Executive Compass™
A financial capability instrument for consequential decisions.
Executive Compass™ assesses whether the finance function can produce reliable information, support executive decisions, manage risk, allocate capital and sustain long-term value creation.
Interactive decision instrument
See the finance function as a decision system.
Select a domain to reveal how financial capability, risk pressure and executive confidence combine into a decision-ready view of the organisation.
Selected diagnostic domain
Liquidity & Cash
Tests whether management has timely, reliable visibility over liquidity, working capital and near-term cash consequences.
Seven diagnostic domains
Financial capability is a system, not a department.
Liquidity & Cash Management
Visibility, forecasting, working-capital control, funding awareness and the ability to preserve room to act.
Financial Performance Management
Whether performance information reveals causes, consequences and choices—not merely historic variance.
Capital & Financial Resilience
Capital structure, downside capacity, allocation discipline and readiness for shocks, growth or investment.
Finance Operations & Information
Reliable processes, data flow, close discipline, reporting integrity and systems that can support scale.
Governance & Control
Decision rights, accountability, control evidence, risk escalation and the quality of board assurance.
Strategic Finance
The ability to frame choices, test assumptions, allocate resources and connect strategy to financial consequence.
Organisational Capability
People, roles, institutional knowledge, succession and whether capability survives beyond individual effort.
Four assessment lenses
One score cannot explain what leadership needs to know.
Capability
What the organisation can reliably do today across the seven domains.
Risk
Where weakness, dependency or missing evidence may impair decisions or resilience.
Confidence
How much reliance leaders can place on the information and processes supporting decisions.
Maturity
How consistently capability is embedded beyond individual heroics or temporary fixes.
Diagnostic discipline
The instrument is designed to distinguish existence from reliability.
A policy may exist. A report may be produced. A forecast may be submitted. None of those facts alone proves that leaders can rely on the underlying capability.
Executive Compass™ brings together structured questions, evidence, context and executive interpretation. It makes uncertainty visible rather than hiding it behind false precision.
Explicit boundaries
The instrument is not a statutory audit, credit rating, valuation, legal opinion or guarantee of future performance.
- It assesses organisational financial capability and decision readiness within a defined scope.
- Evidence quality and context affect confidence in every conclusion.
- The method is revised where testing shows that a question, domain or inference is not defensible.
The flagship application
Find out whether finance is strong enough for the next decision.
The Financial Capability Assessment translates the instrument into a clear executive profile, priorities and decision blueprint.