For businesses requiring an experienced leader and manager who can make a real difference, engaging a flexible FD could be the solution.

There are significant advantages to seeking an flexible solution to cover a shortage in management resource or to address a gap in expertise during a period of transition or peak workload or for a specific project.

During any period of change, every company will require skills, knowledge and expertise that do not already exist within the business. Without these skills, the organisation’s sustainability, growth and sometimes survival could be at risk.

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Planning has consistently proven to increase the likelihood that you will be successful in reaching your aims. 

Planning is about identifying and communicating your vision for the future and deciding the strategy and steps that you need to take to get there.  Planning is all about identifying and realising opportunities for growth.  Growth enables a business thrive and to thrive, a business will be competing either directly and indirectly with other businesses.   

Business planning is a business management process and tool.  Like any other management process, its primary purpose is to help you achieve the success that you are working hard to achieve.  A good process will help produce quality output.  Knowing what success is - the target and a plan of the actions you intend to take to get there (and against which progress can be measured, reviewed and adjusted) significantly increases the probability that you will achieve your goals.

Planning is not easy and can be time-consuming.  However, done properly you have a significantly greater chance of arriving where you want to be, in good health and at the time you want to be there.

Your business plan is best developed with your management team and will help you and your team agree on the future direction of the business and the allocation of time and money needed.  It should be a key business communication tool both inside and outside your business.

Most plans require financial investment.  Any  investor will want ot understand why funds are required and to know what the expected financial returns will be in order that they can satisfy themselves that they will receive a return on their investment - and crucially, the return of the funds invested.

Having experienced financial expertise, to develop robust financial plans, financial plans that demonstrate that the opportunities fo growth  that have been identifed and the steps that will be taken will produce the profitability and cash that are required to fund the investment needed and provide suitable financial returns for investors.

Business planning provides a framework that guides decision making – with a focus on the future.

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