Your accounts tell you what happened. We tell you what to do next.

NY Insights & Solutions is a Chartered Accountant-led consulting firm for Indian SMEs. We find the cash stuck inside your business, show you what each product really costs, get your finance sanctioned, and build the software that keeps it all running.

Kolhapur and Mumbai 12+ years in consulting Led by two Chartered Accountants

Our Clientele

The businesses and banks that trust us with their numbers

Two companies. Same industry.
Same numbers.

Company A

Turnover₹120 Cr
Gross margin18%
Net profit₹6.1 Cr

Company B

Turnover₹120 Cr
Gross margin18%
Net profit₹6.1 Cr

One of them is always short of cash.

Company A

Inventory days63
Collection days77
Payable days66
Cash cycle74 days

Company B

Inventory days39
Collection days63
Payable days52
Cash cycle50 days

24 days of working capital.
On ₹120 crore, that is ₹7.9 crore.

Company A funds it with an overdraft it never clears. Company B does not borrow at all. Neither owner would call it a strategy decision.

Profit was never the difference.
Timing was.

This is the first thing we look for, in every business we open up.

What We Do

Nine things that move the number at the bottom of your bank statement

Every engagement starts with the same question — where is your money, and what is it doing? The answer usually points to two or three of these.

Automation Solutions

We got tired of watching good businesses run on spreadsheets, so we built the software

Two products, both built for Indian MSMEs and both born out of real client problems. They are priced for a small business and they work on the phone your supervisor already carries.

Nakad

Billing at the counter and collections in one place. Raise the bill, and the system already knows who owes you what, for how long, and who to chase this morning.

  • POS billing for counter, shop-floor and van sales, with GST-ready invoices.
  • Live ageing by customer, salesperson and branch — no month-end spreadsheet rebuild.
  • Automatic reminders on WhatsApp and email, so nobody has to remember to chase.
  • Credit limits and stop-supply alerts before an account goes bad, not after.
  • Collection targets per person, with a daily dashboard the owner can read in a minute.
  • View it on your phone — the whole receivable position, wherever you happen to be.

From ₹7,499, one time. A lifetime licence — no annual renewal, no AMC, no per-user charge.

See pricing and how Nakad works

NY Stock Control

Inventory software small manufacturers will actually use. Goods in, material out, counted every month, with a variance report that names a person and a date.

  • Goods receipt and issue against purchase orders and job cards, from a phone in the stores.
  • Godown, rack and location tracking for businesses with more than one storage point.
  • Reorder alerts based on real consumption, not a level someone typed in three years ago.
  • Physical count sheets and an automatic variance report after every count.
  • Slow and dead stock reports that show what your money has been sitting in, and for how long.
  • Bank and audit-ready stock statements generated, not assembled by hand.

See how the software works

Client Results

What changed, in numbers we can point at

Every figure below comes from a real engagement. Client names are held back for obvious reasons.

35%Less inventory at a ₹350 Cr manufacturer
₹5.5 CrCash released from stock and receivables
65%Shorter cash cycle at a textile trader
8–10%Cut in purchase cost after a new buying process
50%Fewer stock differences after stores SOPs
₹3 CrAdditional credit facility sanctioned

Manufacturing · ₹350 Cr turnover

₹12 crore was sitting in the stores, not the bank

What was wrong
Slow-moving stock had built up over three years and customers were paying after 120 days. The company was borrowing to fund inventory it did not need.
What we did
Ranked every SKU by how fast it moved and what it earned, cleared the bottom tail, and offered a small discount to customers who paid early.

Inventory down 35%, collections down to 60 days, ₹5.5 crore back in the business.

Textiles trading · ₹115 Cr turnover

Profitable on paper, short of cash every single month

What was wrong
Annual profit of ₹12 crore, yet a ₹1.5–2 crore gap every month. Vendors were paid late and the overdraft was permanently drawn.
What we did
Mapped the exact days between paying suppliers and being paid by customers, then moved collection and payment dates so they stopped colliding. Cash is now reviewed every Monday.

Cash cycle cut by 65%. Vendors paid on time within two months.

Manufacturing · ₹80 Cr turnover

₹8 crore profit and an empty bank account

What was wrong
Healthy profit, negative cash. Nobody could say where the money had gone.
What we did
Traced ₹2.2 crore of advance tax that had been over-paid on a wrong calculation and ₹1.8 crore of GST input credit stuck in the wrong group company, then fixed both.

₹4 crore recovered and the inter-company arrangement restructured.

Manufacturing · ₹400 Cr turnover

Every month brought a new cash surprise

What was wrong
No forecast of any kind. The team found out about a shortfall the week it happened, which meant expensive last-minute borrowing.
What we did
Built a rolling 12-month cash forecast tied to the actual sales pipeline and order book, and took it into the bank review meetings.

Almost no surprises since. ₹3 crore of extra credit facility sanctioned.

