Financial Forecasting Package

Equip your firm with a structured suite of budgeting, cashflow forecasting and pricing resources to help SME clients set realistic financial targets, test profitability and make more informed decisions about the future.

Equip your firm with a structured 13-module training and implementation program covering strategy, team development, service selection, marketing, client needs analysis, selling, launch and ongoing delivery of business advisory services.

Give your firm a structured Business Evaluation Workshop process to help SME clients review financial performance, cashflow, customers, operations, risks and future priorities — then convert the findings into a practical action plan.

Equip your firm with a structured business planning process and 84 practical resources to help you scope, manage, deliver and review professional business planning engagements with SME clients.

Give your firm a regular reason to stay in contact with SME clients, prospects and professional affiliates using ready-made Business Plus+ newsletters focused on practical commercial and business advisory matters — not just taxation and compliance.

Equip your firm with a practical Buying a Business consultancy framework covering client preparation, preliminary financial analysis, due diligence, company-share acquisitions, market and location research, business planning, finance applications and engagement management.

Equip your firm with a practical Cashflow Management Evaluation covering work in progress, stock, creditors, cashflow cycles, financial management, liquidity KPIs and relevant debtor-financing options — together with the documents needed to scope, quote and manage the assignment.

Give your firm a practical framework for delivering ongoing Virtual CFO services across financial reporting, KPIs, forecasting, working capital, banking, risk, commercial management, business performance and governance — supported by more than 100 forms, papers, checklists and templates.

Give your firm a structured client mentoring system built around 12 SME business modules and 76 staged series. Select the topic that matches the client’s situation, brand the supplied material for your firm, distribute it progressively and use the surveys and follow-up process to identify opportunities for further advisory assistance.

Give your firm a substantial library of ready-made SME seminar and webinar material covering more than 35 business topics, supported by seminar organisation templates, client papers, presentation material and practical resources for promoting, delivering and evaluating your events.

Equip your firm with a complete Crowd-Sourced Funding advisory framework covering client identification, eligibility assessment, marketing, intermediary selection, company preparation, due diligence, Offer Document working papers, investor protections, offer management and post-capital-raising requirements.

Equip your firm with a complete Debtors’ Management Evaluation framework covering credit applications, customer due diligence, terms of trade, transaction procedures, proactive monitoring, Debtors’ Days Outstanding, debt recovery, PPSR considerations, financing options, reporting and implementation.

Equip your firm with a comprehensive Early Stage Innovation Company advisory framework covering self-assessment, supporting evidence, Gateway and Principles Based Tests, due diligence, investment readiness, investor information and investment-pitch preparation.

Equip your firm with a practical Export Market Development Grant framework covering eligibility, Tier selection, Plan To Market preparation, eligible and ineligible expenditure, applications, outcomes, Grant Agreements and the ongoing reporting obligations associated with the program.

Assisting SME Clients with Government Grants

• Help SME clients understand and access available government grants.
• Assist clients in the grant application process.

Potential Opportunities for Accounting Firms

• Undertake projects with 50% government funding, including:
  • Business/Strategic Plans.
  • Predictive Accounting: Budgets, Cashflow Forecasts, Projected Balance Sheets.
  • Recordkeeping for Research & Development Tax Incentive Rebate claims.
  • Export Market Development Grant applications.
  • Leadership Team Mentoring and Training.

Equip your firm with a practical PPSR Due Diligence System for identifying personal property exposures, reviewing customer and asset policies, assessing internal registration procedures and recommending stronger controls around transactions that may require PPSR protection.

Equip your firm with a professional-practice fee-setting framework built around labour on-costs, productivity, chargeable hours, overhead recovery and targeted profitability — supported by a detailed Charge Out Rate Calculator and practical financial-management resources.

Equip your firm with an end-to-end Research and Development documentation framework covering project planning, hypotheses and systematic experimentation, core and supporting activities, time and cost recording, contractors and professionals, intellectual property, feedstock and clawback calculations, annual due diligence and preparation of information for AusIndustry registration and the company’s tax agent.

Turn selling a business into a structured advisory engagement covering sale readiness, business valuation, the valuation gap, staff and owner dependence, trial due diligence, sale planning, buyer information, confidentiality, the Selling Memorandum and finalisation issues.

Give your firm a ready-made SME Debtors’ System Manual that can be edited and branded for an individual client, supported by credit-application, customer due-diligence, PPSR, recovery, Debtors’ Days Outstanding and staff-training resources for implementing and periodically reviewing the system.

Use three levels of SME Needs Analysis — detailed Word, sectioned Excel and a simple annual questionnaire — to uncover client priorities, identify advisory opportunities and create clear follow-up actions based on what the client says matters most.

Give an experienced partner or senior manager a structured framework for providing Executive Director / Finance Director-style support to SME clients — helping management implement strategy, improve financial performance, strengthen governance, manage business-development projects and give the CEO an ongoing trusted adviser.

Equip your firm with a comprehensive succession-planning framework covering owner objectives, management succession, ownership options, family-business governance, retirement readiness, corporate structure, legal and taxation considerations, stakeholder questionnaires, SWOT analysis and preparation of a formal Succession Planning Report and action plan.

Give your firm a practical Tradies Charge Out Rate Calculator that works from each client’s labour on-costs, wages, paid hours, productivity, overheads, materials mark-up and targeted profit to calculate individual charge-out rates and the chargeable hours needed to support the business’s profit objective.

Equip your firm with a structured Clothing Retailer Business Health Check, including a linked KPI workbook, break-even and working-capital analysis, ratios, benchmarking, valuation, “what-if” scenarios and the engagement documents needed to scope, quote, manage and report on the assignment.

Equip your firm with a structured Commercial Building Industry Business Health Check, including a linked KPI workbook, break-even and working-capital analysis, ratios, benchmarking, valuation, “what-if” scenarios and the engagement documents needed to scope, quote, manage and report on the assignment.

Equip your firm with a structured Pharmacy Business Health Check, including a linked KPI workbook, break-even and working-capital analysis, ratios, benchmarking, valuation, “what-if” scenarios and the engagement documents needed to scope, quote, manage and report on the assignment.

Equip your firm with a structured Road Transport Business Health Check that analyses sales, customers, own-truck and subcontractor activity, cost per kilometre, gross profit, wages, fuel and vehicle costs, productivity, working capital and profitability — supported by the resources needed to scope, quote, manage and report on the advisory engagement.

Equip your firm with a structured Supermarket Business Health Check that links detailed customer, sales, department, gross-profit, staffing, floor-space, stock and financial information to industry-specific KPIs, supported by break-even, working-capital, benchmarking, valuation and reporting resources.

• Inventory Raw Materials
• Inventory Completed Stock
• Labour Manning Plans
• Labour Costing
• Debtors
• Work In Progress
• Research And Development
• Capital Expenditure
• Creditors
• Loans