"Reinventing Business Basics:Staying Nimble in Any Business Economyselipkin
Presented at the Women in Business Empowerment Workshops on February 9th, 2010 by Sarah Lipkin and Nancy Kappler-Foster of SCORE. Content Created by Sarah Lipkin.
The document discusses implementing MYOB ProfitOptimiser software in an accounting practice to provide value-added services to clients and strengthen partnerships. It outlines training objectives like conducting financial analyses, communicating outcomes confidently, and developing a client presentation. Key steps in the MYOB ProfitOptimiser consultation process are explained, including identifying important ratios, stress testing through goal seeking and sensitivity analysis, and linking financial goals to business strategies.
The document discusses financial management benchmarks and metrics that can help businesses improve. It introduces MyCake, a service that provides individualized benchmarks and comparisons on key financial indicators such as costs, profits, and expenditures. Businesses that sign up for MyCake get insights into how their performance compares to industry averages and top performers. This helps companies identify goals and areas for improvement. MyCake ensures user data is kept private and secure.
If you\'re preparing to take in investment then what are the things you\'re going to need to consider re the financial plans, the market context and your place in the good the bad and the ugly for your sector.
The document discusses Total Reward Solutions, a company that helps other companies create effective total rewards programs. It explains that a total rewards program, which combines compensation, benefits, and performance management, can attract top talent, reduce turnover, and drive business success. The company offers services like compensation audits, benefits analysis, and job evaluation to ensure companies have market-competitive and compliant total rewards programs.
The document outlines an agenda for a startup leadership program on financial modeling. It includes presentations on what a financial model is, how to build an income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. It discusses how financial models are useful for entrepreneurs and startups by providing an analytical lens, operating roadmap, risk assessment, scenario exploration, and as a pitch tool for investors. The document also covers best practices for model construction and common business metrics and economic indicators analyzed in financial models.
"Reinventing Business Basics:Staying Nimble in Any Business Economyselipkin
Presented at the Women in Business Empowerment Workshops on February 9th, 2010 by Sarah Lipkin and Nancy Kappler-Foster of SCORE. Content Created by Sarah Lipkin.
The document discusses implementing MYOB ProfitOptimiser software in an accounting practice to provide value-added services to clients and strengthen partnerships. It outlines training objectives like conducting financial analyses, communicating outcomes confidently, and developing a client presentation. Key steps in the MYOB ProfitOptimiser consultation process are explained, including identifying important ratios, stress testing through goal seeking and sensitivity analysis, and linking financial goals to business strategies.
The document discusses financial management benchmarks and metrics that can help businesses improve. It introduces MyCake, a service that provides individualized benchmarks and comparisons on key financial indicators such as costs, profits, and expenditures. Businesses that sign up for MyCake get insights into how their performance compares to industry averages and top performers. This helps companies identify goals and areas for improvement. MyCake ensures user data is kept private and secure.
If you\'re preparing to take in investment then what are the things you\'re going to need to consider re the financial plans, the market context and your place in the good the bad and the ugly for your sector.
The document discusses Total Reward Solutions, a company that helps other companies create effective total rewards programs. It explains that a total rewards program, which combines compensation, benefits, and performance management, can attract top talent, reduce turnover, and drive business success. The company offers services like compensation audits, benefits analysis, and job evaluation to ensure companies have market-competitive and compliant total rewards programs.
The document outlines an agenda for a startup leadership program on financial modeling. It includes presentations on what a financial model is, how to build an income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. It discusses how financial models are useful for entrepreneurs and startups by providing an analytical lens, operating roadmap, risk assessment, scenario exploration, and as a pitch tool for investors. The document also covers best practices for model construction and common business metrics and economic indicators analyzed in financial models.
Shared Services Pricing Models - Drive Desired Behavior with the Right Pricin...Stephen G. Lynch
The pricing model chosen for a company's shared services has a significant impact on how the business units that consume those services behave. An effective pricing model that is buyer-driven will enable competitive pricing, deliver needed services, drive innovation, and properly allocate organizational resources. In contrast, a supplier-driven model where the business units have little input into services and pricing is bureaucratic and will not promote innovation or cost leadership. Careful consideration of pricing options is needed to select a model that creates the right incentives and speaks to the needs of stakeholders.
Business relevance: ITSM which delivers outcomes - Simon Kent, SollertisSITS - The ITSM Show
To be relevant, IT should lead the business through the maze of technology choices to deliver outcomes against business strategies and objectives. This seminar explains the starting point for delivering an outcomes based approach which will help IT reengineer its approach to service provision, and the power to chart and navigate the future
The primary motivations for outsourcing are not surprising: 87 percent seek to reduce operating costs, 81 percent seek greater flexibility and scale, and 74 percent seek to standardize processes. Though outsourcing is the most favored strategies globally we still get to hear “outsourcing horror stories”. For both the parties to work harmoniously let’s look at some approaches towards outsourcing best practice.
