Paul BarnhurstFP&A Expert Empowering Finance Professionals to Excel Everday

The biggest opportunities go unnoticed.

2 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of his YouTube video, Paul Barnhurst explains the focus of his company's software on the financial planning & analysis (FP&A) side rather than routine accounting. He notes that typical FP&A professionals spend 20–50 hours each month manually digging through financial data to identify cost‑saving, pricing, vendor‑consolidation, and insurance opportunities. Barnhurst claims his tool reduces that effort to a few minutes, delivering a direct time‑saving of 20–50 hours per month. For organizations where finance staff are too occupied with day‑to‑day tasks to perform strategic analysis, the solution acts as a purely value‑add service that can improve the bottom line without requiring additional analyst effort.

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if you have someone actually analyzing the books. So ignore the technical side of doing the accounting and closing the books. We do a little bit of work there, but really our focus is on the FP&A side. For that FP&A side, if the person has time, they're probably spending somewhere between 20 to 50 hours a month peeking around the numbers, seeing, hey, I can create more value here, I can adjust pricing here. I believe our tool cuts that 20 to 50 hour exercise down to a few minutes of human time. So it is 20 to 50 hours per month of time savings directly. But here's the big kicker. In a lot of companies, people are just too busy managing the day-to-day. So there's not somebody who's stepping back often and just thinking about the numbers and looking through the data and doing analysis. And for those companies, this is just a purely value-additive service where you don't have somebody trying to like go around, optimize your costs, or think about vendor consolidation or pricing, or whether you have all the right insurance policies, because people got stuff to do. And that's an area where it's not a time-saving, it's just directly accretive to your bottom line.