tcg - tahola press release

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“A truly powerful management and financial tool that our financiers have come to trust” Background TCG is a managed pub and bar restaurant business with over 70 venues in the UK, including the famous TaƩershall Castle paddle steamer moored on the Thames in London. The Challenge In an increasingly tough trading environment, TCG required a nancial planning soluƟon that would enable them to maintain Ɵght control of their cash and prot posiƟons. They needed a rolling 3 year budget and forecasƟng model, integrated to their General Ledgers and wanted to remove Excel from the process given its inherent challenges. The SoluƟon Working closely with Tahola, TCG chose IBM Cognos Planning and asked Tahola to implement and manage their soluƟon. “We chose Tahola because of their technical competence and knowledge of the hospitality sector”, says Paul Bignell, IS Manager at TCG. “We set them a challenging task”. The result is that TCG now have monthly prot, cash ow, funds ow and balance sheet projecƟons, all mapped to — and fed from — their monthly General Ledger trial balances. TCG’s Performance Indicators allow them to monitor actual vs budget/forecast and, says Bignell, “encourage us to sensiƟse our forecasts and to report variances in actual cash movements vs our cash projecƟons”. TCG have a Managed SoluƟon from Tahola. This means TCG specied in detail what they required, using Excel spreadsheets to demonstrate the complex calculaƟons. Tahola then built and now maintain all of TCG’s nancial models. This has enabled them to achieve automaƟc reforecasƟng based on actual movements: prot, cash and working capital requirements at Group, Company and House level. Tahola also helped TCG to integrate Cognos Planning into its data warehouse where they maintain previous budgets and forecasts for both comparison and integraƟon with Epos, Payroll and General Ledger transacƟons. The Cognos Planning output can then be manipulated by any LocaƟon aƩribute. Bignell believes robustness and exibility are the major strengths of the Cognos Planning system. “It is the rst system I would put into any company, especially where nancial resources are scarce. It is a truly powerful management and nancial tool that our nanciers have come to trust”. “All our managers have visibility of one version of the truth — there are no hiding places in a fully integrated model. It is a truly transparent process and we now have strong control of both our prot and cash posiƟon”. The Benets Fully integrated model and transparent process Strong control of prot and cash posiƟon AutomaƟc reforecasƟng Financiers will trust a professionally built model Robust and exible soluƟon. “Cognos Planning is the rst system I would put into any company, especially in an environment where nancial resources are scarce” Paul Bignell, InformaƟon Systems Manager Tahola Ltd, Viking House, Swallowdale Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 7EA Telephone 01442 211122 www.tahola.co.uk

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Page 1: TCG - Tahola Press Release

“A truly powerful management and financial tool that

our financiers have come to trust”

Background TCG is a managed pub and bar restaurant business with over  70  venues  in  the  UK,  including  the  famous Ta ershall  Castle  paddle  steamer  moored  on  the Thames in London.  

The Challenge In  an  increasingly  tough  trading  environment,  TCG required a financial planning solu on that would enable them to  maintain  ght control of their cash and profit posi ons.    They  needed  a  rolling  3  year  budget  and forecas ng model,  integrated  to  their General Ledgers and wanted to remove Excel from the process given its inherent challenges.  

The Solu on Working  closely  with  Tahola,  TCG  chose  IBM  Cognos Planning and asked Tahola  to  implement and manage their  solu on.    “We  chose  Tahola  because  of  their technical competence and knowledge of the hospitality sector”, says Paul Bignell, IS Manager at TCG.   “We set them a challenging task”.  The  result  is  that  TCG  now  have monthly  profit,  cash flow,  funds  flow  and  balance  sheet  projec ons,  all mapped  to — and  fed  from —  their monthly General Ledger trial balances.  TCG’s  Performance  Indicators  allow  them  to monitor actual vs budget/forecast and, says Bignell, “encourage us to sensi se our forecasts and to report variances  in actual cash movements vs our cash projec ons”.  TCG have a Managed Solu on from Tahola.  This means TCG specified  in detail what they required, using Excel 

spreadsheets to demonstrate the complex calcula ons.  Tahola  then  built  ‐  and  now  maintain  ‐  all  of  TCG’s financial models.    This  has  enabled  them  to  achieve automa c  re‐forecas ng based on  actual movements: profit, cash and working capital requirements at Group, Company and House level.  Tahola  also  helped  TCG  to  integrate  Cognos  Planning into  its data warehouse where  they maintain previous budgets  and  forecasts  for  both  comparison  and integra on  with  Epos,  Payroll  and  General  Ledger transac ons.   The Cognos Planning output can then be manipulated by any Loca on a ribute.  

 Bignell believes robustness and flexibility are the major strengths of the Cognos Planning system.  “It is the first system I would put into any company, especially where financial  resources  are  scarce.    It  is  a  truly  powerful management and financial tool that our financiers have come to trust”.  “All our managers have visibility of one version of  the truth — there are no hiding places in a fully integrated model.    It  is  a  truly  transparent  process  and we  now have  strong  control  of  both  our  profit  and  cash posi on”.  

The Benefits  

Fully integrated model and transparent process 

Strong control of profit and cash posi on 

Automa c re‐forecas ng 

Financiers will trust a professionally built model 

Robust and flexible solu on. 

“Cognos Planning is the first system I would put 

into any company, especially in an environment 

where financial resources are scarce” 

 

Paul Bignell, Informa on Systems Manager

Tahola Ltd, Viking House, Swallowdale Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 7EA 

Telephone 01442 211122      www.tahola.co.uk