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Different businesses require different perspectives. Our reviews are designed to help owners understand where opportunities exist, prioritise improvements and strengthen long-term business quality.
One methodology
Many firms create a new methodology for every service they add. Over time that produces inconsistency: different documents, different language, different standards.
Aston Finch operates one framework. Each review simply concentrates on a different part of it. That means the work is recognisably the same whichever review you commission, and it is why the reviews complement one another rather than repeating one another.
Every business is an ecosystem. Improving one area often improves another, and understanding those relationships is usually where the most useful findings come from.
The four areas
Whichever review you commission, the business is looked at through these four interconnected areas. The emphasis changes. The framework does not.
Four interconnected areas, working towards one outcome: long-term business value.
The reviews
Each is fixed in scope and agreed before any work begins. You are welcome to approach us about whichever is most relevant to your circumstances; there is no required starting point and no sequence you have to follow.
Our flagship review
Understanding how prepared a business is for future succession, investment or sale, and what would need to change first.
Fixed fee: £995.
About the Exit Readiness ReviewReviewing how effectively the business attracts opportunities, converts enquiries and develops long-term customer relationships.
Scope and fee are agreed following an initial discussion.
About the Commercial Performance ReviewAssessing whether the business online reflects the quality of the business in reality, and where confidence is being lost.
Scope and fee are agreed following an initial discussion.
About the Digital Presence ReviewConsidering whether financial information is supporting stronger commercial decisions, and where profit is being lost.
Scope and fee are agreed following an initial discussion.
About the Financial Performance ReviewWho they are for
Typically businesses turning over approximately £250,000 to £2 million, where the owner is closely involved in how the business runs.
A review is usually worth considering when an owner:
No immediate plan is required. A business that is well prepared is usually a better business to own in the meantime.
Consistency
Afterwards
Many reviews identify practical improvements. Some clients prefer to implement these internally. Others ask us to provide additional support.
Where appropriate, Aston Finch can assist with delivering agreed recommendations on a separately scoped basis. It follows a review rather than preceding one, and no recommendation exists because we could deliver it.
That is a reasonable place to start. A short, confidential discussion is usually enough to establish which review would be useful, or whether one would be useful at all.