Manufacturing · costing study

The best-selling product was the loss-making one

What was wrong
Three people quoted three different costs for the same item. Overhead was spread evenly instead of following the machine time and setup that caused it.
What we did
Rebuilt the cost sheet from actual consumption — machine hours, setup frequency, rejection and scrap allocated to the products that caused them.

The flagship was costing ₹2,970 and selling at ₹2,650. Repriced within the quarter.

Manufacturing · purchase function

Every buyer was negotiating a different price

What was wrong
Purchases went through without a standard approval route, so the same item was bought at different rates and vendor selection was informal.
What we did
Wrote a simple vendor onboarding, purchase order and approval process, with clear limits for who can approve what.

Purchase costs down 8–10%, with a clean audit trail on every order.

Manufacturing · stores & inventory

Stock on the system never matched stock on the floor

What was wrong
No defined process for receiving, issuing or counting material. Mismatches were common and pilferage was a real risk.
What we did
Set up goods receipt notes, issue slips, periodic physical counts and a monthly reconciliation that someone is accountable for.

Inventory differences down 50% and stock records now trusted by the bank.

How We Work

Five steps, in this order, every time

We do not sell a retainer in the first meeting. We look at your numbers first, tell you what we found, and let that decide whether there is work worth doing.

A Free Review Of Your Numbers

Send us the last two years' balance sheets and the pain point that is bothering you most, if there is one. Within a week we come back with specific things you can fix this quarter. Most owners find at least one of them surprising. There is no charge and no obligation.

Two Weeks Inside The Business

We visit the plant or office and sit with your team, following the money end to end — purchase to payment, order to collection. We are looking for where cash gets stuck and where cost quietly leaks.

Fix The Things That Matter Most

Not everything at once. Usually it is a proper monthly reporting pack, an honest costing model, and written processes for the functions that are leaking. You see the first results inside a quarter.

Put It On Rails

Reporting moves onto a fixed monthly calendar. Where it helps, we install our own receivables or stock software so the numbers keep themselves up to date instead of someone rebuilding a spreadsheet every month.

Stay On Call

A monthly numbers meeting with you, a quarterly review in the format your bank and board expect, and someone to call when a lender, auditor or buyer asks a hard question.

Industries We Serve

Where we have spent the last twelve years

Most of our work is with owner-run manufacturing and trading businesses between ₹5 crore and ₹1,000 crore of turnover, largely across western Maharashtra and Mumbai. We know what a foundry's cost sheet looks like and what a spinning mill's stock statement should say.

Common Questions

Things owners ask us in the first meeting

What does a virtual CFO actually do for an SME?

A virtual CFO gives you senior finance leadership without a full-time salary. In practice that means a monthly reporting pack you can act on, a rolling cash forecast, product and customer profitability, control over working capital, and someone who handles your bankers and auditors. Your accountant records what happened; a virtual CFO tells you what to do next.

How much does it cost?

It depends on turnover, number of locations and how much of the work is one-time versus ongoing. As a guide, a monthly virtual CFO and MIS retainer for a business between ₹25 crore and ₹150 crore costs materially less than one experienced full-time finance manager. Project work such as a project report or a costing study is quoted as a fixed fee. We give you the number in writing before any work starts.

We already have a Chartered Accountant. How is this different?

Your CA files returns, closes the books and signs the audit — work that looks backwards and is driven by statutory dates. We look forward: what the numbers mean, where cash is stuck, what a product actually costs, and how to get finance sanctioned. We work alongside your existing CA, not instead of them.

How quickly will we see something change?

The free review gives you findings in about a week. The full diagnostic takes two to three weeks. Most clients see a measurable cash or cost improvement within one quarter — usually from receivables, slow inventory or purchase discipline, because that is where SME money is normally trapped.

What size of business do you work with?

Typically ₹5 crore to ₹1,000 crore of turnover — owner-run manufacturing, engineering, textile, packaging and trading businesses, plus MSMEs that want proper systems before they scale, and technology companies that need SOC or SOX compliance. Below ₹5 crore, our software and a short costing or process engagement is usually a better fit than a full retainer.

Do you work with businesses outside Kolhapur and Mumbai?

Yes. We are based in Kolhapur and Mumbai and work across Maharashtra — Pune, Sangli, Satara, Ichalkaranji, Nashik and Aurangabad — and with clients elsewhere in India and in the United States. Reviews and monthly meetings run online; diagnostics, stock audits and process work are done on site.

Who will actually handle our account?

One of the two Chartered Accountants who run the firm leads every engagement and attends your monthly meeting. You are not handed to a junior after the first meeting. That is deliberate, and it is the reason we take on a limited number of retained clients.

Start with a free 30-minute review of your numbers

Send us the last two years' balance sheets and the pain point that is bothering you most. We come back with things you can fix in the next quarter — no obligation, no sales deck.

CA Neel Shah
+91 93710 03780
CA Yash Patni
+91 83085 53339