Category: Strategy and Finance
Articles
Procurement
You cannot effectively attack your costs if you don’t know what they truly are. Understanding your spend categories will help you design and prioritize your savings strategy and tactics
Marketing
Ten tips - marketing as a practice is simply about understanding customers, satisfying them, differentiating yourself & developing creative communications channels
Credit crunch
Will your company survive?
In our view what you should do to protect yourself in this climate is nothing more than good management practice. The only difference now is that you must do it to survive – a good bit of student syndrome
Business Plan
You may not want to invest the time to produce the plan but you need to. Unfortunately most businesses only produce business plans to satisfy banks or investors and then forget they have it.
Cash Management
Business must ensure cash is managed effectively and there is some realism to cash flow forecasting. Of course not all businesses do a cash flow forecast!
Secondary schools – Are they a business to do business with?
People who operate in the education environment or are considering trying to do business with this environment must read this!
Turnaround or Improve a Business
It might seem complicated and unachievable but in our view it’s just about adopting good practices so don’t give up.
Performance Improvement Workshops
Effective Performance Measures – the key to sustaining profit
Regular measuring is essential, instead of waiting for the yearly report
Finance for non-financial managers
Financial language and the impact of managers decisions
Strategic Marketing Master class
How produce an accurate and relevant marketing plan
Protect your Cash and Profit
Don't let your business run out of cash
Basic Accounts
Book-keeping basics
Strategic Website Master class
Maximise return from your website
Ready made packages
Plan for success
Business plans that work
Trevor Morley
Senior Consultant
Trevor is a mature individual with strong ‘coal face’ experience gained over thirty years at the centre of the finance function of businesses from £1.5m to over £210m turnover, experiencing growth both organically, by acquisition and merger.
John Hill
Accounts, Cash flow, Book keeping
John is a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA) with a professional ‘track-record’ of financial management in enterprises ranging from limited companies in the UK to International Plcs.
Geoff Trapnell
Business Improvement, Operations,
Coaching & Mentoring
Geoff is an experienced manager from manufacturing industry who has been successful in delivering performance improvements within businesses.