Cascade Suite: Automate expense allocations

With cost and profitability analytics and monitoring, Cascade Suite enables transparency of cost/expense allocations to each product and location and from each team, person, and expense type. It can highlight product profitability, overhead allocation of cost centers, and changes in cost and profitability trends, and it can produce detailed spending reports.

High degrees of automation, data exchanges, and scalable workflows reduce personnel costs and effort. Allocations can be performed more often, while effort is reduced to a few clicks and oversight is consolidated with issues and outliers identified, integrated analytics and dashboards, and automated production of journal entries and invoices.

Centralize approvals of allocation rules and employee time with workflows and notifications. Audit trail of all calculations and rules changes. Systemization of expense allocation policies eliminates one-off miscalculations and reduces manual error. Through added controls and adherence to leading practices, create alignment with fund agreements and historical expense allocation policy.

Our core product is tailored to your products, expenses, systems, allocation methods, and fund agreements, including the dashboards/ reports, statements, calculations, time tracking portal, emails, and interface. Allocate expenses based on assets under management, net asset value, locations, employee time, and other methods. We are guided by your existing processes and systems along with future state goals, minimizing additional FP&A burden.

Capture expense allocation policy and fund agreements via a guided user interface, with centralized allocation methodologies deployable at the expense line level and change management workflows to manage issue escalation and oversight. (includes support for both hard and soft dollar expenses).

Produce detailed dashboards that can drill down from enterprise-wide to individual funds, departments, groups, etc. Track budgets against actuals, balances and accruals, and relevant key performance indicators.

Mobile -friendly employee time tracking portal with approvals and overrides allocates compensation, meals, bonuses/taxes, executive assistants, and other employee -driven expenses.

Integrates with G/L, HR, and expense systems to collect expenses and personnel information, perform automated allocations, produce invoices, and post journal entries. Highly configurable approval and automation workflows are bespoke to your firm.