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For club CFOs and controllers
Tools and services for strategic financial leadership
Imagine 24/7 access to a centralized database of reliable club industry data, a powerful analytics engine, and automated, meeting-ready reports. Club Benchmarking gives club finance leaders the benchmarks and tools to explain what’s really driving performance and to advise the board with confidence.
Why financial executives count on Club Benchmarking
The most powerful business tool you’ll ever love
Power, accuracy, and convenience are a few of the reasons so many club financial executives count on Club Benchmarking. Credible third-party data, delivered in professional graphical reports, is a click away whenever the board or the general manager asks how the club compares.
A trusted internal advisor
Strengthen your position with the board and management with credible, third-party benchmarks in professional reports.
See what drives performance
Understand what’s really behind the club’s financial results, and communicate it clearly. What Club Benchmarking measures
Back up your expertise
Support your knowledge of club accounting and finance with the industry’s leading business intelligence tools.
Reclaim your time
Spend fewer hours building reports and presentations, and fewer completing the many industry surveys that arrive each year.
Apples-to-apples benchmarking
Every club’s financials, mapped to one standard
Every club codes its financials differently, so Club Benchmarking maps each club’s trial balance to a common chart of accounts first. Your results line up against peer clubs on the same terms, and the numbers you bring to the finance committee can be defended with industry fact.
Tools and services for CFOs and controllers
Everything the finance team needs, in one place
Choose individual solutions or bring them together in Summit.
Navigator benchmarking
Financial and operational benchmarks, the Financial Insight Model™, and KPIs that give the board a common framework for club finance. About Navigator
Strategic Monthly Dashboard
Free to any club that submits monthly data. See how the club’s monthly results and trends compare with peer clubs throughout the year. About SMD
Compensation and workforce
Compensation benchmarks for 150+ club positions and workforce analysis that balance payroll budgets against member service expectations. About compensation benchmarking
COMPASS capital planning
More than a reserve study. An Asset Evaluation Study plus software that keeps the long-range capital plan, and the capital dues behind it, current. About COMPASS
Board Portal
Post financials and board packets once, attached to the agenda items they support, and see who opened them before the meeting. About the Board Portal
Board education and advisory
Objective, third-party facts that support the board in meeting its fiduciary duties. About advisory services
Summit
One set of numbers for the whole leadership team
Summit brings Navigator benchmarking, Viewpoints surveys, and the Board Portal together, unified by the Private Club Balanced Scorecard. Finance, operations, membership, and governance are measured on one scorecard that the board, the GM, and the finance team share.
Financials in context
Results sit beside peer benchmarks and member feedback, so the conversation moves from what happened to why.
Packets that build themselves
Financial reports attach to the agenda items they support, and the board works from the same data in the same login.
Objectives you can measure
Strategic objectives are tracked with owners and status, tied to the KPIs that show whether they’re working.
Capital planning
Capital planning that never goes out of date
A static reserve study is out of date the day it’s delivered. COMPASS combines an Asset Evaluation Study with software the club keeps current year after year, so the finance team can model capital dues and assessments with confidence.
A living capital plan
Update asset conditions, costs, and timing as the club changes, and see the effect on long-range funding right away.
Start with the facts
The Asset Evaluation Study establishes the condition and replacement cost of the club’s assets, informed by 500+ studies completed.
Bring the board along
Clear reports make the case for capital funding decisions in terms the finance committee and board can act on.
From the Resource Center
Research for club finance leaders
Whitepapers, webinars, and podcasts from Club Benchmarking.
Whitepaper
Evolution of the Head of Finance Role in Clubs
How the club CFO and controller role is changing, and what boards now expect. Read
Whitepaper
Zombie Debt: Causes and Costs
How long-term debt builds up in clubs, and what it costs members over time. Read
Webinar
Private Club Debt and Assessments
What the data says about debt, assessments, and how clubs fund their future. Watch
Webinar
Using Benchmarks in the Budget Process
How to test the budget against peer clubs before it reaches the board. Watch
Podcast
Budget to Your Club’s Vision
Why raising dues by CPI falls short, and how to set dues the board can justify. Listen
Common questions
For club finance leaders, explained
How does Club Benchmarking make comparisons apples-to-apples?
Each club’s trial balance is mapped to a common chart of accounts before any comparison is made, so peer results line up on the same terms regardless of how each club codes its books.
Is our club’s data kept confidential?
Yes. Your club’s own results are visible only to your club. Other clubs see industry and peer-group benchmarks, never your club’s individual data.
What formats do reports come in?
Reports download in PowerPoint, PDF, or Word, ready for finance committee and board packets.
Is the Strategic Monthly Dashboard part of Navigator?
No. SMD is free to any club. Clubs get access by participating, submitting monthly data in return for peer trends.
Does Club Benchmarking do reserve studies?
COMPASS is more than a reserve study. It starts with an Asset Evaluation Study of the club’s assets and replacement costs, then keeps the capital plan current in software the club uses year after year.
What is Summit?
Summit is Club Benchmarking’s club operating system. It combines Navigator benchmarking, Viewpoints surveys, and the Board Portal, unified by the Private Club Balanced Scorecard.
Data-driven leadership begins here
Get financial and operational benchmarking
We’ll walk you through Navigator’s reports and KPIs, answer your questions, and show how finance teams use Club Benchmarking with their boards.
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