ADDED VALUE SERVICES
Our core Taxation Services consist of...
Business Growth
Business Valuations
Business Plans
Management Systems
Raising Finance
Strategic Planning
Business Growth
Business growth services include...
Setting goals and an action plan to get you where you want to be - see strategic planning
Removing the blocks that are stopping you from getting where you want to be
Bench-marking against other businesses in your industry - do you know how you compare to the best and the average in your industry
Getting the systems in place to allow your business to grow
Performance monitoring including use of key performance indicators
Marketing strategy
Unique selling point development
Pricing strategy - have you tested what your optimum selling price is?
Raising finance to allow you to invest in growth
Improving the potential of your team members
Measuring and testing everything so that you can continually improve
For more information see our ...
Business growth helpsheets
Business profitability calculators
Business Valuations
Valuations can be required for...
Monitoring how the business is performing against goals;
Taxation and negotiating with the tax authorities;
Business sales and purchases;
Business mergers;
Divorce proceedings and matrimonial disputes;
Raising finance;
Company buy back of shares;
Tax planning;
Financial reporting requirements;
Shareholder/partner disputes;
Pension and exit planning.
We can provide business valuation services for unincorporated entities and shares in unquoted companies based in the UK including assistance with dispute resolution and litigation.
Business Plans
Business plans are also regularly needed to support finance applications, especially bank lending. We can assist with all aspects of the business plan including...
Business strategy and goal setting
Budgets
Cash flow forecasts
Profit forecasts
All written elements of the plan such as business background, marketing plan, SWOT analysis, markets, competition and all of the other key elements that need presenting in the most suitable way to lenders.
After you've produced the plan, you need to monitor how you are doing against the plan and we can help you with this.
See our helpsheet on writing a business plan.
Management Systems
Our consultancy services can include a review of your management information systems, particularly in relation to your financial systems and controls that will enable you to take full control of your business.
This can include...
Cash controls
Debtor control
Stock control
Purchasing systems
Cost controls
Budgeting
Financial reporting systems
Reliable management information allows you to react quickly to changing business needs.
Raising Finance
Do you know the most likely source of finance at the best rates?
Through our close working relationships with finance sources we can assist in advising on the right type of finance for you and offer advice on...
Bank loans and overdrafts
Hire purchase
Personal loans
Sales invoice factoring and discounting
Leasing and contract hire
Venture capital
Private investment sources
For more information see our:
How to get a grant helpsheet
How to raise finance helpsheet
Writing a business plan helpsheet
Strategic Planning
You've probably been told many times that planning is crucial to success in business but somehow you've never quite got round to it.
Rather than having a planned strategy you run your business by...
Trusting your intuition;
Using instant decisions;
And generally riding the rollercoaster.
That may well work and we do realise that gut feelings are a crucial business skill in successful entrepreneurs. But planning is still crucial. Research shows that those businesses that do plan and have clear strategies are far more successful.
Our strategic planning service helps you...
Agree on long-term strategic goals both personally and for the business
Identify where you are now
Work ON the business so that you can spend less time working IN it
Indentify the blocks in the strategy
Agree an operational strategy to overcome the blocks and meet those goals
Develop business growth systems
Grow a great team of people
Monitor your results against those goals
Manage the money in your business
Develop an exit strategy
The result is an agreed ACTION PLAN.
For more information see our ...
Business growth helpsheets
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