Budgeting & Forecasting

About this service

With the unpredictable nature of business, budgeting and forecasts, particularly for profit and loss and cash flow, are valuable financial management tools. For forecasts to be truly useful they must be grounded in reality and make sense.

Even early stage businesses can benefit from budgeting and forecasting. Assisting with projections, including the calculation of outcomes based on particular sensitivities such as cost increases or revenue decline, forecasting can help keep business on track.

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Here’s how we can help with business budgeting and forecasts

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Being an accountability partner

We can support you as a business advisor who’s part of your team. By checking in either formally at regular meetings or via a quick phone catch up we’ll support your business development in accordance with your strategic and business plans

Feel more in control and know where you stand with clear, balanced cash flow forecasts. Working with you, we’ll analyse potential opportunities or challenges which could arise.

Our team can produce valuable profit and loss forecasts that help you understand how your business is performing at different levels of trading. We can review these together at regular check ins by phone or in person.

Know what you can do financially with your business by following a clear budget for your fixed and variable expenses. We’ll help you analyse opportunities for reducing costs and highlight potential risks.

By benchmarking your business against other similar businesses we can make recommendations about where efficiencies can be improved, costs reduced, measure employee productivity, assess the impact of changes, and map a pathway for business growth.

Budgeting and forecasting are business management tools that bring greater rigour to the way you operate your business. They even help solve business challenges. As another layer of scaffolding that supports your business’ evolution, you’ll gain more confidence and certainty that you’re running the business, not the other way around.

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Success Stories
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Commercial Construction
Construction
Challenge
Client had future work substantially in excess of their approved QBCC Maximum Revenue requiring client to turn away work.

How we solved it
We reviewed their business structure and implemented a restructure of operations

Outcomes achieved
QBCC Maximum Revenue increased threefold to enable contracts to proceed, boosting business income and profit

Services provided
Strategy, QBCC Annual Reporting, Structuring, Financial Reporting
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Hotel Operator
Property

Challenge
Establish a finance function for new hotel integrating bookings, cafe/restaurant, in-room entertainment systems to enable streamlined reporting and payment systems


How we solved it
We looked at a range of front-of-house booking systems, CRM and POS systems, as well as various back of house accounting software. We helped the client settle on their preferred providers and assisted with implementation and integration of systems and various merchant facilities.


Outcomes achieved
Streamlined, integrated, data rich systems enabling efficient reporting and minimise administrative costs.


Services provided
Process and systems review, systems implementation and training

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Golf and country club
Property

Challenge
Poor profitability across business


How we solved it
We implemented a strategic review of business to identify goals and actions. We discovered a legacy accounting system which was slow, difficult to use and provided no oversight of where or why profitability was impacted. We implemented a software upgrade to improve oversight, reporting and efficiency, enabling a reduction in administration staff. We also identified several opportunities to diversify income streams and boost business value. We developed a strategic plan for the next 3-5 years to roll-out these income streams and business units.


Outcomes achieved
Improved profitability, reporting, reduced costs and implemented change in operations. Business owners clarified strategic direction and action plan to increase long-term business value


Services provided
Strategic planning, cost review, processes and systems review.

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Construction
Construction

Challenge
Client operated as a services trade to construction industry. The business had poor profitability and cash flow.


How we solved it
The Accorti team reviewed the internal business systems and processes. Working together, we updated the accounting systems to enable real-time job and cash flow reporting, allowing the business owner to understand the business’ financial position at any time. To help manage cash flow better, we established a payment collection process that was enabled to support various payment methods.


Outcomes achieved
Business owner was equipped to see where they were losing money, understand the reasons why and implement remedial action leading to cost reduction and timely payment collection.


Services provided
Bookkeeping, business processes and systems review, financial reporting, business advice

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Caravan Park Operation
Tourism

Challenge
Business owner operates several caravan parks located in remote areas and was seeking a way to monitor management and operational performance because they were not physically based at business sites.


How we solved it
We identified and implemented strict controls and delegated authority and duties between site management and business owner. Business accounting function relocated to the Accorti office, enabling the business owner line of sight across business.


Outcomes achieved
Improved financial reporting, improved cash control, reduced business risk, improved management performance.


Services provided
Outsourced accounts, financial reporting, risk management

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Commercial Property Investor
Construction

Challenge
Client was experiencing financial distress due to failure of a business, putting related commercial property portfolio at risk.


How we solved it
Worked with client and other advisors to quarantine assets from legacy issues.


Outcomes achieved
Protected significant property holding from potential claims, enabled repayment of bank debt in full and secured long-term tenants providing income stream for owners in retirement.


Services provided
Strategy, business advice, risk management

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Gold Coast

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