Business Advisory

• Acquisitions

There may be a time when organic growth is not enough to grow the business, or a client is looking to enter a new business area. Hamilton Reiss will provide advice to ensure that a suitable business is found, which fits the goals of the client and then will carry out a due diligence process to fully understand the business which is to be acquired.

• Business Modelling

To gain a better control and understanding of their own business, Hamilton Reiss provides their business modelling expertise to their clients.

This can be utilised in business forecasting and controlling key areas such as cash flow management. The business model built for our clients can also be used for investment appraisal when the business is to be expanded

• Business Planning

We help our clients determine the right strategic priorities for profitable growth and offer support and practical solutions into achieving these growth objectives.

This could encompass such an area as ensuring that the specific goals have been stated and the rate of progress towards these are monitored. This goal setting for example then can be combined into a business plan to assist in an application for loan and investment finance.

Once a plan has been developed we will help ensure that the clients’ internal controls are in place to keep the business on track to reach its specific goals.

• Due Diligence

If a client wants to acquire another business or investment asset, it will need to thoroughly understand the current and projected performance of the asset to be required. Hamilton Reiss provides a commercial due diligence report, which involves a review of both the financial and non financial aspects of the company.

• Structuring

In a period in the cycle in the growth of a company or during the wider economic business cycle. There may be a time when a company needs to review its own business structure.

This covers a range of areas from reviewing the correct debt to equity ratio for the business as a whole to streamlining the legal entities used by the business group.

There will also be instances when it is time to dispose of an individual business line and the most effective solution from a valuation and tax perspective needs to be implemented.
Hamilton Reiss provides these Structuring services to its clients. Even for its smaller clients having the correct business structure is imperative.

• Virtual FD

Rather than an old fashioned accountant or a Financial Controller all businesses require a forward thinking strategic level Financial Director. For many smaller businesses it is simply not cost effective to employ a full time FD.

Hamilton Reiss is able to provide a Virtual FD service able to provide this higher level business strategy service at a fraction of the cost.

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