Foresite’s Brian Hawkes explains the practical application of driver-based rolling forecasts and performance analytics for realising sales targets and avoiding forecasting becoming an unachieved prediction or statement of aspiration. He explains how up to 95% of commercial activities are inadequately analysed in business reporting and reveals how getting the right information from the right place can be a rich source of analytics for business drivers, limiters and inputs; their impact on sales trajectory and the remedial capability to close forecast gaps. Whilst this information is critical for supporting performance management and financial control, it often does not warrant the complex BI or prescriptive SFA systems that have been the traditional solutions for so long and can distract management from the real issues in their business. Lean and agile systems are robust, easily understood and essential to establishing business forecasts and insights that are both provable and evidence-based.
Outsourcing is contracting work to an outside vendor and can range from local subcontracting to offshoring work globally. When deciding to outsource, organizations consider factors like workload, expertise, costs, technology shifts, and focusing staff on core capabilities. Best practices for outsourcing include establishing clear objectives, choosing a compatible provider, considering long-term goals over short-term savings, maintaining on-site presence, and retaining responsibility while involving senior leadership. A survey found about half of major enterprises plan to increase application development and IT outsourcing in 2013, with IT, finance, and administrative processes being most common areas for future outsourcing.
The document outlines a thorough RFP process for selecting outsourcing partners, including assembling a cross-functional team, defining requirements and selection criteria, issuing an RFP, conducting site visits and customer interviews, negotiating contracts, managing the transition, and ongoing governance. Key steps include developing an evaluation scorecard, issuing an RFP to shortlisted vendors, conducting security audits of vendor sites, interviewing existing customers, negotiating contracts and service level agreements, and establishing governance processes for managing the relationship. The goal is to select the right partner through transparency and fit to optimize outsourcing through the outsourcing lifecycle.
This document discusses Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and their benefits. It defines ERP as a business management software that integrates key functions like planning, manufacturing, sales, marketing to provide a single point of data entry and reduce costs. ERP systems optimize the use of organizational resources like people, equipment, materials and capital. The document outlines common business functions that ERP systems help manage more efficiently and the challenges businesses face without an integrated ERP system. It concludes by providing contact information for an ERP training and consulting company.
Making driver-based planning and budgeting workAnaplan
For Finance departments to best navigate through the twists and turns of today’s fast moving marketplace, a haphazard, once-a-year budgeting process just doesn’t cut it. To survive and thrive in this environment, this process needs to change to be more agile, align around a consistent set of resources, and attain a trusted level of accuracy.
One reliable way to transform your budgeting process is to integrate the modeling that budget contributors typically do on spreadsheets to deliver driver-based planning and budgeting. With benefits such as being able to rapidly reforecast with minimal effort, having operational capacity always aligned, and better decision making that comes from having a deeper insight into variances, it has obvious appeal. So why is it not more widely used?
View these slides from our webinar with Forrester Research and Proformative and watch the full webinar here: https://www.anaplan.com/webinars/driver-based-budgeting/
1. The document discusses the fundamental elements of a matter lifecycle and project managing a matter, including intake, assessment, selection, planning, management, and review.
2. It provides an overview of the spectrum of RFP processes from traditional to lean to informal requests, when each may be used, and the full scope of a traditional RFP process including qualifying matters, setting goals, evaluation criteria, distribution, response, evaluation, approval, and selection.
3. The document poses questions for discussion around each phase of the RFP process and considerations for setting goals, criteria, distributions, evaluations, and negotiations.
Marketing analytics tools helps you to evaluate your business objectives, and analyzing the marketing environment factors that have an impact on the organization.
This document discusses finance transformation and becoming a strategic business partner. It provides an overview of finance challenges, objectives of high-performing finance organizations, and a maturity model assessment tool. The key aspects of a successful transformation include having a clear business case, executive support, program management, addressing cultural issues, and effective communication throughout the process. The payoff is shifting from transactional to more analytical/strategic work, optimizing resources, and enhancing business competitiveness over time.
This document provides tips for management innovations and reducing expenses through various initiatives. It recommends maximizing productivity by motivating and rewarding employees while providing the proper equipment and opportunities for upgrading skills. It also suggests increasing efficiency by delegating tasks, communicating goals clearly, and incentivizing employees. Methods for reducing costs include buying used equipment, evaluating vendors, powering down unused devices, reducing paper usage, utilizing discounts, finding alternatives to unnecessary expenses, repairing rather than replacing items, and embracing technologies like telecommuting. It concludes with tips for setting optimal prices such as knowing your costs and market prices.
