Most business owners with a KPI dashboard fall into one of two camps. Either they find it genuinely useful and look at it regularly. Or they…
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Almost every conversation I have with a business owner ahead of a sale starts the same way. The books are clean, the business is straightforward and…
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Whilst a number of conversations I have had regarding exit or sale readiness have been positive, there are many business owners who have spent years building…
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Most acquisition planning focuses on finding the right deal and completing it. Integration which is the third stage of our Prepare, Acquire, Integrate framework tends to…
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The term fractional CFO is used to describe a wide range of things. At one end, it means a part-time CFO helping a small business with…
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There is a certain reluctance of business owners to have a difficult conversation with their bank. The instinct is understandable as the relationship matters, the stakes…
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Cash is not always a crisis. But when it becomes the dominant operational metric with every conversation revolving around the bank balance rather than the broader…
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Most owner-managed businesses do not make a conscious decision to move from a compliance relationship to an advisory one. They drift into it usually triggered by…
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Most owner-managed businesses have management accounts. Far fewer have management accounts that are actually useful. The difference is not technical. Good management accounts are designed around…
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Most business owners preparing for a sale spend significant time getting the business ready and relatively little time understanding what the sale process itself actually involves.…
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