Professional Services
Accountants, lawyers, and outside advisors.
Professional Services covers fees paid to outside experts — the accountants, lawyers, and consultants you bring in as needed.
Appears under Operating Expenses in the Foreqast table, as an expense. Ledger key: Services.
What lands here
What to watch out for
Professional services arrive in bursts rather than evenly: year-end accounts, a funding round, a contract review. The trailing average therefore reads high for a month or two after each burst and near zero in between, and it is almost never right in the month a known engagement actually lands. Where you know a piece of work is coming, model it rather than projecting it.
Planning this line properly is what Simulating fixed costs is for.
How it's forecast
With the default setup — no extensions, no drivers, no custom projections — Professional Services is projected from your own booked actuals using the trailing 30-day average: the last 30 days are summed and divided by 30 to get a daily rate, which is carried forward flat and aggregated into each week and month.
daily rate = sum of the last 30 days of actuals ÷ 30
monthly forecast ≈ daily rate × days in monthFor Professional Services, €1,500 booked over the last 30 days gives €1,500 ÷ 30 ≈ €50/day, so a 30-day month projects to about €1,500. As new actuals import, the window rolls forward and the projection updates on its own.
Horizon: up to 24 months of history and 24 months forward. The table shows 12 months (or 13 weeks / 90 days) by default — scroll horizontally for the rest.
Want a different shape — a fixed cost, a growth trend, or a share of revenue? That's what the Custom Projection extension and driver-based forecasting are for. This page describes the default, historical-only behaviour.