The document outlines plans to improve the FP&A (financial planning and analysis) function over the next year at a company. It discusses assessing the current state, including issues with strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reviews. The goals for FP&A are to continually improve processes and systems, provide better visibility and understanding of business performance and strategies, and become a more valued partner to the business. The year 1 strategy focuses on beginning to improve capabilities, creating visibility into drivers and KPIs, partnering with business leaders, and supporting strategy tracking.
This document discusses factors to consider when drafting a letter of engagement for legal clients. It emphasizes the importance of clearly outlining payment policies, including retainer amounts, billing schedules, credit card fees, and consequences for non-payment. The letter should also specify who is responsible for fees, payment timelines, and the use of electronic billing platforms. Defining work-in-progress and unbilled time policies can help law firms improve their realization rates and reduce write-offs. Selecting appropriate key performance indicators to measure utilization, realization, and other metrics can enhance a firm's profitability.
Creating and Effective Associate Development Program for Tomorrow's Leaders.
This presentation reviews the essential components of an effective program including:
- evaluation and feedback
- practice planning
- compensation
- advanced criteria
Nortica ITES is an IT enabled services company headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. It provides business process outsourcing services like customer support, collections, coding and software solutions to industries like healthcare, telecom, banking and insurance. The business plan outlines Nortica's service offerings, management structure, financial projections, and goals to reach profitability in the first year and become the market leader in Estonia within 5 years.
Advantages & Disadvantages of OutsourcingStaff Virtual
Outsource Philippines is a decision that many CEOs face. There are pros and cons of outsourcing business process work to the Philippines. Here are some advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing to the Philippines.
As an entrepreneur, your goal is to build a business that will grow for years to come. Review our presenters' slides with notes to show you how you can increase the value of your business, retain employees and evaluate growth options to achieve maximum success. Also learn about increasing the value of your business, leasing, franchising, and purchase & sale agreements.
To view our video coverage of the event, visit: http://www.welchllp.com/resource-centre/videos/events/
Overcoming roadblocks in creating a next generation accounting practiceCPA.com
Growing a leading client accounting services practice doesn’t happen overnight– it requires a well-structured business plan, highly motivated staff, best-of-breed technology solutions, and a client-centric focus.
As you embark on building an efficient practice that leverages innovative technologies and services, you may encounter some obstacles – from firm leadership and staff, as well as clients. Join us for a webinar where we will discuss how to overcome common roadblocks to achieve success.
Do you have the right tools to measure your financial performance? Do you know what elements are necessary to guide your business? Based on last year's rave reviews, Autotask's own Chief Financial Officer, Vince Zumbo, will return to lay out the fundamentals of planning and monitoring your financials for success. Vince will be aided by Autotask Product Manager Joe Rourke who will demonstrate how you can apply what you've learned by leveraging Autotask to support your business' optimal financial health. This session is full of tips, templates and insights that are used by financial professionals today and can be used by organizations of all sizes.
[Presenters: Vince Zumbo & Patrick Burns, Autotask]
“Good SHE Is Good for Business” How many times have we heard that phrase being used? And how many times have we been told that tmoney is not available, or before money is made available to show the return on investment (ROI) for SHE projects? We all know that in reality "production comes first” and without production we would have no employment. This does not mean that employers do not care about the welfare of their employees, but when finances are tight often becomes harder to justify SHE projects.
This presentation addresses some common issues facing the SHE Professional while attempting to integrate the SHE functions into the core business. This includes:
• Identifying and using core business drivers for leverage
• Establishing a vision and Strategy that is aligned with the business direction
• Selling and marketing this vision throughout the organization
• Providing leadership within the organization to create business opportunities
• Building real business metrics and communication strategies
• Measuring and communicating the results
Shared Services Pricing Models - Drive Desired Behavior with the Right Pricin...Stephen G. Lynch
The pricing model chosen for a company's shared services has a significant impact on how the business units that consume those services behave. An effective pricing model that is buyer-driven will enable competitive pricing, deliver needed services, drive innovation, and properly allocate organizational resources. In contrast, a supplier-driven model where the business units have little input into services and pricing is bureaucratic and will not promote innovation or cost leadership. Careful consideration of pricing options is needed to select a model that creates the right incentives and speaks to the needs of stakeholders.
Business relevance: ITSM which delivers outcomes - Simon Kent, SollertisSITS - The ITSM Show
To be relevant, IT should lead the business through the maze of technology choices to deliver outcomes against business strategies and objectives. This seminar explains the starting point for delivering an outcomes based approach which will help IT reengineer its approach to service provision, and the power to chart and navigate the future
The primary motivations for outsourcing are not surprising: 87 percent seek to reduce operating costs, 81 percent seek greater flexibility and scale, and 74 percent seek to standardize processes. Though outsourcing is the most favored strategies globally we still get to hear “outsourcing horror stories”. For both the parties to work harmoniously let’s look at some approaches towards outsourcing best practice.
