As a business owner, everything you do should be about building value in your business. The more valuable your business, the more profit you will make while you own it, and when you come to sell the price tag will be higher. But there is much more to building value than simply increasing sales. At Secantor, we specialise in helping business owners to build value in their business. Our experienced executives can help you to do this across a variety of aspects of your business. Here are some of the areas we can assist you:

Achieving Consistent Growth

We’ll help you plan and forecast your growth so it is targeted in the right areas. Our financial modelling will reveal what investment is required to achieve your growth forecast. We’ll help you set targets and monitor performance, holding you and your team to account in achieving your goals.

Improving Profits

We’ll extract profitability information from your accounting & IT systems and help you analyse and interpret it so you can see gross profit margin by customer, product/service, market/industry, region, salesperson etc. In this way we can target the most profitable sales and improve poor performers.

Strengthening the Management Team

This area is often under-estimated. A strong accountable management team is an essential part of a successful business. Having a reliable team of effective managers to take care of the day-to-day running of your business frees you up to focus on strategic matters. When it comes to selling your business, potential buyers will want comfort that the business runs without you so a strong management team will add value. Our executives have decades of experience in strengthening management teams and can help you identify and build an effective team.

Optimising Operational Efficiency

Inefficient business operations waste money and can lose customers. We’ll help you analyse and optimise your processes and systems, manage your staff more effectively, and monitor & improve your business performance. This will build considerable value in your business.

Well Managed Working Capital

Businesses with tight cashflow do not perform optimally. We’ll review your finances and implement improvements to increase cash in the business. This will allow you to spend more time investing in the growth of the business, as well as giving you the funds to achieve this.

Increasing Net Assets

Your net assets are the book value of your business, so improving them increases the value of your business. But it also makes your business healthier and demonstrates strength that will be appealing to customers, suppliers and funders. We’ll help you understand the drivers behind your net assets and actively work with you to improve them.

Sound Investment

Investing in plant & machinery, people, intellectual property, business development & marketing, company acquisition etc has the potential to greatly increase the value of your business. But equally the wrong decision could have the opposite effect. One of the most important roles we play in our client’s businesses is acting as a sounding board and trusted advisor to help them make informed strategic decisions. We’ll identify and interpret the necessary data and undertake internal and external analysis to guide you to the right decision – one based on evidence, not feelings.

Securing Contract Terms

This gives your business stability of income and allows you to plan and forecast with greater reliability. When it comes to selling your business, contracts with good length on them will add value to your business. We can provide you with commercial support to prepare for tenders and negotiate contracts.

Building value in your business is a multifaceted, continual process that should involve improvements to every aspect of your company. Secantor’s team of multi-discipline business experts include commercially experienced CFOs (Chief Financial Officers), FDs (Finance Directors), Non-Executive Directors and Management Accountants who can provide you with the support you need on a part time flexible basis to build maximum value in your business. If you’d like to find out more, please book a video call with one of our team.