A valuable business is one that is well structured, organised and run, and which makes the least demand upon its owners and has the easiest access to capital. It is the culmination of many good decisions made by an owner who is in control.Throughout our years of interacting with business owners we have seen that many of you feel like you are no longer in control of your business. You often say that you started out running your business and now it’s running you. Improper understanding of financial and operational performance leads to not knowing how to make those good decisions, to feeling insecure and uncertain and, often, not a little embarrassed. This in turn results in indecision, lack of focus and inaction or, worse, the wrong action.The most common problems we come across are:- not understanding your customers’, products’ or business units’ profitability;- not having regular reporting that links your operational activity to your financial performance;- not being able to predict your financial performance from the events that happen on the ground and from the decisions you are taking.Each of these problems will negatively impact the value of your business through 4 out of 8 of the key drivers of value: Financial performance, Cash flow, Growth, Resilience. These issues can even affect you personally due to inability to plan, to spend time with your family or to enjoy the process of running your business. Do you have this problem? Are you as in control as you would like? Are you maximizing the value of this important asset?We’ve developed a specialty in this area. Our expertise is in providing ‘decision support’ to owners like you to turn losses into profits, to focus on the right products and customers and to give investors the confidence to provide the capital you need. We have a proven method of achieving this by following a 3-step process:1) We build a bespoke Financial Forecasting Model. This gives you deep insight into the probable outcomes of various decisions and the sensitivities around those outcomes. We use simulation software to identify and test those sensitivities.2) We combine outputs from your various systems to create digestible, understandable reporting and prediction of financial and operational performance, especially in those sensitive areas.3) We analyse and rebuild historical reporting to join past, present and future into a full and illuminating picture.We have been doing this for 23 years and every client we’ve worked with has seen significant growth in the value of their business. How about you?