Foresite’s Brian Hawkes explains the practical application of driver-based rolling forecasts and performance analytics for realising sales targets and avoiding forecasting becoming an unachieved prediction or statement of aspiration. He explains how up to 95% of commercial activities are inadequately analysed in business reporting and reveals how getting the right information from the right place can be a rich source of analytics for business drivers, limiters and inputs; their impact on sales trajectory and the remedial capability to close forecast gaps. Whilst this information is critical for supporting performance management and financial control, it often does not warrant the complex BI or prescriptive SFA systems that have been the traditional solutions for so long and can distract management from the real issues in their business. Lean and agile systems are robust, easily understood and essential to establishing business forecasts and insights that are both provable and evidence-based.
Outsourcing is contracting work to an outside vendor and can range from local subcontracting to offshoring work globally. When deciding to outsource, organizations consider factors like workload, expertise, costs, technology shifts, and focusing staff on core capabilities. Best practices for outsourcing include establishing clear objectives, choosing a compatible provider, considering long-term goals over short-term savings, maintaining on-site presence, and retaining responsibility while involving senior leadership. A survey found about half of major enterprises plan to increase application development and IT outsourcing in 2013, with IT, finance, and administrative processes being most common areas for future outsourcing.
The document outlines a thorough RFP process for selecting outsourcing partners, including assembling a cross-functional team, defining requirements and selection criteria, issuing an RFP, conducting site visits and customer interviews, negotiating contracts, managing the transition, and ongoing governance. Key steps include developing an evaluation scorecard, issuing an RFP to shortlisted vendors, conducting security audits of vendor sites, interviewing existing customers, negotiating contracts and service level agreements, and establishing governance processes for managing the relationship. The goal is to select the right partner through transparency and fit to optimize outsourcing through the outsourcing lifecycle.
This document discusses Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and their benefits. It defines ERP as a business management software that integrates key functions like planning, manufacturing, sales, marketing to provide a single point of data entry and reduce costs. ERP systems optimize the use of organizational resources like people, equipment, materials and capital. The document outlines common business functions that ERP systems help manage more efficiently and the challenges businesses face without an integrated ERP system. It concludes by providing contact information for an ERP training and consulting company.
Making driver-based planning and budgeting workAnaplan
For Finance departments to best navigate through the twists and turns of today’s fast moving marketplace, a haphazard, once-a-year budgeting process just doesn’t cut it. To survive and thrive in this environment, this process needs to change to be more agile, align around a consistent set of resources, and attain a trusted level of accuracy.
One reliable way to transform your budgeting process is to integrate the modeling that budget contributors typically do on spreadsheets to deliver driver-based planning and budgeting. With benefits such as being able to rapidly reforecast with minimal effort, having operational capacity always aligned, and better decision making that comes from having a deeper insight into variances, it has obvious appeal. So why is it not more widely used?
View these slides from our webinar with Forrester Research and Proformative and watch the full webinar here: https://www.anaplan.com/webinars/driver-based-budgeting/
1. The document discusses the fundamental elements of a matter lifecycle and project managing a matter, including intake, assessment, selection, planning, management, and review.
2. It provides an overview of the spectrum of RFP processes from traditional to lean to informal requests, when each may be used, and the full scope of a traditional RFP process including qualifying matters, setting goals, evaluation criteria, distribution, response, evaluation, approval, and selection.
3. The document poses questions for discussion around each phase of the RFP process and considerations for setting goals, criteria, distributions, evaluations, and negotiations.
Marketing analytics tools helps you to evaluate your business objectives, and analyzing the marketing environment factors that have an impact on the organization.
This document discusses finance transformation and becoming a strategic business partner. It provides an overview of finance challenges, objectives of high-performing finance organizations, and a maturity model assessment tool. The key aspects of a successful transformation include having a clear business case, executive support, program management, addressing cultural issues, and effective communication throughout the process. The payoff is shifting from transactional to more analytical/strategic work, optimizing resources, and enhancing business competitiveness over time.
This document provides tips for management innovations and reducing expenses through various initiatives. It recommends maximizing productivity by motivating and rewarding employees while providing the proper equipment and opportunities for upgrading skills. It also suggests increasing efficiency by delegating tasks, communicating goals clearly, and incentivizing employees. Methods for reducing costs include buying used equipment, evaluating vendors, powering down unused devices, reducing paper usage, utilizing discounts, finding alternatives to unnecessary expenses, repairing rather than replacing items, and embracing technologies like telecommuting. It concludes with tips for setting optimal prices such as knowing your costs and market prices.
