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- How to treble the value of your management accounts
- 10 ways to increase turnover
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- Have FDs missed their CEO chance?
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Past events
SP Testimonials
- Alex Alverez, Director, RioBlush UK Limited
- Alex Mayhook-Walker, Partner, Citrus Partners LLP
- Andy Lucey, Freight Investor Services
- Caroline Fox, Joint MD, Twin Training and Travel
- Caroline Fox, Joint MD, Twin Training and Travel
- Dan Ross, Founder, Intersection Media
- Danny Faughnan, CEO, Metropolis Digital Media
- David Ellerton, Managing Director, Virbac UK LTD
- David Houston, Trinity Hospice
- Dean Cook, Finance Director, Medicals Direct
- Dean Cook, Finance Director, Medicals Direct
- Derek Barr, Chief Executive, Fairfield Halls
- Dr Alan Wyn-Davies MA (Oxon), Chairman DFx Technology
- Frances Parker, Manager of the Handy Vans Service, The Royal British Legion
- George Abrahams, GA Group
- Guy Morley, Managing Director, Sound and Music
- John Newbiggin, Director of Corporate Affairs, Channel 4
- John Newbiggin, Director of Corporate Affairs, Channel 4
- Liad Shababo, Money Gaming Corporation
- Marcus Adams, Managing Partner, John Thompson & Partners LLP
- Margaret MacDonald, Chief Executive Officer, Action on Pre-eclampsia
- Marie Eichler, Appointments Bi-Language
- Mark Fairlie, CEO, Meridian Delta
- Matthieu Rosset, Directeur, Lorentz, Deschamps & Associes (Paris)
- Medical Practitioner, Yorkshire
- Miles Berkeley, Chairman, Hilton Head plc
- Miles Rackowe, Chairman and founder, Powertron
- Miles Rackowe, Chairman and founder, Powertron
- Peter Curtis, CEO, Forest Healthcare
- Philip Kenny, Former CEO, Firestone Diamonds plc
- Rob Mason, ING Corporate Finance
- Simon Fry, Fenland Laundries Limited
- Simon Southwood, FD of Scholium Group PLC
- Wendy Pollecoff, Executive Director, FHU
- Will West, CEO, CellCentric
Case Studies
- Acting as interim FD
- Arranging funding for the growth of a marketing services business
- Assisting a management buy out
- Assisting with due diligence and post-merger integration for a market research firm
- Assisting with sale then re-purchase of a power supplies business!
- Comprehensive support in less than three days a week
- Correcting MI, reducing the cost base, so as to sell the business
- Creating cross border systems necessary to raise equity and sell a division
- Creating systems, forecasts and accounts for a mortgage broker
- Data business uses our financial model and improves its value 7-fold
- Developing forecasts to raise funds for an automotive engineer
- From the brink of insolvency to £45m turnover and sale of a food production company
- IFRS accounts for AIM-quoted fuel cell company operating abroad
- IFRS conversion and compliance for a media entertainment company
- Improving internal controls of a recruitment firm
- Improving processes in the NHS
- Improving systems then raising equity at an online retailer
- Interim role to cover maternity leave for fashion retail brand
- Investigating financial concerns and bringing stability
- Leading a construction company from breakeven to sale
- Maintaining positive cash flows of an architecture and design agency
- Management accounts and FSA returns managed for a financial derivatives business
- Managing cashflow for a design-&-build contractor
- Managing profitability for architects
- Margin analysis to support loan application of a promotional materials company
- Obtaining a listing of shares using a part-time FD
- Obtaining finance for growth and acquisitions
- Obtaining working capital and acquisition finance for a car body shop, then exit
- Planning for an equity trading platform
- Preparing a business plan so as to raise £2.5m for a broadcaster
- Preparing a retailer for sale
- Preparing monthly accounts more quickly and more cheaply
- Providing relevant reliable information to a modernised Inn of Court
- Providing technical input when auditors have a conflict of interest
- Providing working capital for a transport business
- Raising equity for an internet gaming company
- Re-engineering a charity’s processes and saving £650k
- Recovering £420k by debt insurance
- Recovering import duty and insuring debts of a wholesaler
- Relieving cash pressure and restoring profitability to a restaurant
- Replacing a full-time FD with part-time and improving MI
- Revising procedures so as to comply with IFRS reporting requirements
- Setting up systems for fine-food mail-order client
- Speeding up MI as interim FD of international retailer
- Supporting growth then an IT review and streamlining processes for a pharmaceutical firm
- Technical support for IFRS accounting at an IT services firm
- Timely and accurate information to funders of a prominent drinks business
- Train client staff in IFRS accounts preparation
- Transforming architects from company to LLP
- Turnaround of a waste management business
- Upgrading the systems of a distributor
- Using our talent pool to replace a one-man band
- VC-backed buy-out of a family-run building products firm
- Why insightful information is vital to a transaction