Shrewd

If a picture tells a thousand words - then just imagine the view if you could join up all the numbers in your business?

Welcome to the BowShot Shrewd Group TM.

Launched in September 2008, the BowShot Shrewd Group now meets monthly at the Royal Exeter Hotel in Bournemouth. We're delighted to have recruited an expert facilitator, Sue Baker, to lead this dynamic new group.

Sue Baker is a qualified Accountant with an exceptional breadth of experience - from Finance Director of a fast-track PLC to CEO of her own manufacturing business. She currently runs Clarity Business Financials, which supports entrepreneurs in understanding and fully exploiting their business numbers.

“If you arrange the numbers in the right way, a picture emerges that really supports key decision making and great management of the business. I now want to develop this expertise within the BowShot community.” Sue Baker, BowShot Shrewd Group Leader

This programme, twelve months in development, is way beyond "finance for non-finance managers". It includes a thorough self-assessment process and an in depth look at:

how to understand and use key cash flow modelling tools
how to implement at a glance "traffic light" reporting
building value into the business - not just profits
understanding the dynamic relationships between your revenues, your costs, what you own and what you owe.

If you would like to experience a BowShot Shrewd Group in action, please call 0845 130 2636 or let us have your details and we'll contact you.

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The BowShot Shrewd Group - Transform your balance sheet

Group details

The BowShot Shrewd Group comprises Managing Directors of small and medium sized businesses who see the potential of working together to improve their grasp of financial dynamics and their skill in controlling them.

Why join?

Many entrepreneurs become successful through careful cash management and a basic understanding of profit generation. But then comes "the wall".

Increasing complexity calls for a deeper understanding of the financial dynamics of your business.....and more skill in managing them.

What will I learn?

Which key levers control your profitability?
What financial information do you need to navigate the path ahead?
Where can you find practical answers which work

What next?

If you own your own business, now's the time to own your numbers. Join the BowShot Shrewd Group.

Syllabus

Month 1: Self assessment process; sharing of results; tips & techniques to get quick wins; commitment to action plan

Month 2. Monthly Reporting; to get monthly reporting designed to really help with managing the business; how to make sure your book keeper gives you what you need; use of trends/ratios/comparisions; how to interpret the results

Self assessment link : accuracy & formats

Month 3. Decision making; the correct evaluation tools to make decisions e.g. Investment in new person/machinery etc ; a big change to the way business is done e.g. Outsourcing ; any other kind of strategic change

Self assessment link : analysis

Month 4. Planning; forward looking financial management; roadmap to strategic goals; KPI’s; forecasting; breakeven analysis; what if analysis

Self assessment link : planning

Month 5. Cash Management: techniques to maximise cash; types of finance facilities available and how to decide what’s best; how to manage your lenders
Self assessment link : Stability

Month 6. Sharing of improvements & action plans for next 6 mths; specialist speaker on subject chosen from list by group, e.g.

Tax management; combining what’s best for business with what’s best for owner manager personally
Acquisitions; how to value a business; negotiation tips & the due diligence process
More in depth how to raise funds for investment
How to prepare your business for a future trade sale

Month 7-12. Working confidentially in the group with individual members' financials