You need processes that will drive your business towards growth, keeping you on track and ensuring successful transitions in the life cycle of your business. We enable you to prepare your business for growth, succession, or sale.
Whether you need support with strategic action planning, financial analysis, structuring, succession planning or something else, we have the expertise and experience to advise, leaving you to focus on running your business.
Strategic planning done well enables you to focus the attention on a short list of critical indicators of current and future performance. The interrelationship between your finances, satisfying your customers, having the right systems to achieve this and ongoing innovation is critical to your business’ success.
How should your business appear to your customers?
What processes must you excel at?
How will you sustain ability to change and improve?
How should you appear to your shareholders?
Ensuring that your business is controlled and operating effectively, including holding people to account. Utilising a revolving and evolving series of processes for overviewing your business.
Defining governance for your business;
Improving Board processes annually;
Board Functions;
Continuing improvement.
We will help you determine and understand the market value of your business currently, and plot a path with you to improve your profitability, cashflow and business value. We will help you understand what needs to change in your business financial targets.
Improve your business through value adding advice.
Help you understand what needs to change in your business.
All your key people can be taught how to understand your numbers.
At Safer Business Growth, we’ve built our offerings on what we believe are the four fundamentals of a successful business. It is these fundamentals that will help you work toward a stable business foundation and leave you with a healthier work-life balance.
By using this methodology, we will help you to identify YOUR Action Plan with a small number of interlinked financial and non-financial objectives related to YOUR strategic priorities. We will help you stayed focused quarterly, or beyond, to drive your business performance to the level you want, providing complex information at a glance.
How should you appear to your shareholders?
Stronger, clearer income streams,
Improved efficiency, less waste,
Improved Financial health of your business,
Better Return on Investment,
More saleable business.
How you want your customers to perceive you.
Excellent service producing client satisfaction,
Provider of quality products that meet their needs,
Value for money.
What business processes you must you excel.
Providing excellent service to clients,
Understanding our clients,
Reducing cycle time, streamlining your processes,
Providing rapid response,
Ensuring various products suit your client.
How you will sustain ability to change and improve.
Regularly reviewing, improving your business model,
Constantly improve existing products,
Introduce new products with greater capabilities,
Better Return on Investment,
Innovate, improve, learn – make improvements within set timeframes.
Safer Business Growth is a Brisbane based SME with over 30 years experience in accounting, auditing, assurance, governance and business strategy.
Whether you want to prepare your business for growth, succession, or sale, we have a wealth of knowledge to help you reach your goals.
We are experienced business advisors, working with you, to keep you ahead in your industry and ensure successful transitions from each stage in the life cycle of your business.
We are part of a multi-disciplinary network of skilled professionals providing Sales, Marketing, HR, Legal, Website, IT and other skills as you require them.
I am passionate about helping businesses create strong cashflow, good profits and increased value through safer systems that produce consistent outcomes for customers.
I help businesses make money after one zoom session using our 7 levers…Let’s do some “what-if’s” on your business numbers, and plans - see how your opportunities can play out.
Bachelor of Economics (University of Queensland - 1976)
Bachelor of Commerce (University of Queensland - 1980)
Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA - 1981)
Company Auditor (ASIC - 1981)
Graduate Diploma of Management (Central Queensland University - 1994)
Lead Auditor Integrated Management Systems - (Exemplar Global - 2023)