Budgeting and Forecasting

Budgets

An annual budget and cash-flow forecast is an essential part of your business. This process will help you to identify the levels that you need to achieve to be profitable, what your target margins should be and what the cash flow needs of your business will be.

Many start-up businesses are basically profitable but simply run out of cash as a result of poor management of the working capital cycle. Good budgeting and forecasting can help you to sidestep these problems, and this is a process in which we have valuable experience.

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Management Information

Good quality management information is essential for the smooth running of any business, but unfortunately many small business do not have the time or the resources to commit in this area. This is where Saratoga can help.

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Consulting Services

With all the different hardware, software and technologies available today it's very difficult to know which ones are the best and are worth implementing.

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Introduction to Business Solutions

Business Solutions

Accounting and finance is a complex and specialised area. Our aim is to manage and support your accounting function, allowing you to concentrate on your core business. We firmly believe that minimising these distractions will increase your efficiency and profitability, as well as ensuring that you have all the information that you require to fulfil your statutory obligations.

Our main aim is to aid you with your financial systems, management information and the strategic planning process, as we believe that these are the areas that will add the greatest value to your business. We are also happy to help with basic bookkeeping issues and technical advice/procedures where required.

 

Strategic planning

Strategic planning We believe firmly in the essentiality of a strong strategic planning process. It is proven that businesses that start out with a firm strategic plan and implement and review that plan continually have a much higher success rate than those who drift along without. We are able to draw on our own experiences of the strategic process to help you draw up and develop a meaningful and achievable plan that will give your business clear direction, and may also help you to identify and raise the finances needed for your business.

The strategic planning process is one that identifies the economic and market factors that will influence the success of your business. It helps you to identify who your competition is and how you will deal with them, to identify what the potential strengths and weaknesses of your business are and how you will manage them.

The strategic plan is essentially a long-term tool that acts as a living document, growing and refining in line with your business.

VAR Management Suite

actnow

ActNow! is a full-featured management and accounting solution for value added resellers. ActNow! is packed full of time-saving features that will make you and your staff more efficient.

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Accounts Health Check

Many sole traders and small businesses are so busy carrying out their daily business that they simply do not have the time to work on credit control, timely and efficient invoicing and chasing customers for unpaid bills. Furthermore, many small businesses cannot afford someone to manage these functions full-time.

We are therefore able to provide short-term assistance in these areas to ensure that your invoicing and credit systems are efficient, and to highlight weaknesses that could be crippling your cash-flow and hence your business.

Realtime Surveys

SurveyNow

SurveyNOW! is a revolutionary new electronic tool designed to measure customer satisfaction in real time. If you survey, you need SurveyNOW!

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Accounts Health Check