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27 May 2012
Business Consultancy
When you’re running a business, it’s easy to become distracted by the day to day management and lose sight of the big picture.
Are you looking for less involvement, do you need to expand or do you simply want to generate a greater profit margin? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then contact us now to discover how we can help you determine and achieve clear business goals.
Over the years, we’ve helped many business owners to work on their business, not in their business, and we can help you do the same. It’s amazing what a fresh pair of eyes can bring to the process and we ensure that our advice is always well judged, unbiased and meets your objectives.
Starting Your Own Business
Starting your own business is both an exciting and challenging prospect that is usually, swiftly followed by one key question: where do I start? The friendly and knowledgeable Cognitor team are here to guide you every step of the way, from advice on the type of business and company registration, through to ongoing management services such as bookkeeping, payroll processing, VAT services, accounts preparation and completion of tax returns.
Growing Your Business
Achieving healthy growth within the company is normally the key objective of any business owner, but how do you go about ensuring that this not only happens, but happens in a sustainable and manageable way? Development of your business is a key part in ensuring its long term success. This may be achieved in a number of ways e.g. through diversification into new territories, introducing new technologies or creating new strategic partnerships. The important part is that we help you find the right strategy for you that fits your business profile and your objectives as a business owner.
Acquisitions
Many businesses will look at acquiring another company at some point in their development journey and there are lots of considerations to take into account before embarking on this important step. The Cognitor team can help steer you through the course, advising on all aspects; from determining whether your business is ready to acquire through to identification and evaluation of target companies, raising finance to make the acquisition and advising on the practicalities of absorbing the business into your own, such as staffing issues and management of legalities.
Raising Finance
Whether you are starting your own business or have been in business for a while, raising finance can be tricky at the best of times. Take advantage of our wealth of experience in helping clients to determine how and when to pitch for financial backing and more importantly, how to secure it. Our experience brings excellent contacts from a broad range of financial institutions from major banks to Venture Capitalists and smaller specialist financial funders, enabling us to help you find the right fit for your requirements.
Exit Planning
At Cognitor, we understand that everyone has different objectives for owning a business and that the issue of how and when to leave can be very personal. For some, the exit strategy has been known and understood from the outset, but for the majority, how and when to leave your business is an issue that may never have been fully considered. Having the benefit of independent advice can be immensely useful in ensuring that your exit is smooth, timely and meets all the objectives that you originally set out to achieve. Cognitor can not only help you to determine your exit strategy but can also help create the plan that delivers it, so that you maximise your income in retirement and save tax. For many a successful exit from their business is achieved by a profitable sale to a third party or to the handing over of the company to a nominated successor. Cognitor can help prepare the financial information necessary for both of these scenarios as well as determining and identifying potential recipients.
What our clients say about us
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Julie Feeney View testimonialCognitor have some amazing tax strategies. It took me a while to understand, but I saved over £100,000 in tax. Graham knows his stuff – if you’re after a bit more than your regular accountant, Cognitor are definitely worth a call
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Pete Longman View testimonialThey have provided the structure and facilities to enable us to implement real change to the way that we work. Cognitor are a valuable asset to our company.
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Martyn Davies View testimonialI know I made the right decision – their support and advice has been invaluable in helping me to strengthen my business.
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Dale Horton View testimonialAt last we have found a vibrant, energetic, and forward looking team who are willing to help move my business to the next level.
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Fran Connop View testimonialOver the years the Cognitor team have been invaluable in offering objective advice and observations about our business and have provided the structure and facilities to enable us to implement real change to the way that we work.
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Allan Watts View testimonialThe staff are friendly, professional and nothing is ever too much trouble
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Andrew Kennedy View testimonialWe have always been interested in “outside the box” thinking and have been open to their ideas, some of which have been implemented to our great benefit.
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