-scope diagnostic. Two exported files, no system access.
Why Your Numbers Stopped Tying Out.
A fixed-price, fixed-scope diagnostic. You send two exported files. We send back what changed, why the comparatives moved, and the test that catches it the next time.
The Symptom
Nothing broke. That is the part that is hard to explain upward. The close still lands, the reports still run, the numbers still come out — they just don't agree with last year's the way they used to. Somebody reorganized a hierarchy. An acquisition arrived carrying its own chart of accounts. A rollup was corrected, correctly, and every comparative sitting above it moved a little. By the time it surfaces as a variance nobody can source, the change that caused it is eleven months old and the person who made it has moved on.
So the quarter closes on a reconciliation somebody did by hand, again, and everyone agrees it would be good to get to the bottom of it when there is time.
What We Think Is Actually Wrong
Every vendor sells you the capability to model your hierarchies. Not one ships the test that fails the build when last year's numbers stop tying out.
The tooling is not the gap. Your platform can almost certainly represent the structure you need, and somebody has already modelled it competently. What no platform ships is enforcement: a check that runs on every change, knows what last period's rollups were supposed to be, and refuses the change that silently breaks them. Without it, structural drift isn't an incident anybody gets paged for — it is a thing you discover in a variance, one restatement of comparatives at a time.
What You Send Us
- A current hierarchy extract — whatever your platform exports natively.
- A prior-period report that no longer ties — the one that started the argument.
Two files. Not a VPN, not a system account, not a security review, not a week of your IT team's attention. That constraint is deliberate and it is doing real work: it is what makes this small enough to approve and quick enough to be worth approving. Nobody has to be convinced to grant access to anything.
What You Get Back
- A written finding set, mapped to the control or close symptom you are actually living with — not a maturity score, and not a list of things a healthier organization would have.
- A remediation sequence, ordered the way the dependencies actually allow, with the items that buy you the most relief first.
- The enforcement test — the check that fails when the condition comes back, written so your team can run it without us.
See What You Get
Page 1 of a sample deliverable for a fictional company. The findings are the real output of the test we run; only the company is invented.
Fictional company. Full sample sent on request.
Price and Start Date
$15,000, fixed, for the scope on this page. We publish it because you should not have to book a call to learn whether this is a five-figure or six-figure conversation, and because a number you can put in front of one approver is worth more to you than a number we could negotiate up.
We run one of these at a time. That is why there is a queue at all, and why the start window is rolling: contact us to discuss details, and we will tell you the actual date. We quote the start and not a turnaround, because a turnaround quoted against work nobody has looked at yet is a guess wearing a commitment's clothes.
Then We Hand It Back
Remediation goes to your team, with the sequence and the test. We will answer questions about both. What we will not do is settle in: we do not want to still be here in eighteen months, and it is worth being suspicious of anyone who does. If the work that follows genuinely needs hands, we would rather say so plainly and let you decide who supplies them. If it is us, buy the hours by the block.