Business Planning

Business planning is essential towards a financially healthy company. Having someone to help you build out your financial goals is often an eye-opening experience for many small business owners. Understanding where your money is going and where it is coming from in an easy-to-understand format can help you save time and money.

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Budgeting

Understanding money is one of the most important things a business owner needs. By creating a budget, we can help set expectations of what costs should be incurred and to what extent. This will make sure you are not paying more for things which you do not need.

Budgeting can also help with scaling your business. What does it look like to bring on another crew? How many jobs do I need to complete to make my business profitable?

Revenue and Expense Reviews

Helping you identify efficient ways to spend your money and where you are spending too much money.

Marketing

How is your money being spent and is it making you money?

Materials and Labor

What is your cost of goods sold and is there a primary driver we can look into?

Additional Revenue Opportunities

Where does your money come from? Is there a concentration risk and how do we diversify?

Insurance and Admin

Are there expenses we can reduce? Let’s take a deep dive on your current income statement.

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Financial Goals

Developing unbiased goals and a clear path to completion.

By setting a clear path for how to reach your goals, it makes decisions a lot easier to make. Understanding what the next steps are can also help with budgeting and making sure you are moving in an efficient direction. Many business owners get caught in doing too many things, focusing in on your goal should be your primary objective and only further analysis should allow for deviations.