The document outlines plans to improve the FP&A (financial planning and analysis) function over the next year at a company. It discusses assessing the current state, including issues with strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reviews. The goals for FP&A are to continually improve processes and systems, provide better visibility and understanding of business performance and strategies, and become a more valued partner to the business. The year 1 strategy focuses on beginning to improve capabilities, creating visibility into drivers and KPIs, partnering with business leaders, and supporting strategy tracking.
This document discusses factors to consider when drafting a letter of engagement for legal clients. It emphasizes the importance of clearly outlining payment policies, including retainer amounts, billing schedules, credit card fees, and consequences for non-payment. The letter should also specify who is responsible for fees, payment timelines, and the use of electronic billing platforms. Defining work-in-progress and unbilled time policies can help law firms improve their realization rates and reduce write-offs. Selecting appropriate key performance indicators to measure utilization, realization, and other metrics can enhance a firm's profitability.
Creating and Effective Associate Development Program for Tomorrow's Leaders.
This presentation reviews the essential components of an effective program including:
- evaluation and feedback
- practice planning
- compensation
- advanced criteria
Nortica ITES is an IT enabled services company headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. It provides business process outsourcing services like customer support, collections, coding and software solutions to industries like healthcare, telecom, banking and insurance. The business plan outlines Nortica's service offerings, management structure, financial projections, and goals to reach profitability in the first year and become the market leader in Estonia within 5 years.
Advantages & Disadvantages of OutsourcingStaff Virtual
Outsource Philippines is a decision that many CEOs face. There are pros and cons of outsourcing business process work to the Philippines. Here are some advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing to the Philippines.
As an entrepreneur, your goal is to build a business that will grow for years to come. Review our presenters' slides with notes to show you how you can increase the value of your business, retain employees and evaluate growth options to achieve maximum success. Also learn about increasing the value of your business, leasing, franchising, and purchase & sale agreements.
To view our video coverage of the event, visit: http://www.welchllp.com/resource-centre/videos/events/
Overcoming roadblocks in creating a next generation accounting practiceCPA.com
Growing a leading client accounting services practice doesn’t happen overnight– it requires a well-structured business plan, highly motivated staff, best-of-breed technology solutions, and a client-centric focus.
As you embark on building an efficient practice that leverages innovative technologies and services, you may encounter some obstacles – from firm leadership and staff, as well as clients. Join us for a webinar where we will discuss how to overcome common roadblocks to achieve success.
Do you have the right tools to measure your financial performance? Do you know what elements are necessary to guide your business? Based on last year's rave reviews, Autotask's own Chief Financial Officer, Vince Zumbo, will return to lay out the fundamentals of planning and monitoring your financials for success. Vince will be aided by Autotask Product Manager Joe Rourke who will demonstrate how you can apply what you've learned by leveraging Autotask to support your business' optimal financial health. This session is full of tips, templates and insights that are used by financial professionals today and can be used by organizations of all sizes.
[Presenters: Vince Zumbo & Patrick Burns, Autotask]
“Good SHE Is Good for Business” How many times have we heard that phrase being used? And how many times have we been told that tmoney is not available, or before money is made available to show the return on investment (ROI) for SHE projects? We all know that in reality "production comes first” and without production we would have no employment. This does not mean that employers do not care about the welfare of their employees, but when finances are tight often becomes harder to justify SHE projects.
This presentation addresses some common issues facing the SHE Professional while attempting to integrate the SHE functions into the core business. This includes:
• Identifying and using core business drivers for leverage
• Establishing a vision and Strategy that is aligned with the business direction
• Selling and marketing this vision throughout the organization
• Providing leadership within the organization to create business opportunities
• Building real business metrics and communication strategies
• Measuring and communicating the results
This document provides an overview of developing commercial acumen as a business leader. It discusses the importance of understanding key cost drivers and business relationships. Commercial acumen involves thinking like a business owner and ensuring decisions align with strategy. The document recommends leaders embed commercial skills at all levels by promoting cost ownership and transparency. It also suggests focusing commercial training on understanding full costs, procurement strategies, and designing commercial conditions. Finally, it discusses the roles of finance, line management, and commercial managers in jointly developing effective commercial management.
This presentation was made at the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (Wacif). This presentation goes over how to use financial statements and tools to make decisions.
Improving the Accuracy of Variable Sales Compensation ForecastsCallidus Software
The document discusses trends impacting sales compensation planning including changing consumer tastes, proliferation of brands and distribution channels. This requires companies to improve planning practices to better forecast variable compensation. Technology can help by automating data gathering, reducing validation work, and increasing transparency, agility and integration across planning, execution and control functions.
