TOGETHER A TEAM
Together we make it happen
Together we succeed
It's what we want that counts
WHAT WE DO
WHY WE DO IT
To achieve your goals
As expected we do the usual things you want from your accountant, year end accounts, corporate and personal tax returns, vat and payrolls.
However this is not enough for either ourselves or our clients who want to grow their business, improve their profits and have a quality life work balance so we take things further.
Our Business Improvement offerings are practical and tangible services that increase profits, improve cashflow and create long term value for our clients.
HOW WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Cashflow & Profit Improvement Meeting
In business, a healthy profit isn't enough. Even a profitable business can fail due to poor cashflow.
We want to help you better manage your cashflow. The first step is to determine your business's Cash Conversion Cycle. Then we can help you identify strategies to shorten the cycle - so you have more cash in your bank account.
Profit matters too. Increasing your profit can increase your cashflow. Implementing strategies to improve your cashflow and profit enables you to set up your business for success.
The sooner you attend an Improvement Meeting, the sooner you can improve your profit and cashflow and increase your money in your bank.
Quarterly Coaching
As a business owner you can at times feel alone and unsupported, spending little time working on your business and trapped in the day to day technical aspects. Our Quarterly Coaching service provides you with increased accountability and support so that you achieve the results you want from your business. The outcomes include increased profitability and cash flow, customised reporting templates to measure actual performance against forecasts and access to an expert sounding board to ensure you continue working towards your goals.
Management Reporting
If you’re not measuring your financial results and key drivers in your business, you can’t properly manage them or implement meaningful improvement strategies and achieve your business goals.
Your monthly Management Report will provide a snapshot of your results, ensuring you understand your financial position and have accurate and up-to-date information on which to base your decisions. Regularly monitoring your key drivers and financial results ensures you’re on track to achieve your goals.
We’ll start with an initial meeting to determine which drivers to measure and ensure you understand how to interpret your reports. Each month we’ll send you a report followed by a 15-minute momentum call to discuss your results, identify areas for improvement, and set actions to ensure you’re on track to achieve your goals.
Annual Forecasting
Cash is the lifeblood of any business; even a profitable business can fail because of poor cashflow.
Every business should undertake an annual Cashflow Forecast to aid their planning and decision-making. We want you to be proactive in managing your cashflow - not assuming you only need one if the bank asks for it.
When you know how much money will be coming in and out of your business and when, you can confidently plan and execute desired growth and improvement strategies to achieve positive change.
Cashflow Management
Cashflow planning is best practice in any business and critical to survival and growth. Our Cashflow Management service is designed to help you improve your Cash Conversion Cycle and maximise your cashflow. It will allow you to predict large cash outflows and respond to changes in your business.
Managing cashflow is all about your business processes. After preparing a Cashflow Forecast we’ll conduct a thorough review of your processes and identify any potential causes of poor cashflow so that we can treat the underlying issues.
We’ll meet with you on a quarterly basis to monitor, analyse and adjust your key cashflow drivers. Acting as your accountability coach, we’ll help you set annual goals and devise a 90 Day Action Plan to ensure you implement improvement strategies for maximum results.
KPI Improvement Coaching
We’ve developed this service to enable business owners to understand the key drivers in their business. The better you understand your business, the easier it will be to increase your profits and free up cashflow.
First, we’ll help you establish what your key drivers are. These may be financial (e.g. gross profit margin), or non-financial (e.g. customer satisfaction ratings). We’ll teach you how to measure each KPI and set improvement targets. Once you’re confident measuring each KPI we’ll provide monthly coaching to help you implement a tactical plan focusing on the business processes and behavioural changes required to ensure improvement.
Investing a little time each week and making simple changes can dramatically improve your KPIs, thus positively impacting your business performance and personal life.
Succession Planning
Succession Planning helps you clarify what you want for the future (taking into account business, personal and family expectations) and define the steps required to turn that vision into a reality. At least 3 - 5 years is the ideal timeframe to make sustainable improvements; basically the more time you have for planning and implementation the better.
We’ll begin the half-day Succession Planning session with a presentation providing an overview of important considerations, succession options and processes relevant to your business. We will then work with you to define your succession timeline and identify your ideal succession scenario, opportunities to improve your business value and vulnerabilities you need to manage, documenting them in a robust Succession Plan.
We’ll then set 12 month goals and quarterly goals and actions to achieve these. As a result, you’ll have a roadmap to guide decision making and ensure your business is in the best position to achieve maximum return on your hard work and investment.
Financial Awareness Coaching
We’ll help you to understand your business better, enabling you to better manage your cashflow. Good management decisions rely on a sound understanding of the financial implications for your business.
This service involves meeting with us regularly to discuss your financial results, culminating in you learning to produce and interpret your own customised monthly financial reports.
Annual One Page Business Plan
A great Business Planning process gets to the heart and soul of your business. Upon completion of pre-work we’ll have a greater understanding of your vision and core values in order to facilitate a four hour planning session to help you create a clear one page Business Plan.
The outcome of this service is to identify and prioritise goals, both short term and long term, create strategies to achieve your goals, enable you to review actual performance against targets and establish a 90 Day Action Plan to address immediate and critical issues.
Importantly, this process eliminates a factor that is all too common in business - procrastination.
Monthly Coaching
Owning and operating a business is hard work. Our Monthly Coaching programme provides you with accountability and support to ensure you make the best decisions for you and your business. We’ll work together to develop strategies to achieve your desired work outcomes and gain the lifestyle you want.
Whether your business needs guiding through a major change, or you simply wish to have regular contact with a trusted coach, we’d love to help!
WE ARE MORE THAN ACCOUNTANTS
Contact us today to see how our powerful Business Improvement services can provide immense value and clarity to you.
We also provide the traditional services you expect as well
Essential
Annual accounts
Company accounts
Construction industry returns
Corporation tax
Partnership tax
Payroll
Personal tax
Self assessment
VAT
Why is the essential important?
Essential work are all the necessary things that have to be done when running a business either as a sole trader, partnership, or limited company.
If these items are not completed in a timely fashion then HMRC will issue penalties and fines until they receive the information.
We provide these services to ensure you are complying with current legislation, and meeting your legal obligations so that you can rest assured knowing that all the necessary forms have been completed and submitted to HMRC on time.
However this essential work just means you are meeting your minimum legal obligations and the information provided contains too little useful information being historical in nature to give you real benefit in running your business.
Time or Tax Saving Services
Bookkeeping
Budgets and forecasts
Capital gains tax
Companies House administration
Company incorporation
Inheritance tax
Management accounts
PAYE registration
Self assessment registration
Vat registration
Saving you time or money
These are additional support requests that our clients usually want us to provide which are outside the standard routine essential work.
With us carrying out the regular bookkeeping, management accounts, budgets and forecasts you not only save time, you also have more up to date information on which to base business decisions helping with future tax planning.
Talk to us about these and our business improvement services.
