1. Financial Advisory PSA
  2. Data model
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The tables behind Financial Advisory PSA

Financial Advisory PSA ships with 13 tables, grouped here by the feature that uses them. Every record your team works with lives in one of them, and you can add fields and tables in Proto.

Tables
13
Features
7, plus shared settings
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How the model is organised

Firm and clients

Organizations, Advisors and Clients establish practice ownership, client terms and the people doing the work.

Delivery

Engagements link clients to service entries, time entries, Expenses and advisory deliverables.

Billing

Fee billings relate to advisory deliverables, while engagement fields summarize delivered and invoiced value.

Governance

Review decisions, operation receipts and compliance evidence preserve decisions, execution results and linked files.

Every table, by feature

Clients and engagements

3 tablesAbout this feature
  • Clients

    Client master records with ownership and billing terms.

    Linked to Advisors, Organizations
  • Engagements

    Billable engagements with contract value, budget and delivery status.

    Linked to Clients, Advisors, Organizations
  • Organizations

    Firm business units, practice groups and regional offices.

Advisor capacity

3 tablesAbout this feature
  • Advisors

    Consultants and delivery staff with rates and capacity.

    Linked to Organizations
  • Organizations

    Firm business units, practice groups and regional offices.

  • Engagements

    Billable engagements with contract value, budget and delivery status.

    Linked to Clients, Advisors, Organizations

Time and expenses

4 tablesAbout this feature
  • Time entries

    Logged consultant time by client and engagement.

    Linked to Advisors, Clients, Engagements
  • Expenses

    Reimbursable and billable engagement expenses.

    Linked to Engagements, Advisors
  • Engagements

    Billable engagements with contract value, budget and delivery status.

    Linked to Clients, Advisors, Organizations
  • Advisors

    Consultants and delivery staff with rates and capacity.

    Linked to Organizations

Service approvals

4 tablesAbout this feature
  • Service entries

    Delivered service lines billed against an engagement.

    Linked to Engagements, Advisors
  • Review decisions

    Approval decisions recorded against service, time and expense subjects.

    Linked to Advisors
  • Operation receipts

    Evidence of executed billing, approval and document operations.

    Linked to Advisors
  • Engagements

    Billable engagements with contract value, budget and delivery status.

    Linked to Clients, Advisors, Organizations

Deliverables

4 tablesAbout this feature
  • Advisory deliverables

    Contractual milestones that trigger billing.

    Linked to Engagements, Advisors
  • Engagements

    Billable engagements with contract value, budget and delivery status.

    Linked to Clients, Advisors, Organizations
  • Advisors

    Consultants and delivery staff with rates and capacity.

    Linked to Organizations
  • Operation receipts

    Evidence of executed billing, approval and document operations.

    Linked to Advisors

Fee billing

3 tablesAbout this feature
  • Fee billings

    Invoices and receipts raised against milestones.

    Linked to Advisory deliverables
  • Advisory deliverables

    Contractual milestones that trigger billing.

    Linked to Engagements, Advisors
  • Operation receipts

    Evidence of executed billing, approval and document operations.

    Linked to Advisors

Margin and evidence

6 tablesAbout this feature
  • Engagements

    Billable engagements with contract value, budget and delivery status.

    Linked to Clients, Advisors, Organizations
  • Service entries

    Delivered service lines billed against an engagement.

    Linked to Engagements, Advisors
  • Advisory deliverables

    Contractual milestones that trigger billing.

    Linked to Engagements, Advisors
  • Fee billings

    Invoices and receipts raised against milestones.

    Linked to Advisory deliverables
  • Compliance evidence

    Files linked to records across the app.

    Linked to Advisors
  • Operation receipts

    Evidence of executed billing, approval and document operations.

    Linked to Advisors

Shared and settings

1 table
  • Users

    Users

    Linked to Users

Keys and references

Keep client and engagement identifiers stable during migration. Advisor references identify managers, owners, reviewers and actors. A fee billing references its advisory deliverable; the deliverable references its engagement. Evidence stores a parent table name and record identifier, so confirm each pair against its intended source.

Migration order

  1. Load Organizations, Advisors and Clients with their ownership references.
  2. Load Engagements with client, manager, practice, dates, contract value and budget.
  3. Load service, time, expense and deliverable records with their engagement and advisor links.
  4. Load fee billings, then decision, operation and evidence history with original references.
  5. Reconcile sample engagement totals and open billing states before the team enters new work.

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