The document discusses improving collaboration between business and IT teams when implementing a new CRM system at Procter & Gamble Professional. It emphasizes starting with leadership alignment on goals, breaking down functional silos, focusing on business value through a phased approach, and strong project management to drive adoption. Key lessons include defining a clear business purpose, establishing guiding principles, and measuring success based on value delivered to the business.
The document discusses the importance of contractors understanding their break-even point and how to calculate it. It provides examples of annual and monthly budgets, showing how to determine break-even revenue, sales, and hours. It also discusses how changing variables like overhead costs, gross profit margins, or adding new expenses can impact break-even levels. The document recommends contractors regularly monitor their break-even and take action if they are not hitting monthly targets.
BSF is an audit, financial management, and business advisory firm that serves companies in Lebanon, the Middle East, and Africa. It provides various services including CFO consulting, audit and taxation, corporate learning in finance, and finance professional recruitment. BSF takes a three phase approach to working with clients, beginning with diagnosing a company's needs, then implementing solutions to address issues, and finally maintaining improvements over the long term. The firm aims to help companies strengthen financial reporting, control costs, increase revenue, and make better business decisions.
This document is a presentation from IBM on transformation and financial challenges in the public sector. It discusses benchmarking public sector financial management against private sector practices, and adopting leading practices such as standardized processes, electronic invoicing, and shared service centers. Case studies and lessons learned from transformation projects are also presented. The speakers are IBM consultants with experience in financial consulting, transformation, and public sector management. The presentation contains examples of metrics comparing costs, productivity and cycle times between government and private sector processes like accounts payable, travel expenses and financial close. It promotes practices like purchase order usage, electronic document processing and centralized processing centers.
Valuation Process Exploring Industry KPIS and Their ImpactMY Valuation
KPIs measure business performance and progress towards their goals through tracking the effectiveness of projects, processes, campaigns, and strategic changes.
CO2 Presentation - The Largest Profit LeversCoalmarch
Take a deep dive with master bookkeeper Dan Gordon, as he explains what tools to use, business organization strategies that include systems, procedures checklists, and more. Learn the tricks of accounting automation that will help you move the profit needle for your company.
This document provides recommendations for improving financial management and strategies for a company. It outlines goals of conducting SWOT and Porter's Five Forces analyses. Key operational areas to review include budgets and forecasts, costing, processes, cash flow, procedures, recruitment, training, stock control, software automation, reports, and analysis. The document recommends regularly reviewing these areas to maximize profits, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies. Contact information is provided for further discussion.
This document provides recommendations for improving financial management and strategies for a company. It outlines goals of conducting SWOT and Porter's Five Forces analyses. Key operational areas to review include budgets and forecasts, costing, processes, cash flow, procedures, recruitment, training, stock control, software automation, reports, and analysis. The document recommends regularly reviewing these areas to maximize profits, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies. Contact information is provided for further discussion.
Make Intelligent Decisions that Drive Business Value
Improving profitability is one of the highest priorities for business managers. The challenge is to identify and analyze profit-making activities by specific dimensions such as customers, products, channels, segments, and business units. Accurate data helps drive continuous profit improvement initiatives by helping businesses understand where and how to improve profitability.
The results can be staggering. Companies that leverage cost analytics
to focus on cost reduction can experience reductions of 3–5%, while those that focus on profitable growth and revenue initiatives can achieve 5–15% improvements. For example, a $4 billion financial services
firm added $600 million in annual profit enhancement by focusing on profitable growth and revenue rather than cost containment.
Longview Profitability Analytics leverages your company’s data to provide powerful insight into revenues, business costs, margins, and operations to help you develop profitable action plans.
Accounting & Financial Management SGVU Exam Question Sampe Paper InfographicsDistPub India
The document discusses key concepts in financial accounting and management accounting such as fixed assets, capital and revenue expenditures, financial statements, and accounting as an information system. It addresses topics like fixed asset components, bank reconciliation statements, tangible and intangible assets, cost centers, fixed asset registers, controlling fixed assets, capital versus revenue expenditures, criteria for differentiation, financial versus management accounting, accounting statements, and the role and ethics of accounting.
Partner Training: Business Plan DevelopmentBizcentralUSA
This document provides an overview of the business plan development process. It discusses the key components of a business plan, including an executive summary, company description, products/services, market analysis, management summary, and financial projections. The benefits of developing a business plan are outlined, such as obtaining funding, defining goals and strategies, and evaluating feasibility. The document then describes the steps involved in BizCentral USA's business plan writing service, which includes an initial client questionnaire, interview, research, and draft plan delivery within 10-15 business days.
