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The strategic work most SME accountants don't touch.","\u003Csvg viewBox=\"0 0 480 360\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.w3.org\u002F2000\u002Fsvg\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Illustration\">\u003Crect width=\"480\" height=\"360\" fill=\"var(--ink)\">\u003C\u002Frect>\u003Ccircle cx=\"400\" cy=\"70\" r=\"150\" fill=\"color-mix(in oklab, var(--accent) 14%, transparent)\">\u003C\u002Fcircle>\u003Cpath d=\"M240 75l95 30v75c0 60-45 90-95 110-50-20-95-50-95-110v-75z\" fill=\"var(--ink-mid)\" stroke=\"var(--bg)\" stroke-width=\"2\">\u003C\u002Fpath>\u003Ccircle cx=\"240\" cy=\"190\" r=\"55\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"rgba(245,241,232,0.32)\" stroke-width=\"2\">\u003C\u002Fcircle>\u003Ccircle cx=\"240\" cy=\"190\" r=\"35\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"rgba(245,241,232,0.32)\" stroke-width=\"2\">\u003C\u002Fcircle>\u003Ccircle cx=\"240\" cy=\"190\" r=\"15\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"rgba(245,241,232,0.32)\" stroke-width=\"2\">\u003C\u002Fcircle>\u003Cline x1=\"240\" y1=\"190\" x2=\"285\" y2=\"155\" stroke=\"var(--accent)\" stroke-width=\"3\" stroke-linecap=\"round\">\u003C\u002Fline>\u003Ccircle cx=\"285\" cy=\"155\" r=\"7\" fill=\"var(--accent)\">\u003C\u002Fcircle>\u003C\u002Fsvg>","light",[],"blocks.hero",{"id":352,"eyebrow":353,"heading":354,"body":49,"gridBody":355,"layout":356,"__component":357},14360,"Overview","What do business and risk advisory services cover?","\u003Cdiv>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Business and risk advisory services are project engagements that sit outside the monthly compliance cycle: building a risk register and control framework, modelling scenarios, planning business continuity, valuing shares for a transaction or a tax event, and redesigning how the finance function itself works.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Most accounting firms stop at compliance. Books closed, tax filed, statutory accounts lodged: see you next year. For SMEs facing scale, regulation, capital raises or transactions, that's not enough. The work that determines whether a business survives a bad quarter, defends a valuation, or passes regulator scrutiny is strategic and risk-oriented, and it's the work we live for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Our business and risk advisory scope covers strategic financial advisory (forecasting, scenario modelling, capital allocation), enterprise risk management (risk register, control framework, business continuity), valuation (for fundraising, M&A or internal share schemes), and operational consultancy (process re-engineering, finance-function design, system selection).\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Engagement is typically project-based: a six-week sprint to build a risk register, a three-month engagement to design controls, a one-off valuation for a tax event. Some clients retain us on an ongoing advisory cadence; others use us for specific decisions and return when the next big question lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Where our advisory work touches on regulated activities (investment advice, audit) we coordinate with appropriately-licensed partners, but the substantive analysis, modelling and recommendations are ours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">A risk register is only useful when it is specific enough to argue with. Each entry names the risk, scores likelihood and impact on a fixed scale, names one accountable owner (a person, not a department), states the control already in place, then scores the residual risk after that control. The register is reviewed quarterly and anything scored high with no dated mitigation goes to the board as an exception. Registers that list \"cyber attack\" and \"key person risk\" with no owner and no score are decoration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">The internal controls that matter most in a business under 100 people are unglamorous and cheap:\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cul style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin:0 0 18px 22px;display:grid;gap:8px;\">\n          \u003Cli>Dual authorisation on payments above a stated threshold, with the threshold written down.\u003C\u002Fli>\n          \u003Cli>Bank payee changes verified by a call to a number you already held, not one on the email.\u003C\u002Fli>\n          \u003Cli>Supplier onboarding separated from payment approval, so one person cannot create and pay a vendor.\u003C\u002Fli>\n          \u003Cli>Monthly reconciliation reviewed by someone other than the preparer.\u003C\u002Fli>\n          \u003Cli>Access rights removed on the leaver checklist, on the leaving date.\u003C\u002Fli>\n          \u003Cli>A payroll change log reviewed against the pay run before it is approved.