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Prove · baseline BL-075

Savings Assurance

Savings Assurance, all regions, as run before the agents were switched on.

Baseline register

How it was measured

Activity survey

Method
Activity survey
Method note
Self-reported effort allocation collected from the team.
Window
FY24 Q3, thirteen weeks
Sample
7,920
Confidence in the method
0.53

Sign-off

Who accepted this as the number to beat

Status
Contested
Signed by
Sofia Lindqvist
Role
Finance Business Partner, Operations
Signed
21.9 months ago
Challenged by
Ana Duarte, Group Financial Controller
Caveat carried with the number
Signed and then challenged.

Where the benefit lands

Account and cost center this baseline reconciles to

General ledger account
6500 · Outsourced services, shared centers
Managed-service fees for the shared towers.
Corporate GL · Third party · owner Sofia Lindqvist, Finance Business Partner, Operations
Cost center
CC-2020 · Procurement
Global · owner Sofia Lindqvist · annual budget $17.60m
Procurement & Source-to-Payfunction view

Benefit lines resting on this baseline

5 lines · $7.36m claimed · $6.26m realized · $0 verified

PeriodCategoryClaimedRealizedVerifiedStatusVarianceJournal
FY25 Q3Outsourced cost$948.4k$588.0knot verifiedDisputed
Method mismatch
The baseline was measured by survey and the realized figure by system extract.
not posted
FY25 Q4Outsourced cost$1.38m$1.34mnot verifiedDisputed
Unexplained
Internal audit could not trace part of the realized figure to a driver.
not posted
FY26 Q1Outsourced cost$1.76m$1.44mnot verifiedDisputed
Volume
Seasonal volume ran ahead of baseline, which flatters the realized figure rather than the claim.
not posted
FY26 Q2Outsourced cost$2.10m$2.12mnot verifiedDisputed
Timing
Benefit landed one period later than claimed.
not posted
FY26 Q3Outsourced cost$1.17m$774.9knot verifiedPeriod open
Period open
The period is not closed.
not posted
What this record is, and what it is not

A benefit realization ledger reconciled to a general ledger needs the customer’s actual baseline figures and account structure.

The measurement window ran FY24 Q3, thirteen weeks over a sample of 7,920. That sample size is on the page because a baseline drawn from twelve cases and one drawn from forty thousand are not the same instrument, and averaging them into a single confidence figure would hide which one you are looking at.

0 of 5 cash lines resting on this baseline carry a journal reference. A benefit line with no journal reference has not touched the general ledger, so it is shown as claimed rather than counted as realized cash.