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FY27Actuals to Sep-26Budget: FY27 budgetNWUK · entity budgetGrid basis: Partner cross-sales are a memo lineGBP thousandsXero

Account review · Sep-26

4 flags: 0 possible missing invoices, 4 unusual swings · All 4 flags explained · 14 mapped accounts in NWUK · click a figure to see its months

AccountLineActualBudget*Var3-month avgvs avgFlagExplanation
455 · InsuranceOffice & general−26.0−11.8−14.2−2.0−24.0Unusual swingExplained
Checked against the supplier invoices: timing only.
430 · AdvertisingSales & marketing−69.1−57.0−12.1−51.3−17.8Unusual swingExplained
Autumn campaign brought forward from October, agreed with marketing.
463 · Doubtful debt provisionOffice & general−9.0−11.8+2.87.0−16.0Unusual swingExplained
Provision reviewed against the aged debtors at month end.
461 · Legal feesExceptionals−1.80.0−1.8−16.9+15.1Unusual swingExplained
Back to normal after the one-off contract dispute earlier in the year.
200 · Withdrawal feesRevenue522.8531.7−8.9502.8+20.0
201 · Services revenueRevenue61.366.4−5.162.7−1.4
310 · HostingDirect costs−57.4−56.8−0.6−61.2+3.8
311 · Payment feesDirect costs−21.5−18.8−2.8−20.2−1.3
401 · Salaries: salesSales staff−171.1−181.3+10.2−170.4−0.7
402 · Salaries: technologyTechnology staff−359.2−367.1+7.9−356.9−2.3
440 · Software subscriptionsTechnology−43.4−40.4−3.0−42.4−1.0
445 · Data platform subscriptionTechnology−7.0−6.7−0.3−7.00.0
450 · RentOffice & general−30.0−11.8−18.2−30.00.0
416 · DepreciationInterest & depreciation−9.0−9.00.0−9.00.0

Flags: an account with nothing this month after 3 months with activity (possible missing invoice), or more than 30% and £2k away from its 3-month average. *Budget is set per line, so each account's share follows its last 3 months, or an equal split when those are empty or mixed. Positive variance is favourable.

Draft accruals · Sep-26

Supplier cost accounts with no invoice in Sep-26 after a cost in each of the 3 months before, accrued at their 3-month average, in each entity's own currency · finance and admins

No supplier cost account is missing an invoice in Sep-26 for NWUK.

Draft prepayments · Sep-26

Supplier cost accounts with a cost in Sep-26 at least 3 times their 3-month average, such as a year's licence or policy invoiced at once: the cost above the average spread over 12 months, in each entity's own currency · finance and admins

AccountLineCost in Sep-263-month averagePrepayRelease a monthGBPk
455 · InsuranceOffice & general£26,000.00£2,000.00£22,000.00£2,000.0022.0
⤓ NWUK prepayments journal for Xero

Each file is a manual journal in Xero's import layout dated Sep-26's last day: a credit to each cost account for its prepayment and one debit to NWUK: 620 Prepayments. Release a month goes back to the cost account in each of the next 11 months (a debit to the cost account, a credit to prepayments): set it up in Xero as a repeating journal. Check the invoice first: a one-off cost, or one that covers a different period, isn't prepaid this way. Foresail never posts anything.