Management information most SMEs never get to see.

Keystone builds the costing, profitability and reporting systems that growing manufacturers need to see where money is really made — without the cost of a full finance department.

Accounting tells you what happened. It rarely tells you why.

Most growing manufacturers keep clean books. Very few can answer the questions that actually drive margin.

01

Profitability is invisible

Product, customer and project-level margins are rarely visible until it's too late to act on them.

02

Cost drivers stay hidden

Margin erosion gets noticed. What's actually causing it usually doesn't.

03

Working capital surprises

Cash and working-capital strain shows up after the fact, not before it.

04

No forward-looking view

Budgets, pricing and capacity decisions get made without a reliable forecast behind them.

The usual fix — a full-time CFO — is expensive to hire and hard for a growing business to retain.

What we build

A structured management-finance layer, delivered as a consistent methodology rather than open-ended advisory hours.

C

Costing frameworks

Standardized product and process costing that holds up under scrutiny — and under change.

P

Profitability diagnostics

See margin by product, customer and project, not just at the company level.

R

Management reporting

Reporting built for decisions, not just for the auditor.

B

Budgeting & FP&A

Forecasts and budgets that connect to how the business actually runs.

F

Fractional CFO

Senior financial oversight on a schedule that fits a growing company's budget.

I

Finance-process improvement

Tighten the processes feeding your numbers, so the numbers can be trusted.

One method, applied consistently

Every engagement moves through the same sequence — so the frameworks and dashboards we build can be reused, not rebuilt, on the next one.

1

Costing models

Establish true product and process cost.

2

Profitability engine

Turn cost data into margin visibility.

3

Management dashboard

Put the numbers in front of the people who decide.

4

Decision support

Connect the numbers to pricing, mix and capacity calls.

5

Continuous review

Keep the system current as the business changes.

Built for growing manufacturers

We work best with mid-market companies that have outgrown basic bookkeeping but aren't ready to build a full finance department.

Pharmaceuticals Specialty chemicals Process manufacturing Engineering & industrial goods
23+Years in manufacturing finance
5Step delivery methodology

Sudip Suryawanshi

Founder, CMA — 23+ years in manufacturing finance

Cost accounting system design, ERP implementation across SAP CO, Oracle and Navision, manufacturing MIS, financial modeling, M&A support and tax-incentive planning — built over two decades inside manufacturing and specialty chemical businesses, not from the outside looking in.

Keystone Management Stewards LLP · LLPIN ADB-2471

Run by someone who has closed the books, not just reviewed them.

Keystone's frameworks come from two decades of hands-on finance and costing work inside manufacturing companies — not a generic consulting playbook applied from the outside.

Let's talk about your numbers.

Tell us where your reporting falls short, and we'll tell you what a structured management-finance layer would look like for your business.