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The Pace Car Subscription

Pace Car is path management system for independent companies in wholesale distribution.

The system manages paths of results - recent and future - for the purpose of presenting and supporting efforts for goal achievement. Particularly important in this process is the use of all types of variance calculations - where it can be quantified that the company appears headed for going off course from desired outcomes.

Also uncovered are the opposite situations, where opportunity for gain can come into view.

We have an expertise in result paths and result variances that can serve you in achieving Profit-Cash-Equity goals.

The Pace Car Subscription

We offer Pace Car as a subscription service so that we can be in contact with you all year.

First, we have a SAAS tool that manages your paths to Profit-Cash-Equity, so we have both historical and projected data housed.The historical comes from an upload of sheets you can provide, The projected comes from what you have contributed plus our Pace Car projection tool.

We start in your initial subscription “pack” with a Profit-Cash-Equity capability, augmented by sales analysis. Power-ups a re available for greater depth in the areas of volume, costs, investment, value-building and using segmentation as a tool,

We need you data put into our input sheets. The Pace Car system analyzes variances and we report them to the user. A work group dismisses some and advances other to a watch list. We add further insights to the watch list. Again, some are dismissed and other advance to the strategic moves list. These can be considered a “leads” for financial executes on the project.

return if the right moves are made. We supply a “kit” for launchung the nmoves and the work group, we confer with the use(accordby identifying results (and pieces of results) that hamper your achievement of goals.

Second, this tool continues on to produce supports for redirecting these results with effective strategic moves.

We believe that in the world of Financial Planning & Analysis (FPA), our approach covers more ground at a controlled cost than what you will likely see. Blending the benefits of this service with your in-house efforts produces a most effective financial management component for your business.

What is the Thinking Behind Paths and Variances?

Here is the chain of events:

1-     There are numerous ways to describe the “path” of a company.

2-     Two paths can be compared. Most often, we use the Pace Car Path versus the Head Here Path.

3-     The former is our best possible; the latter is “if we keep going the way we are.”

4-     The difference between the two paths is a “variance.” This is known as the Prime Variance and becomes dominant in the workgroup’s efforts.

5-     Variances have causes. They tell stories. Companies need to read these stories.

6-     Strategic Moves leverage the stories into influence over the results & set time periods. That is to say, to achieve goals for Profit-Cash-Equity.

7-     This is the specialty of Pace Car by BirdTraffic.

What is Variance Analysis to Us?

We see variance anlysis as a anchor to Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA). Is it really that big a deal? Let’s take a look at what it really is.

If budgeted sales for this month to be $1,000 and it came in at $900, this is a variance of $100. Pretty straightforward. But there are layers of this onion to peel off, and at the center is an impressively valuable financial management toolkit. Let’s look at a couple of headliners as food for thought . . . .

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What are Paths to Us??

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Financial Planning & Analysis

We are in the service area of Financial Planning & Analysis - which to us means the various elements in the family of Profit Improvement, Strategic Finance, KPI and Budgeting.

Financial Planning & Analysis


We say that Pace Car is in the specific field of ShortTerm LongTerm Strategic Moves

The Pace Car Subscription

We offer a subscription service called Pace Car, rooted in accounting, rooted in wholesale distribution and focused on the delicate balance of Profit-Cash-Equity

We call the field we are in ShortTerm LongTerm Strategic Moves - for two reasons.

Short and Long Connection

1 - We believe it is imperative to maintain a direct connection between the Short Term and The Long Term. It is often not done. Our service and SAAS support makes it a stronghold.

Help Subscribers Make Moves

2- We believe what we do is not just reading material, Our subscription is designed to turn source data into finding hard-to-see, actionable opportunities and problems related to Profit-Cash-Equity. We want to be strategic and we want to move with our subscribers.


BirdTraffic Method

The BirdTraffic method for FPA can assist you on recurring, special or urgent projects - on a one time only or an ongoing basis. It has been developed with you - the owner, officer or manager in a private distribution business - in mind. See more on BirdTraffic method in How We Can Help You.

Financial Planning & Analysis


Project FPA

What we call “Project FPA” is traditional. You will recognize it as requests for project work on deliverables such as reporting, budgeting and forecasting and such. They could be annual or recurring.You are certainly already doing it - to various extents. If there are gaps due to capacity, experience or any other reason, we can help.

We charge in a traditional way, per hour, per project, per month, which you would expect.

Project FPA leverages our BirdTraffic system and helps us fulfill part of our mission - to assist owners and managers to accomplish short and long term goals.

This site is focused primarily on subscription FPA, but please contact us at any time if you wan to discuss project work.

Subscription FPA

What we call “Subscription FPA” is the diifferent approach.

Our subscription service, called Pace Car by BirdTraffic, employs the four engines of BirdTraffic method to fulfill another part of our mission - to find and shape results that carry impact for value-profit-cash.

In this process our Owl engine (guidance) does the finding and our Hawk engine (influence) does the shaping.

In between Crow does the organizing and Eagle does the display.

The Pace Car subscription is unique in that it both leads and collaborates. Leads in the sense that there is a steady stream of content to user attempting to suggest strategic moves. Collaborates in the sense that there is a process that fosters valuable interaction with the user.

The aim of Pace Car is to keep impact higher and cost lower than traditional projects are able to do.

FPA in the Wholesale Distribution Industry

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