You probably don’t need more ideas. You need to know where to focus.
Running a business gives you plenty to think about.
Should you increase prices?
Do you need more sales?
Are costs too high?
Could you improve your margins?
Are customers taking too long to pay?
Is too much cash tied up somewhere in the business?
The difficulty isn’t usually coming up with things you could change.
It’s understanding which change could make the biggest difference to your business.
That’s where we start.
You probably don’t need more ideas. You need to know where to focus.
AHBS combines compliance, cloud accounting and ongoing support to help business owners better understand what’s happening inside the business throughout the year.
Local accounting support designed for growing businesses.
Many business owners don’t struggle because of effort.
They struggle because staying on top of the numbers becomes harder as the business grows.
Tax becomes reactive.
Bookkeeping falls behind.
Cash flow becomes less predictable.
AHBS helps businesses across Derby stay organised, informed and financially in control throughout the year — not just at year-end.
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Where you are → Where to focus → What to do next
01
WHERE YOU ARE
Before the session, we’ll review your financial information so we can start with the numbers behind your business.
During the session we’ll look at your current position, talk about what’s happening in the business and understand what you want to achieve.
This isn’t about drowning you in ratios or accounting jargon.
It’s about making sense of the numbers that actually matter.
02
WHERE TO FOCUS
We’ll identify where opportunities for improvement may exist and explore which deserve your attention.
That could involve sales, pricing, margins, costs, cash collection or another area highlighted by your numbers.
But we’re not going to give you a list of twenty things to work on.
The aim is to identify what matters most.
03
WHAT TO DO NEXT
Once we’ve agreed the priority, we’ll explore the options available to you and turn the conversation into a practical plan.
You’ll leave knowing what you’re trying to achieve, where you’re going to focus and what happens next.
What will you leave with?
Not another report to put in a drawer.
Not a generic list of business tips.
And not somebody telling you how to run your business.
You’ll leave with:
- a clearer understanding of your current financial position
- an identified opportunity for improvement
- a clear priority
- a defined goal
- options for how you could approach it
- an agreed course of action
- a practical action plan
Ultimately, we want you to be able to answer three questions:
Where are we now?
Where should we focus?
What are we going to do next?
You know your business. We bring another perspective.
We’re accountants. We’re not here to tell you how to run your business.
You understand your customers, your industry and the day-to-day realities of your business better than we do.
What we bring is an independent perspective, an understanding of your numbers and a structured process for turning those numbers into a useful business conversation.
We’ll ask questions.
We’ll challenge assumptions where appropriate.
We’ll help quantify the potential impact of different opportunities.
And we’ll help you turn the conversation into something practical.
Your business. Your decisions. Supported by better financial clarity.
What happens?
01
BEFORE THE SESSION
We’ll ask you for some information about your business and what you want to achieve. We’ll also review the financial information available to us before we meet.
02
THE NUMBERS
We’ll use your actual business figures to understand your current position and identify where potential opportunities may exist.
03
THE CONVERSATION
We’ll work through what matters, agree where to focus and explore practical ways of approaching it.
04
THE PLAN
We’ll turn the conversation into clear actions so you leave knowing what happens next.
Who is it for?
The Cashflow & Profit Improvement Session is designed for owner-managed businesses where the owner feels there should be more to show for all the work going into the business.
It could be useful if:
- sales are growing but profit isn’t following
- you’re making a profit but constantly short of cash
- margins have been squeezed
- costs have crept upwards
- you’re considering increasing prices
- the business is busy but doesn’t feel financially in control
- you want to improve performance but aren’t sure where to start
- you simply want an independent pair of eyes on the numbers