Profit& and Abacum have partnered to make connected planning and xP&A practical for mid-market finance teams — combining enterprise-grade modelling with speed, usability, and hands-on delivery.
As organisations grow, finance teams start to feel a very specific kind of friction.
Planning is no longer just about budgets and forecasts. Questions begin to surface from every direction:
How do margin changes really link back to operational drivers?
How do sales plans affect hiring, capacity, and supply chain decisions?
Why do cost allocations still fail to reflect how the business actually runs?
And why does Finance remain stuck in the middle, coordinating inputs instead of shaping outcomes?
This is the moment where traditional FP&A starts to feel too narrow — and where extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A) becomes essential.
Crucially, this is not just a challenge for large, global enterprises. Mid-sized organisations are facing the same complexity as growth introduces new products, geographies, operating models, and cost pressures. Historically, the response has often been enterprise platforms such as Anaplan — powerful and proven, but not always proportionate for every organisation at every stage of maturity.
This is where Abacum has proven to be a strong fit for the mid-market. And it’s why Profit& has partnered with Abacum.
At Profit&, we help organisations connect Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, and HR through driver-based planning and profitability modelling.
Our focus is on building planning models that reflect how the business actually operates — not just how the chart of accounts is structured. That includes:
Cost allocation and profitability logic aligned to real operational behaviour.
Financial plans connected directly to commercial, supply chain, and workforce drivers.
Models that make collaboration between functions easier, not heavier.
Scalable designs that work across complex, multi-entity environments.
Our team is made up of qualified accountants and former Big Four consultants, but our approach is intentionally hands-on. We embed with finance teams and work as an extension of them. “People, not suits” isn’t a tagline — it’s how delivery really happens.
The challenge we see repeatedly is that mid-market organisations need enterprise-grade planning capabilit, but delivered in a way that is proportionate to their scale today. They need solutions they can adopt and use quickly, that are affordable and pragmatic, and that still provide a strong foundation to support growth and increasing complexity over time.
xP&A only delivers value when methodology and technology reinforce each other.
Profit& focuses on the what and the why:
Designing driver-based profitability and allocation models.
Linking financial outcomes to operational decisions.
Structuring planning processes that support faster, more confident decision-making.
Abacum provides the how:
An AI-native FP&A platform where reporting, forecasting, scenario planning, and collaboration live together.
A system designed for speed, usability, and continuous planning.
A daily working environment for finance teams, not just a month-end or annual budgeting tool.
Together, this ensures the models we help design don’t live in spreadsheets or slide decks. They’re embedded into a connected planning workflow that finance and operational leaders can actually use, adapt, and trust.
Through the Profit& and Abacum partnership, organisations can now access:
Connected financial and operational planning: One ecosystem linking margin, cost, sales, supply chain, and workforce drivers.
Enterprise-grade modelling without unnecessary complexity: Sophisticated xP&A capability delivered in a form that fits mid-market realities.
xP&A shouldn’t be reserved for the largest organisations with the biggest budgets.
By combining Profit&’s connected planning expertise with Abacum’s AI-native FP&A platform, we’re helping mid-market organisations move faster — without compromising on rigour, control, or sophistication.
If you’re reassessing how well your current FP&A approach supports growth, complexity, and cross-functional decision-making, this partnership was built to help.
As organisations grow, planning complexity increases — often faster than tools and processes evolve.
Our FP&A Self-Assessment helps finance leaders understand:
How well financial and operational planning are connected today.
Where manual effort, friction, and risk are holding teams back.
What practical next steps will deliver the greatest impact at your current scale.
In just a few minutes, you’ll receive a clear view of your FP&A maturity and tailored guidance on how to move toward more connected, decision-driven planning.
Take the FP&A Self-Assessment.