5 and 2 Consultants is an advisory firm specializing in strengthening the financial stability of faith-based colleges, seminaries, and universities. Most educational institutions are now struggling to stay ahead of today’s demanding economic climate. Rising costs, declining enrollments, and market forces are putting a strain on budgets, making it difficult for schools to maintain the same level of mission, quality and services.  Faith-based higher education is confronted with these formidable challenges:

• Rising Costs
• Maintaining Financial Sustainability
• Declining Enrollment
• Misplaced Capital Allocations
• Maintaining Capital Facilities
• Mission Distraction and Noise
• Inadequate Long-term Planning
• Technology Deployment

We will help you resolve baccalaureate and graduate school institutional financial challenges.   Based on our experience and our understanding of your unique requirements, we can tailer a specific approach of services that can cover any one or more of these areas:

• Interim Chief Financial Officer consulting (On-site or Virtual) 
• Long-term financial modeling to address enrollment, rising costs, and budget-balancing (e.g. three to five year institutional modeling that is interactive and provides for significant “what-if” modeling)
• Updating budget policies to be sustainable (i.e. deferred maintenance, appropriate endowment draws, capital expenditures, compensation, etc.)
• Chief Business Officer training and coaching for newer financial employees
• Provide finance business, accounting and operational guidance to Boards and Administrations (i.e. differences in fund accountings, restricted and unrestricted, and generally accepted accounting principles)
• Loan compliance or refinancing assistance
• Improve budgeting and forecasting for better-decision making 
• Others as requested.

We will tailor our services to augment your short- or long-term needs.

Please contact us for a free consultation.