\u003C\u002Fli>\n        \u003C\u002Ful>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Business continuity planning turns on two numbers per critical process: how long you can be down (recovery time) and how much data you can afford to lose (recovery point). Once those are agreed, most of the plan writes itself, because the numbers decide whether a nightly backup is adequate or whether you need a warm standby. The test is not the document. It is whether someone who is not the finance director can run the payroll in the week the finance director is unreachable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Valuation work is usually driven by an event with a deadline. A share valuation agreed with \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Forganisations\u002Fhm-revenue-customs\">HMRC\u003C\u002Fa> for an EMI option grant holds for a limited window, so the grants have to be made inside it or the exercise starts again. A transaction valuation needs a defensible method (earnings multiple, discounted cash flow, or net asset, and usually more than one as a cross-check) with the assumptions stated so a buyer can test them rather than dismiss them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">A worked example of scenario modelling. A business with £4.2m of revenue and a 21 percent net margin models three cases: base, a 15 percent revenue fall, and the loss of its largest customer at 18 percent of revenue. The third case turns net margin negative in month two, not month five, because two thirds of the cost base is fixed inside a quarter. That single finding changes the contract renewal strategy and the notice periods on two supplier agreements. The model is worth more than the forecast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">This work assumes reliable numbers underneath it, which is why it pairs with \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Fmanagement-accounts\">monthly management accounts\u003C\u002Fa> and, where the engagement is continuous rather than project-based, with \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Fcfo\">fractional CFO services\u003C\u002Fa>. Control frameworks built here feed directly into \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Faudit-assurance\">audit and SOC readiness work\u003C\u002Fa>, and governance documentation into \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Fcompany-secretary\">company secretarial support\u003C\u002Fa>. Most of our valuation and option-scheme work comes from \u003Ca href=\"\u002Findustries\u002Fstartups\">VC-backed startups\u003C\u002Fa>. Retainer and project fee bands are on the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fpricing\">fixed-fee pricing\u003C\u002Fa> page. Advisory projects are quoted separately from the retained work in our \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\">accounting and tax services directory\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>","grid","blocks.section-head",{"id":359,"eyebrow":360,"heading":361,"body":362,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14361,"What you get","What advisory engagements cover.","Specific, scoped, time-bound projects with clear deliverables.",{"id":364,"heading":49,"intro":49,"items":365,"__component":374},2961,[366,367,368,369,370,371,372,373],"Strategic financial forecasting3- to 5-year financial models, scenario-tested, defensible. Used for board strategy, fundraising prep, capital-allocation decisions and acquisition planning.","Risk register & ERM frameworkEnterprise risk identification, scoring, ownership and mitigation tracking. Reviewed quarterly with the leadership team.","Internal control designProcess maps, segregation of duties, approval matrices, audit trails. Suitable for SOC 2 readiness or simply preventing the kind of slip that triggers regulator scrutiny.","Business continuity & resilienceContinuity plans, disaster-recovery procedures, key-person risk mitigation. Documented to a standard auditors and insurers expect.","Business valuationFor fundraising, internal share schemes, EMI exercises, divorce settlements or shareholder buyouts. Multiple methodologies applied where defensible.","Process & system selectionWhen you're selecting a new ERP, payroll system, HRIS or CRM, we provide vendor-neutral selection advice and post-implementation review.","Pricing & unit economicsCustomer-level margin analysis, pricing-elasticity studies, gross-margin decomposition. The analytical work pricing decisions should be grounded in.","M&A & transaction supportBuy-side and sell-side. 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Existing data, processes and decisions reviewed. Stakeholder interviews. State-of-play documented.",{"id":396,"num":397,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":398,"avatar":49,"body":399,"span":389,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":49},27436,"STEP 03","Recommendation phase","Analysis, modelling and written recommendations produced. Reviewed with leadership. 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The lengths are typical scoping ranges shown for illustration, agreed in writing before anything starts.",{"id":423,"heading":420,"columns":424,"rows":429,"__component":459},154,[425,426,427,428],"Engagement","Typical length","What you are left holding","What usually triggers it",[430,435,440,445,450,455],{"Engagement":431,"Typical length":432,"What usually triggers it":433,"What you are left holding":434},"Risk register build","Six weeks","A board, lender or insurer asks to see one","A scored register with one named owner and a residual score per risk",{"Engagement":436,"Typical length":437,"What usually triggers it":438,"What you are left holding":439},"Internal control design","Three months","A near miss, an attempted payment fraud, or a first external audit","A control framework, written authorisation thresholds and a segregation of duties map",{"Engagement":441,"Typical length":442,"What usually triggers it":443,"What you are left holding":444},"Business