What HTL can support you and your business

Grow Profits

Reviewing your contribution margins and understanding your profit margins particularly in light of such significant changes in costing over recent years is an imperative
Reviewing and managing inventory to ensure optimisation of stock holding
Alternatively or additionally it may be reviewing cost centres or service offerings and understanding what returns are being made and where is imperative to ensuring your business has the best strategies in place
Reviewing price shift sensitivities and potential impacts on yields
Understanding fixed costs v variable cost impacts on growth and opportunities in addition to ensuring best procurement practices and delivering strong cost management
HTL will look to work with your team and partners to ensure best reporting is available to ensure this information is readily available and accurate to ensure best ongoing business decisions.
Developing KPIs and measurements utilised within the business are SMART and driving best outcomes. Remembering less is often more when we are considering the number of KPIs
We work with HR and Management to ensure incentive schemes are delivering best outcomes, often guiding and recommending appropriate incentive schemes and performance measures to drive performance required within your business

Strategic Planning and growth

HTL works with your management team and prepares a 5 year roadmap identifying your Why, What your strategic imperatives are, the strategic activities that are How you will deliver and Where it will take you
We also work annually with you management team on your Annual business plan revisiting the historical performance, identifying what is changing over the next year in line with the road map and the more detailed How delivering the budget that will present the where
HTL collaborates with all areas of management to ensure the plan is a cross collaboration incorporating the whole of business.
We work with HR or management in ensuring employee performance reviews and management is incorporated in the planning.
HTL works with the team in developing their strategic imperatives.
Growth imperatives can be by way of acquisition ????

Work with your lending provider and if and when required by management support in reviewing alternate providers
Monitor and work to improve you payment collection opportunities
Support in preparation of grant funding application and provide details of and funding we are aware of in your industry
HTL can work with you to source funding through options including business angels, venture capital and private equity

Exit / succession planning

Work with each owner / key stakeholder to identify their exit goals.
Work with all parties to identify and plan each owners type of exit strategy dependent upon goals, timing, business structure to ensure best over arching outcome for your business.
Work with you to transition your personal brand, your individual skill set and eventually whole of you out of the business to deliver a smooth exit for you from the business
If selling your business we can work closely with you to ensure the business is commercially reporting in a transparent manner all components of your business to ensure best opportunity for best possible financial outcomes. Too often people leave it until they want to sell before looking at this resulting in an inability to provide the information required and achieve best possible outcomes.
In addition to having the financial information we will assist position you to guide you in ensuring risks are mitigated allowing you to achieve the best possible multiplier for your business
We will also work with you and you external taxation accountant to ensure we deliver the best use of taxation opportunities in using any available CGT exemptions.

Tax Effectiveness, legal and compliance

HTL partners closely with you to support you in your dealings with your external taxation accountant.
We partner with the you to ensure taxation planning takes a priority for your business and with access to accurate management reporting we can provide a more transparent position on the impact of same.
We can be the conduit with the external accountant across many areas including changes required in structure, acquisition / sale impacts, employment benefits, superannuation, ATO debt management, FBT, CGT, GST etc.
HTL can as required support you in meetings and dealings with legal and other technical experts.
Support you in ensuring your business has appropriate policies and procedures to ensure ongoing compliance.
HTL can establish internal audit processes to mitigate many risks
HTL can assist you in any substantive procurement activities including negotiation and again working with management and all relevant external parties. This could include acquisitions of new products, businesses, occupancy etc

WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS WORTH TODAY?

WHAT IS YOUR END GOAL?

WHAT DRIVERS CAN BE MOVED AND HOW DO WE MOVE THOSE ?

WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT NORMALISED SUSTAINABLE PROFIT

WHAT IS THE BUSINESS CAPITALISATION RATE RELEVANT FOR YOUR BUSINESS - MULTIPLIER

We will work with your team to build an acknowledgment risk is a fundamental component of your business.
The imperative will be to focus on the management of risk not removal of it
We will lead a review of the current risks within the business, analyse, evaluate and prepare mitigation planning and monitoring
Work with your team to help identify potential compliance hazards due to changes in laws and regulations that could create risk for your business

We look to integrate finance into every aspect of the business ensuring that it underpins all key decision in simple day to day business rather than acts as an independent division.
We establish standing clean and concise management variance reporting against budget and PY with revised estimates for month management/board meetings.
We ensure that the correct reporting is provided to relevant recipients. Providing the appropriate data to the correct stakeholders.
We believe drawing out the important information from all the data available and providing to the appropriate stakeholders is imperative for exceptional decision making. Clean and concise reporting is our goal.
We work closely with all aspects of the business and can often provide great assistance in operational system reviews
Digital marketing has become a significant function in many business and accordingly we work closely with marketing teams to understand their returns on social media, goggle advertising and SEO.
HTL often process maps the end to end journey of our clients customers looking for ways to ensure best outcomes for all transactions. A great experience is the goal for the customers to capitalise on best sales however we need to ensure all controls are also in play