We’re more than accountants

We’re here to make a real difference to you and your business. Delivering a high-quality, efficient compliance service is just part of that. Helping you develop, improve, and grow your business is the next step.

Our business development offerings are practical and tangible services to create long-term value for you and your business. 

Running and developing your own business can be tough. We get that. That’s why we’re with you for the whole journey, helping you to maximise opportunities and minimise threats along the way.

We offer a complimentary meeting to discuss how we can help you.

Our business growth services

Helping you to develop your business is more than just a tick box exercise. We take the time to get to know you and your business and what your objectives are. In doing so we can make recommendations that are tailored to your specific circumstances and work with you to help you to achieve your aims.

We can arrange a series of meetings and reviews to help you run your business, these include:

  • Proactive Accounting Meeting

    If you’re keen to improve your business performance and financial results but feel you're not being supported enough by your current accountant - give us a call.

    We’ll arrange a complimentary Proactive Accounting Meeting to review your unique situation and discuss how we may be able to support you. During the meeting, we’ll identify your burning issues, opportunities, and potential tax efficiencies, then establish goals and strategies to achieve them. We’ll also have a strategic discussion about the current and future direction of your entities.

    Following the meeting, if required, we’ll prepare a proposal for business development work and/or compliance services, with all costs priced upfront.

  • Annual Accounts Review

    It's essential to understand your annual accounts and taxation commitments. Devoting time to understanding your accounting reports is one of your first steps toward making better business decisions.

    Every business owner should be able to read and understand their annual accounts. They tell an important story about your business. However, most business owners don't have a background in accounting.

    The good news is that we can help you develop your financial skills. It's our job to empower you so you can run a better business.

  • Complimentary Client Review

    As a valued client, you’ll receive at least one Complimentary Client Review (CCR). In fact, this is an annual event for a number of our clients.

    The CCR is an opportunity for you to set and review your goals and gives you clarity around the actions you need to take to achieve those goals. It also stimulates strategic discussion and identifies burning issues, opportunities, and challenges so that you respond effectively.

    And of course, it’s an opportunity for our team to identify greater tax efficiencies and asset protection.

  • Cashflow and Profit Improvement Meeting

    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.

Our range of business growth services are outlined below

  • Business Planning and Advice

    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 values to facilitate a four-hour planning session to help you create a clear one-page business plan.

    The outcome of this process is to identify and prioritise goals (both short 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 too common in business - procrastination!

  • 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.

  • Management Accounts and Financial 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.

    We can produce monthly or quarterly management accounts which will provide you with real-time accounts and financial information to help you run your business.

    In addition, 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.

  • Cashflow Management

    Cashflow planning is the 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. We’ll conduct a thorough review of your processes to identify any potential causes of poor cashflow so 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 an action plan to ensure you implement improvement strategies for maximum results.

    Our cashflow planning service will help you to smooth out the financial peaks and troughs of your business and provide a valuable tool to help you to secure funding.