We work with business leaders to help them understand how all facets of their business are interconnected, with financial success being the result. We dissect financial, operational, and other data to provide useful information.
Are you
A business owner who:
Is too busy focusing on running your operations that you can’t get your arms around your financials?
Knows you have a terrific product or service, but doesn’t have the financial acumen to do more than balance a checkbook?
Can’t figure out why your company is not making more money?
Feels alone on an island without even a volleyball as a companion?
Runs the company based on gut-instinct with no data to support your decisions?
Recognizes that your company is growing but you’re not sure if the growth is sustainable?
Is exhausted from working all day, but stays awake at night worried about paying your employees and vendors?
BALLAST GROUP
Can help you with:
An education about and understanding of the three basic financial statements.
An awareness of how numbers convert to knowledge and how the various facets of business are inter-related.
A financial collaborator and confidential sounding board for your business decisions.
Objective guidance, free from the emotional weight that comes with running your own business.
A blueprint for your journey and how it will be funded.
Control of your company and a guide to take you beyond your horizon.
A peaceful night’s sleep.
Our Services
Effective Planning and Decision-Making:
Reporting packages
Contribution margin analysis
Financial cause and effect ratios
Cash flow management
Cash flow forecasting
Days to customer profitability
Cost structure analysis
Business Alignment:
Sales personnel efficacy
Unit-level economics
Gross margin analysis
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Advisory and coaching
Growth Strategy:
Obtaining financing
Sustainable growth rate
Strategic planning
Budgets, forecasts and business models
Functional alignment
Compensation plans
Take Control:
Early warning indicators
Financial close process
Turn-around strategies
Communication bridge
Maintain Control:
Policies & procedures
Internal controls
Anti-fraud controls