Pace 2009 Effective Financial ManagementLinnea Blair
Presented at PACE 2009 Convention by Linnea Blair, Advisors On Target. Some information in this presentation is sourced from RAN ONE, Inc. Advisors On Target is a RAN ONE Business Advisor.
2. Mission Statement It is our mission and calling to provide the greatest service to the clients and organizations that we work with, while never defeating core values of respect, honesty and teamwork. We will do all we can to increase the value, relevance and profitability of all we serve.
4. Expense & Cost Reduction Types of Costs/Expenses SG&A Sum of all direct and indirect selling expenses and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Pre-paid Expenses Payments for goods or services to be received in the near future. Insurance is a good example of a prepaid expense. Flexible Expenses Expenses that are easily removed, reduced or changed month in and month out. These may be things like company catered meals etc.. Capital Expense Expense typically used to acquire new or upgrade equipment to either maintain or expand operations. Reimbursable Expenses Expenses incurred typically by employees that are paid back by the company.
5. Expense & Cost Reduction How the expenses are categorized is best left to accounting experts such as a CPA. There are many regulations that come into play when looking at expenses and how they are calculated out…. What doesn’t change is that these still affect your bottom line, and are possibly higher than they should/could be.
6. Expense & Cost Reduction Salaries/Wages/Contract Labor Loan Payments Lease Payments Equipment Etc. Transportation Airfare Car Rental Per Diem Office Supplies Supplies Postage Etc. Legal Accounting Professional Services Advertising & Promotions Licenses and Permits Taxes Vehicle Building Inventory Subscriptions Utilities Electric Gas Water Data Telephone Wireless Depreciation Maintenance Preventative Reserves Bad Debts Misc Bank fees Dues Employee benefits 401k Insurance Profit Sharing Etc. Meals and entertainment Other Insurance Premiums Office Cleaning Other Consumables On and on….
7. Expense & Cost Reduction We can analyze these expenses and see where there are areas to save and move forward with those areas that the customer wants to. We understand that even if there are significant savings somewhere, that it doesn’t mean that it will change… some relationships built over years of time are worth more than dollars and sense!
8. Operations & Efficiencies More than one way to increase bottom line. Decrease Expense by $’s Decrease Expense by % of sales (increase sales) Both (even better!) How? – Where do the expenses fall? Need Want Why did I buy/invest/agree to this again? Must be aware of your surroundings! Key to overall Operations!.
9. Operations & Efficiencies Operations Operations transform recourses or data inputs into desired goods, services, or results, and create and deliver value to the customers. Two or more connected operations constitute a process/system. Efficiency The ratio of the output to the input of any system Overcoming in-efficiency Develop the skill to avoid wasted time, effort and money… Often times savings can be found by increasing organization and finding waste in process and procedure breakdown, and providing a solutions to overcome them.
10. Operations & Efficiencies Policy/Procedure & employee handbook development. Personnel Development Interview Guides and training/ TopGrading Evaluation development and training Goal Setting Green Initiatives Paperless waste reduction Energy reduction
11. Operations & Efficiencies How to visualize Operations Visual Process Mapping Swim Lanes Visio Find areas of in-efficiencies Develop solution to increase productivity etc… Process mapping is a workflow diagram to bring forth a clearer understanding of a process or series of parallel processes. It can help in identifying what best practices we need to incorporate and find appropriate benchmarks for measuring how we can arrive at better ways of doing business The more areas you are able to look at globally the better idea you have on how much general operations goes hand in hand with so many other things.
12. Operations & Efficiencies Improve Process Define Goal Obtain current data Find root causes Brainstorm improvements Identify barriers to success Plan Implementation
14. Metrics & Reporting KPI Development Key Performance Indicators Benchmarking Accountabilities General Sales Reporting Performance Management Quadrant and Traffic Light reporting Ranking reports based on KPI’s Incentive plan development Tracking systems Coordinate current reporting with operations and other areas.
15. Calculating & Forecasting Compensation Plan development Base and Incentive Pay Commission Structure Pay for Performance Structure Sales and Profit Forecasting – Operations and Sales view (not accounting view) Analyze historical trends and account for process improvements. Targets set Weekly Monthly Quarterly Year
16. Retail Services & Scheduling Forecasting Plan Development Employee Goal Setting Optimizing payroll hours through proper scheduling Tracking and Metrics Systems Trends Analysis and Promotions.
19. Other Focus Areas Fee Structure Project Basis Mutually agreed upon quote based on needs of the business. Scope of work is agreed upon prior to start of project and invoices are ongoing based on process of project with updates given when agreed upon with customer. Sub-Contract When working in a joint venture Fee is subject to terms agreed upon by primary contracting party.
