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Every New Customer Gets A FREE Business Benchmarking Service!

Sutherland Black's business growth services focus on helping business owners re-establish the initial vision they had for their business and take it from where it is to where they would like it to be. Our business growth clients are encouraged to work towards realising their personal objectives in the process of achieving business growth.

Of course, every business is unique and so your dedicated partner contact will work with each business owner to identify and tailor the services we provide to suit your individual requirements.

Our "No Surprises" fixed investment policy means that you know exactly what our services will cost you.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking is a powerful tool for analysing the relative performance of your business against similar businesses. It tells you what you are doing well, compared with similar businesses. And it tells you what you are doing less well. It highlights your strengths and weaknesses.

Sutherland Black will provide you with a report with figures extracted from your year end accounts. Your business will be compared to around 100 metrics across 19 key areas, including: productivity, profitability, sales effectiveness, asset management, leverage and return on investment.

Each report will be complete with colour graphs, intelligent commentary, recommendations and sensitivity calculations showing, for example, the impact on profits and cashflow of improving performance to match that of the upper quartile in the industry. And of course will carry our ‘In Plain English’ policy so that you receive genuinely useful and meaningful information that will allow you the dynamic and confident decision making capability you want.

For new customers Sutherland Black are offering a free Short Benchmarking Report with every set of final accounts that we produce.

Call us on 01506 260 036 or click here for more details.

Boardview

Effective board and strategy meetings

Every single one of the UK’s most successful and profitable businesses hold regular board meetings to discuss strategy. So, Sutherland Black would like to invite you to benefit from our exciting BoardView service.

Here’s how it works….

We’ll gladly come to any of your key business meetings as a resource to help you make the very best use of your time.

And you can use Sutherland Black in any way you want - from silent observer to adjudicator, technical adviser to independent sounding board, chairman to minute taker, or even as the facilitator for brainstorming sessions. We can even prepare the agenda if you’d find that helpful. The choice of what you want us to do is entirely yours. And whatever role you want Sutherland Black to play, our input will be covered by an agreed fixed fee.

In our experience, when smaller businesses - even one man band businesses - if they start holding board meetings they immediately start thinking like, acting like, and achieving like their bigger and more successful counterparts. So if you’re not already in the habit of holding regular board meetings, it could just be what you need to really give your results a boost.

Some of the benefits you will get from BoardView include:

• Meetings that rise above office politics to focus on the really important issues, such as how to drive the business on to ever-greater success
• Meetings that are disciplined and kept on track - so that everyone attending is able to get the very most from them
• An outsider’s perspective - which, by challenging preconceived ideas about how things are done in the industry or business, helps to identify breakthrough ideas and strategies that have never been tried before
• External accountability - so that all the good ideas generated in the meetings are turned into agreed action plans, effective action and impressive results

Business Startup

Setting out on a new business venture is an exciting time: finding premises, sourcing suppliers, developing sales leads.

However, there are a number of vital steps which must be taken before any business can take off:

• Writing a useful and meaningful business plan
• Choosing whether to be incorporated as a limited company or be self-employed
• Obtaining finance
• Making the right tax decisions
• Informing the authorities

Dealing with these can be time-consuming and potentially costly. We will quickly profile your business idea and advise you, freeing up your time to get on with the real work of developing the business.

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