Industries
Businesses We Commonly Work With
More than 31 years of working with Australian SMEs has given us experience across a wide range of industries — and an understanding that financial pressure looks different from one business to another.
We commonly work with owner-managed small and medium businesses where the director is closely involved in the everyday operation of the company.
These include businesses in:
- Construction and building trades
- Manufacturing and engineering
- Transport and logistics
- Automotive and mechanical services
- Hospitality and accommodation
- Retail
- Professional and technical services
- Maintenance and field services
- Landscaping and related trades
- Other specialist and owner-managed businesses
The industries are different, but many of the financial questions are remarkably similar.
- Is the business actually profitable?
- Is that profit becoming cash?
- Are jobs being priced correctly?
- Are customers paying quickly enough?
- Are creditors being managed properly?
- Are taxation and employee obligations being met as they arise?
- Is the business carrying too much finance?
- Is the director taking more from the business than it can afford?
- Is growth creating cash — or consuming it?
We Don’t Diagnose a Business by Its Industry
Industry experience helps enormously.
It helps us understand how the business makes money, where margins can disappear, how working capital behaves and which questions should be asked.
But we don’t assume that because one construction company has a particular problem, the next construction company will have the same one.
We start with the individual business. We establish the financial truth.
Then we use our experience to help understand what that truth is telling us.
Talk to us
You don’t need to diagnose the problem before speaking to us. Tell us what is happening, tell us what is worrying you, and show us the numbers. We will start by helping you understand what questions need to be answered.