Business Consulting
Business skills are required to make a company stay on the path of sustainable growth, but these skills are developed only from rigorous professional training and accumulated experience over the years. To ensure business success, we provide support for clients to gain an understanding of data, appreciate the importance of data-driven business decisions, develop Key Performance Indicators to measure performance in the business’s Critical Success Factors.
I will help clients with creating a process to accept, appreciate and deal with uncertainties using appropriate methodologies, we develop the process of identifying risks and planning adequate risk response strategies. Our business consulting services focus on diagnosing business problems, even if they were not known to exist, and cater for the need of organizations whose problems are already known. We offer high quality, specialized and personalized services, timely professional advice based on quantitative and qualitative reasoning in the areas of:
Business Development
To find direction and navigate the turbulence of take-off, new businesses require some support. I will bridge the gap by:
- Drawing up business plans
- Connecting businesses with service providers
- Researching and advising on funding opportunities
Bookkeeping and Accounting Services
Accounting is the process of keeping information about financial transactions in the appropriate form to make meaningful use of them. This process starts from keeping source documents and recording information thereon in the prescribed form to make it easy to process the information in a timely manner. I will work with clients to:
- Set up a functional accounting system based on the designed manual (including training on the use of accounting books).
- Design appropriate internal management reporting system
- Keep necessary accounting books by deploying clients preferred accounting software
- Prepare bank reconciliation statement
- Manage accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and general ledger
- Prepare andreview financial reports
- Analyze financial statements, using relevant accounting ratios, to determine quality of earnings and strength of assets
- Conduct special investigations: bank charges, interest charges, stock reconciliation, cash reconciliation, accounts receivables reconciliation, accounts payables reconciliation.
Financial Management
While access to needed resources is critical for businesses to take off, managing financial resources efficiently will determine how far a business can continue in business. Fiscal responsibility is critical for business survival. Keeping this in mind, I work with our clients undertake financial management activities such as:
- Cash flow planning
- Working capital management
- Business valuation
- Budgeting and budget management
- Planning: working with units and departments to develop their budget estimates
- Management: Checking budget with actual results, and analyzing results to localize variances to make prompt corrections
Strategic Management
The business environment is driven by intense competition. Businesses struggle among themselves to gain greater market share in their business sector and to make a good spread that will guarantee continuity, thereby protecting the primary business objective of maximizing shareholders wealth. To secure the future in this way demands conducting necessary corporate appraisals and the developing appropriate strategies matching the result of the analysis. I will do the following:
- Corporate appraisals such as:
- SWOT analysis
- Gap analysis
- Product/Market analysis
- Value chain analysis
- Competition analysis
- Supply chain analysis
- Operations management, which may include:
- Recommending changes where necessary, develop change management process and supervise the implementation of the recommended changes
- Strengthening governance through:
- Setting up internal control and administrative procedure
- Reviewing business systems and structures
- Supporting system audit and process improvement
- Strategy development which comes out of the various analysis conducted