Transforming CompaniesInto ValuableAcquisition Targets!
Grow the Intrinsic Value of your Business,
while Lowering Risk.
Our Promise:
2x Company Value
10x Transition Options
Our Process Will Deliver...
Improved Quality
Lower Risk
Higher Value
Better Options
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What they say about us...
The Value Builder Assessment
In just 13 minutes, your company’s Value Builder Score is calculated. But what is the raw score telling you? The Value Builder Assessment provides the context to understand what the score reveals about your company’s current state.
The Value Builder Assessment is delivered in a two-hour session, either in person or via Zoom. A written report of findings and next actions is included…a roadmap to begin the process of creating a more valuable company.
Best results are achieved by engaging a Certified Value Builder™ to lead the company through the in-depth, 12-month Value Builder Process(optional).
Financial Performance Accelerator™
The most common weakness in growing companies is financial infrastructure. Flaws manifest in inaccurate financial statements, no budgets or forecasts, lack of visibility into negative cash flow cycles…
…all of which adversely impact the owner’s ability to take appropriate action. Access to growth capital is severely impaired in companies which lack these basic building blocks.
Accretive’s Financial Performance Accelerator™ is a 90-day consulting engagement led by Jeff Farren. We will:
- Create a framework of Financial Performance Management to drive improved profitability, cash flow, and accountability of all team members.
- Coach and mentor the controller/bookkeeper to meet the reporting needs of the owner and all stakeholders, including timely and accurate financial statements.
- Reduce and minimize risk, which will lower the cost of capital.
- Prepare company for outside financing at the lowest interest rate possible.
- Other company objectives as mutually agreed.
Deliverables:
- Bi-weekly consultations with the business owner, to include other staff as needed.
- Budget and Rolling Cash Flow Forecast, with Budget-to-Actual reports.
- Value Growth Assessment Report, with action items to lower risk and improve the 8 drivers of company value.
- Value Growth Scenario Planning Tool, with multiple 'what if' scenarios.
The FPA will improve financial health and lower company specific risk. This unique process leads to improved company value and increased financial options, including access to capital.
The Accretive
Process™
Most business owners don’t know and can’t measure the number one factor limiting the value of their business…company specific risk. We have a proven process to improve the business quality from the inside out.
The result is a less risky company with much higher value. Our quantifiable process helps companies double or even triple in value without increasing revenue.
The Accretive Process™ begins with a one-day management retreat, where a team lead by a Certified Value Growth Advisor will conduct a complete assessment of your company’s current state in all eight functional areas: Planning, Leadership, Sales, Marketing, People, Operations, Legal, and Finance. We utilize the VOP Engine, the most sophisticated value creation software ever developed.
The Accretive Process™ has three distinct phases:
Phase 1: Protect
The VOP Assessment Report is delivered following the management retreat. The current company state is compared to best in class quality standards, complete with current quality metrics and risk scores in over 160 subcategories of the eight functional areas described above. Specific action items are identified to protect the viability of the company. These action items could be described as highest priority “must do’s” and can represent “low hanging fruit”.
Phase 2: Enhance
A strategic planning session launches Phase 2 of The Accretive Process™. Using the VOP Assessment Report as our guide, we develop a vision of the company’s future state and the specific steps to make it a reality. The resulting strategic plan is a veritable Implementation Playbook. Following this playbook, the company enhances its quality, performance, and value.
Phase 3: Scale
Not every company, nor every owner, will choose this steepest path. For the bold, a multi-year process is available to “step on the gas”, exploit the strong foundation that has been laid in Phase 1 and Phase 2, and maximize the value of your company. A Certified Value Growth Advisor and Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor will assist you as we Execute the plan, Prepare for and then Transition the company according the multiple options we have created.
Do you know what is holding you back?
Most business owners don’t know and can’t measure the number one factor limiting the value of their business…company specific risk.
The Intrinsic Value of your business (and every financial asset) is the net present value of future cash flows. To understand the distinction between Intrinsic Value and Transaction Value keep reading.
Is your business cash flow:
• Sustainable?
• Predictable?
• Transferable?
The Accretive Process identifies and measures the qualitative factors of the company which could impact its future cash flows, favorably or unfavorably. The eight functional areas of every company are broken down into 160 subcategories and are measured against best in class standards. Our unique, research-based algorithm converts quality and risk elements into a risk factor…the company specific risk premium. This calculated risk premium is then blended to create the discount rate used to compute Intrinsic Value.
These quality and risk factors are within your control…you simply need some education.
Any functional area of your company that is underdeveloped could put a lid on profitability and future cash flows, and therefore represents risk. Furthermore, these company specific risks are controllable. Management can reduce this risk by improving the business quality.
The first step in this process is identifying these limiting factors, so that an improvement plan can be implemented. The Accretive Process delivers the playbook to execute that improvement plan.
Intrinsic Value
| Transaction Value
| Company Specific Risk To calculate Intrinsic Value, the future cash flows are present valued using a discount rate. The required return for Private Company Equity is
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We have a proven process to improve the business quality from the inside out. The result is a less risky company with much higher value.
Our Promise of 2x Company Value may seem like a lofty goal, or maybe even a pipe dream. You may be thinking that it is impossible. In fact, many companies achieve 3x increase in company value after implementing our proven process.
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