Business Diagnostic Reports

The diagnostic report provides a comprehensive financial ‘health check’. It identifies key business drivers, results and performance measures. And by turning the numbers into knowledge, it helps you to improve the financial performance of your business and improve the bottom line. It will provide a whole new perspective on the business.

All you need is two periods of Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet data.

The diagnostic report can be used for business planning, for submissions to Banks or to standardise communication within the business and between the business and its accountants and financiers. Use it to compare financial indicators for multiple periods or across business entities, divisions or geographic regions. Use it to clearly and simply highlight all cash movements, to analyse cash flows and improve your management of working capital.

Advisory service

The diagnostic report is comprehensive and will help you to better understand the financial issues that confront the business and to understand the key drivers of your business. Our advisory service supplements the diagnostic report by applying the strategic financial management expertise of a highly experienced business analyst and financial consultant. Consultant profiles. Together, we can stress test the business financials, uncover the cause of current difficulties, plot future directions, develop projections, discover solutions and potentially avert disasters.

Financial expertise in a box

Perhaps you prefer the DIY approach? If so, you can buy the software and produce the diagnostic report(s) yourself. This enables you to take advantage of its dynamic analysis capabilities. And then, for example, to:

• Dynamically make projections for the future based on key drivers for the next year(s).
• Do what-if and goal-seeking analyses.
• Track the financial effect of business strategies.
• Create benchmarks for performance measurement against peers or competitors.
• Create customised key performance indicators.
• Export reports into Microsoft applications.
• Standardise way in which your business diagnoses the numbers.
• Educate and up-skill your staff and improve the value-add of their output.

Imagine being able to ask theoretical questions like:

• What’s the impact of reducing debtor days to 60?
• What’s the impact of reducing days receivable from 70 to 60?
• What if sales improve by 10% and what’s the impact on cash flow?
• How can cash flow be improved from -$325,856 to breakeven?

…and having the answers available in a seconds.