Board & Director Support

The board pack is management's document. This is yours.

A director's duty of care is personal. The support behind it usually isn't there. You approve accounts, budgets, distributions, and transactions on the strength of a pack prepared by the people whose work you're overseeing, with no independent way to check it and no staff of your own to ask.

Verified Metrics gives directors that independent line. Before the meeting, we tie the numbers in the pack back to the ledger and the bank, stress the forecast you're being asked to approve, and brief you on what holds, what doesn't, and what to ask. You walk in informed rather than briefed by the people you're there to challenge.

We don't issue formal opinions. We do the verification and analysis that lets you exercise the judgment the role demands, and we leave a documented record of independent inquiry behind us.

Why Verified Metrics

• Tied to source, not to the pack. Where access is granted, our data room connects to the company's ledger and bank accounts, so verification means reconciliation, not re-reading.
• Independent by structure. We're engaged for you, not by the team that prepared the numbers. The engagement letter says so in plain terms.
• A record of inquiry. Every cycle produces a documented trail of what was checked, what was asked, and what was resolved. Diligence you can point to later.
• Senior practitioners who've sat where you sit. Briefings come from people who have read board packs critically for a living, not from a research pool.
• Discreet by default. We work from board materials and read-only access, on your confidence, without disrupting the finance team.

What this covers

• Board pack verification: management accounts reconciled to ledger and bank before the meeting
• Forecast and budget validation: assumptions stressed and the model independently recomputed before you approve it
• Pre-distribution analysis: distributable reserves / solvency tests per jurisdiction, cash adequacy, and covenant headroom before dividends and buybacks
• Transaction support: an independent read of the numbers behind acquisitions, financings, and related-party items on the agenda
• Covenant and going-concern monitoring between audit cycles
• Audit committee support: a technical second pair of eyes through fieldwork and auditor queries
• Pre-meeting briefing: what ties, what doesn't, and the questions worth asking

How an engagement runs

• Structured to the role: a quarterly retainer around the board calendar, or on-call per agenda item
• Read-only data access through the Verified Metrics data room where the company grants it; board materials alone where it doesn't
• Briefing delivered before the meeting, not after it

What you receive

• A pre-meeting briefing each cycle: verified, unverified, inconsistent, and the questions to ask
• Independent recomputation of any forecast or model on the agenda
• A documented record of independent inquiry, maintained engagement to engagement
• On-call access to a named senior practitioner between meetings

Scope boundary: analysis and verification support only. Deliberately not fairness or solvency opinions.