Learn to Grow Your Business by

Mastering
Business Acumen

Why is Financial Acumen a challenge?

Many people start a business because they have a technical skill, or a passion for an idea. They get started, and keep the business afloat through the early years of challenges, and reach a stage where they may want to:

o Scale the business,

o Bring in investment capital, or

o Make some significant decisions about hiring, buying new equipment, launching a new line of business, etc…

Having no formal background in accounting or financial management, they don’t speak the language of finance, which makes it hard to:

o Read and analyse their own accounts to support their decision making

o Talk to their accountant

o Talk to investors and banks

o Build a financially sound business plan.

The normal solutions people try include:

o DIY – reading, Google searches, and YouTube – normally not getting very far.

o Short courses on Finance for non-Financials – often forgotten in a few weeks.

o Long courses such as MBA, CIMA – time consuming and expensive, and seldom directly relevant.

Mastering Business Acumen is an alternative approach that solves all of these problems.

It is an 8-week live online coaching programme, which covers everything you need to know about finance to run your business professionally.

Learn the language of Finance, and the secrets of making any business more profitable, more successful, and more sustainable by identifying the leverage points where a small amount of effort can have big results.

Feel comfortable making decisions, talking to banks, investors, managers, and colleagues without "impostor syndrome" because you simply understand your own business, the financial jargon, and the business principles that drive business success.

Test Your

Business Acumen

Take a 5-minute test of your financial acumen, free, right now. 4 questions on your confidence level, and 10 to test your financial know-how. Immediate, confidential results.

Give me the test!

How we make learning easy and permanent:

Visible Value:

a graphic business game

The visual nature of this unique business game helps people to rapidly grasp all the fundamentals of business finance. The terms are readily learnt because they are presented in a living business that creates emotional involvement, brings out competitiveness, and makes the learning process fun. And they stick for years afterwards!

Theory & Exercises

The technical side of business is best learnt through explanation, followed by practical hands-on exercises where you can see the impact of each idea on a business.

Then we discuss it, and how it is relevant in your particular business today.

Minimal calculation, maximum learning about the financial cause-and-effect of business decisions.

Application Homework

Take what you have learnt, and use it in your own business. Gather information, and draw conclusions. Find opportunities for increasing profit, growing faster, or controlling cash flow. Then bring your findings back to discuss and validate, ready to take action.

1 to 1 coaching

This is an opportunity for you to discuss any aspect of your business, and get a financial take on it, as well as an unbiased 3rd party view of the situation.

Business plans, thorns in the flesh, possibilities you are considering, the layout of your accounts, anything is fair game for discussion and thinking through together.

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Want to know more?

If you would like to discuss the programme, and assess whether it is a good fit for you, your partners or staff, please book a call with me through my calendar.

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It's Time To

Work With Us If...

you want to understand how the finances of your business can show you the way to increase profits, control your cash, and grow your business. Or if...