20. Professional Collarboration Everything that J&W Solutions does and can do is because of other like minded business owners that have a passion for helping other business owners – both from an individual business services solution and as a group of advisors for your business. The next few slides talk about Wealth Transformation with Team Council and what It can do for you!
23. Cash Flow Values & Goals Statement Current Financial Statement Current Financial Statement Current Financial Statement Employee Benefits Savings Investments Business H.R. Management Current Financial Statement Asset Management Asset Management Business Planning Tax/Legal Planning Values & Goals Asset Management Risk Mgmt Asset Management Recommen-dations Implemen-tations Annual Review Asset Management Asset Management Asset Management Strategic Methodology
24. The Strength of the Team Counsel Wheel Accounting Life Insurance Marketing Financial Planning Legal Services Progress Accountability Review Data Gathering Business Coaching Business Planning VALUES Implementations GOALS Cash Flow Analysis FACILITATOR Recommen- dations Property & Casualty Ins. Employee Benefits VISION Current Financial Statement H.R./ Compliance Estate Planning Long Term Projections Banking Mortgage Broker IT Business Broker
25. PREFERRED MEMBERS We are seeking exclusive representation from each self-employed professional service category in Omaha. Construction, Retail, Manufacturing, Automotive, Appliance, etc. We can better serve our client by making a referral of a trusted professional to a valued client. We can all learn from each other. We can build a networking team that will feed all members built on the philosophy of quality, efficient, and timely service resulting in happy clients who will refer others to our members.
These are the key areas of focus for J&W Solutions – There is expansion on each of these areas as you go through the powerpoint.
This is not an all inclusive list of expenses, but gives a really good view of the differences there are in business..
If you need a CPA or more information on how to structure your accounting system feel free to contact us for a referral.
Obviously depending on the industry this list could be greatly expanded. Here alone is almost 50 areas that can be a drain on your business!
Away from the customers office we can dive into the records and see where the money is going and see if there are any areas that can be reduced. This can be done either by negotiating better rates with existing vendors, or finding new vendors that can offer equal or better service for less money! There is no cost for us to see what areas you can save
When you start looking at your processes you will see waste.. That may be in time/productivity or in real $’s. Other times you can take a step back and look at the issues and break them down by putting them into catagories that make sense.. And makes the decision process easier.
Basic definitions of what Operations and efficiency is. The two go hand in hand all the time.
Many businesses do not have their procedures or policies written down. There are reasons for these and they go a long way to protect the company from liabilities.. But also need to be brief a broad because you do have to abide by them. So many company/employee liabilities have been negated because of having the proper documentation in place. Do you have a succession plan? Do you have a hiring plan or even know the skills, or attributes you are looking for in your next employee? TopGrading is a process that makes sure that you power build your team by bringing in better people than are either there..or have just left.Green Initiatives – by simply using free downloads such as “cutepdf” and “pdfsam” you can dramatically reduce your paper waste, and think of even more ways to save once you develop the right habits.
I have embedded a few visual ways to look at process mapping through swim lane and through cause and effect process of Visio. You can see how each position interacts with each other and where you can improve productivity with down time.
Having a continuous process improvement mindset will keep any business ahead and keep downtime and non-productive time to a minimum.
Many business owners have done the work for so long that they have a hard time understanding why it is that their employees just don’t get it or can’t be as productive as they were when they were doing it.. Or as they are still doing it. Being able to identify key areas to focus on, you can help to improve productivity or gauge rather or not someone is capable of making the turn. Being able to look at the numbers and see who is performing in the key areas and who is not is an absolute when dealing with performance management, accountabilities and employment rights in general. You will hear HR people all the time talk about documentation, documentation, documentation..
No matter the tenure or level of an employee they need to have incentives.. But you must know how they are motivated… believe it or not, not all are motivated by money, several are customer centric and would rather have a coke and a candy bar for a good job or a PTO day. When you can forecast goals and metrics they have something to reach for as well. The overall number 1 motivation factor for an employee is to make their boss happy.. But hey MUST know how to do that.
From having a daily sales goal to hit to having the right people there at the right time are key areas to having a successful retail operation. We can put over 20 years of retail leadership to work for you and your business from open to close.
We are so confident that we can save money just from reviewing expenses that we analyze this area for free and only get paid when we find savings. When we do we get 25% of the first years calculated expenses.. But unlike some competitors (who charge 50%) we want you to feel the savings from month 1 so we want you to pay it out over 3-6 months. * If your business is hurting and is not in the black even after we are able to find significant savings we will only charge the non-profit rate of 10%.
Same as for-profit businesses.. Just we charge 10% instead of 25% to help them keep doing what they do best even faster.
Other project areas will be quoted and mutually agreed upon prior to starting a project. Each is based on a project rate and does not constitute or break down into an hourly rate.