Business Phases

START-UP PHASE
START-UP PHASE
STEP 1:
Registrations
WCA, UIF, SARS, CIPC
STEP 2 :
Accounting
STEP 3:
Payroll
STEP 4:
Tax
EXPANSION PHASE
EXPAND PHASE
STEP 2,3,4:
STEP 5 :
C/F Forecasting
Analytics
Impact Assessment
Tax Planning
Leverage Assets
HIGH GROWTH PHASE
HIGH GROWTH PHASE
STEP 2,3,4:
STEP 5 :
-Valuation
– S Merger / Acq
/ Disposals
– D.D
– PIR
MATURE PHASE
MATURE PHASE
STEP 2,3,4:
STEP 5 :
-Valuation
– S Merger / Acq
/ Disposals
– D.D
– PIR
Business Phases
Start-ups
The business start-up phase
What Keeps Me Up At Night
- Are we registered with all statutory bodies?
- Am I compliant with the SARS? And other statutory bodies?
- I have no visibility of my financial results
- My cash flow is constantly under pressure!
- I am feeling completely overwhelmed and burnt out!
How We Can Assist
- Our staff have experience in working with most legislative bodies and supporting clients
- As a Tax Practitioner, our ease of access to SARS supports in verifying your compliance status and remedying the same
- Our cloud-based financial systems provide you with secure and easy access to your financial information
- Our Business planning tools, benchmarking, and cashflow models will help predict cash flow
- We can support you in a short to medium term planning and focus discussion (and see the wood and not the trees)
Expansion Phase
The business expansion phase
What Keeps Me Up At Night
- I do not have competent and capable staff
- How to retain my key staff
- We cannot keep up with the demand
- We have over-extended our credit facilities
- Is my business structure optimal?
How We Can Assist
- We can provide a competent short-term solution
- We evaluate incentive schemes or share-based payments
- We can facilitate a leadership discussion to consider
- Review of working capital combined with Cash flow predictions
- Balance Sheet detailed review considering leverage and partnerships
High Growth Phase
The high growth business phase
What Keeps Me Up At Night
- I have lost control!
- We have outgrown our IT systems
- We don’t have the right people
How We Can Assist
- Facilitate a strategic workshop resetting your goals and aspirations combined with short, medium and longer-term actions
- Project manage the transition to new IT systems and processes, including the effectiveness of controls
- An experienced financial / project manager to help source and transition new talent
Mature Phase
The mature business phase
What Keeps Me Up At Night
- Competition Is increasing, and we are losing market share
- How do we reinvent ourselves?
- I need to plan to exit the business
- What is my business worth? And how much tax am I in for?
How We Can Assist
- We can facilitate a strategic planning session
- We facilitate and project manage multiple service providers to focus on your specific needs
- We support negotiations and purchase and sale agreements, including project managing the process
- We prepare valuations based on a range of variables to provide you with an indication of the business’s net worth. We extend this to the potential tax liability