Business Advisory Services
DWCA is, first and foremost, a business advisory firm. We don’t want you to become dependent on us; we teach the necessary steps and provide the tools to move your business forward. DWCA strives to build relationships by showing you what’s working and what’s not, where to make changes, and how to increase profitability.
Let’s talk! Every client is different. Every client has unique challenges. Every client has individual goals. DWCA works with you to help influence direction, growth and success. By analyzing past results and discovering future expectations, DWCA helps set a strategic course of action that defines the next chapter of your story.
DWCA focuses on helping small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) achieve superior performance because we believe they are the centre of worldwide commerce. We offer personalized service and attention to detail in an effort to build long term relationships with our clients. Our goal is simple; we strive to show businesses how to successfully attain their goals.
Show Me the Money: Resolve Cash Flow Problems
Are you making money but have no cash?
Do you know what drives cash in your business?
Are you having difficulty financing your capital expenditures?
Do you have the right financial leverage?
Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business; it’s the primary indicator of business health. A business can sustain itself for a short time without sales or profits but without cash, it can’t survive. Cash needs to be carefully managed and put to work.
DWCA can help by providing the following services:
- Provide cash flow forecasts
- Identify cash flow cycles within your business
- Review your financial leverage
- Create a plan of action to improve cash flow
- Strengthen systems and policies
- Help implement a plan that ensures your objectives are fully achieved
Show Me How: Improve the Bottom Line
Are you making enough profit?
Are your margins declining?
Are your costs outpacing sales?
Are you searching for new ways to improve business performance?
Is your business more profitable than industry averages?
You
can improve your company’s performance and profit by analyzing the
numbers that matter. No business can refuse the opportunity to add
more profit to the bottom line. This can be achieved by changing the
way things are done; even small changes can make a big difference.
DWCA can help by providing the following services:
- Review the past performance of your business to examine overall trends
- Run a set of ‘what if…’ scenarios to demonstrate how small changes in key areas of your business can produce major changes
- Apply the four ways to grow your business
- Create a project plan to keep you on track
- Help implement a plan that ensures your objectives are fully achieved
Show Me the Way: Attain Business and Personal Goals
Is the competition catching up or sailing past you?
Do you have a game plan to take your business into the future?
Will you have enough money to retire?
Are you weighed down by the responsibilities of the business?
Are you seeing a proper return for your efforts?
Is work taking a toll on your health?
Are you not getting the support you deserve?
Do you know where you want to be but don’t know how to get there?
Having a focus that’s too narrow can restrict the growth of your business. If you’re unable to see the ‘big picture’, you could miss valuable opportunities or be unprepared for external threats. A major advantage to owning your own business is having the ability to set the business strategy to achieve your personal objectives. Before that can happen, you must determine what you want from your business in terms of financial returns and quality of life.
DWCA can help by providing the following services:
- Assess your business environment for opportunities and threats
- Assess your internal business processes for strengths and weaknesses
- Develop alternative strategic options
- Develop a strategic plan to deliver the unique vision you have for your business
- Conduct a thorough review of your current financial position
- Conduct a review of your role within the business
- Work with you to review your quality of life
- Assess the alignment between you and your business partners
- Create an overall plan
- Help implement a plan that ensures your objectives are fully achieved
Show Me the Golden Years: Succession and Business Transition Planning
How much money will you need to retire?
Are you relying on the sale of your business to fund your retirement?
When do you plan to sell your business and for how much?
Is your business ready for sale?
Do you know how to sell your business?
Can your team operate without you?
Are your children prepared to successfully take over the business?
One of the most important decisions you will ever make is when to exit your business. The sale will likely be the most important deal of your life because it will no doubt fund your retirement. Years of hard work building the business should not be thrown away because of poor preparation for its sale.
DWCA can help by providing the following services:
- Create detailed financial projections for you and your business
- Develop a succession plan that deals with business, family and financial issues
- Develop a growth plan for you business so that it achieves peak value at the time of transition and reduces the business reliance on you
- Develop the managerial pool
- Review the tax situation
- Provide transaction and completion advice
- Help implement a plan that ensures your objectives are fully achieved
Show Me Who: Player Development
Have ‘bad hires’ hurt your business?
Do you know what qualities you need in employees?
Do you take the time to develop effective hiring advertisements?
Are new hires properly trained?
Often times, businesses are short staffed when searching for new employees. This time crunch does not allow for effective hiring practices which ultimately can negatively affect your business. Allowing an experienced third party to handle all job posting advertising, interviews and training will provide you with the time now and in the future to concentrate on running your business.
DWCA can help by providing the following services:
- Develop Human Resources discreet employee searches
- Create effective job postings that will attract the most qualified people
- Conduct interviews
- Conduct training
- Create long term team-building practices for your company
DWCA is a member of RAN ONE. As part of an international network of firms operating in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe, we have the strength and resources of a large, global organization while still maintaining our ability to serve the local market.