continuity plan","Four to six weeks","A customer contract or an insurer requires it","Recovery time and recovery point targets per critical process, and a run book somebody outside finance has tested",{"Engagement":446,"Typical length":447,"What usually triggers it":448,"What you are left holding":449},"Valuation","Two to four weeks","A share issue, a buyback, an option scheme or a tax event","A written valuation with the method and assumptions stated",{"Engagement":451,"Typical length":452,"What usually triggers it":453,"What you are left holding":454},"Scenario and forecast model","Four to eight weeks","A raise, a facility renewal or a large capital decision","A driver based model with downside cases that hold together",{"Engagement":456,"Typical length":437,"What usually triggers it":457,"What you are left holding":458},"Finance function redesign","Growth has outrun the setup that got you here","A process map, a system selection and a target operating model","blocks.compare-table",{"id":461,"heading":462,"items":463,"__component":492},1887,"Common questions about advisory work.",[464,468,472,476,480,484,488],{"id":465,"question":466,"answer":467},11899,"Is this different from CFO-as-a-Service?","One finishes and one does not. Advisory work is scoped against a named deliverable and signed off against an output, so it has an end date on it from the start. A CFO retainer buys a seat at the table and carries into the following month by design. The mistake we see is buying a project when what is missing is somebody owning the numbers between board meetings. Many clients run both.",{"id":469,"question":470,"answer":471},11900,"How are engagements priced?","Project-based, quoted upfront. A risk register build is typically £8k–£15k. A 5-year strategic forecast £6k–£12k. Business valuation £3k–£10k depending on complexity. We send a written scope and fee before any work begins.",{"id":473,"question":474,"answer":475},11901,"Can you give investment advice?","Modelling whether the business can afford a capital commitment, or what a purchase does to covenants and cash, is analysis, and that part we do. Naming the fund or product you should hold is a personal recommendation, which is regulated. Directors asking where personal surplus should sit get referred out. Where a conversation drifts across that line we stop and say so.",{"id":477,"question":478,"answer":479},11902,"Do you do business valuations for tax purposes?","Yes: valuations for EMI exercises, growth-share schemes, BADR claims, IHT planning and divorce proceedings are within scope. We document methodologies that withstand HMRC scrutiny.",{"id":481,"question":482,"answer":483},11903,"How do you handle confidential M&A work?","Mutual NDAs in place before sensitive information is shared. Project teams are siloed from regular accounting teams where required. Document handling follows the same SOC 2 protocols as the rest of our engagements.",{"id":485,"question":486,"answer":487},11904,"What does a risk register engagement actually deliver?","A scored register with a named owner per line, a control description and a residual score, plus a one-page board summary of everything still rated high after existing controls. Typically six weeks: two weeks of interviews across the business, two weeks drafting and challenge, one week of scoring workshops, one week to finalise. You get the working file, not a locked PDF, because the register has to be maintained after we leave.",{"id":489,"question":490,"answer":491},11905,"Do you build three-way financial models?","Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow are linked, so the model balances and the cash line is derived rather than typed. That matters because an unlinked model can show profit and hide a working capital hole. We build them for fundraising, bank facilities and internal planning, and we hand over the file with the assumptions on a separate input sheet.","blocks.faq",{"id":494,"eyebrow":495,"heading":496,"body":49,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14364,"Related","Often paired with advisory.",{"id":498,"heading":49,"dark":79,"variant":382,"note":49,"cells":499,"__component":410},6906,[500,505,509,513,518,522],{"id":501,"num":502,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":98,"avatar":49,"body":503,"span":504,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":131,"href":99},27439,"ADVISORY","Ongoing strategic leadership alongside project work.","2",{"id":506,"num":507,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":110,"avatar":49,"body":508,"span":504,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":111},27440,"ASSURANCE","Internal audit and SOC readiness as part of risk programmes.",{"id":510,"num":511,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":94,"avatar":49,"body":512,"span":504,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":95},27441,"REPORTING","The monthly numbers underpinning strategic decisions.",{"id":514,"num":515,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":516,"avatar":49,"body":517,"span":504,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":140},27442,"SECTOR","Startup accounting","Valuations, option schemes and investor-grade modelling.",{"id":519,"num":520,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":118,"avatar":49,"body":521,"span":504,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":119},27443,"GOVERNANCE","Governance documentation behind the control framework.",{"id":523,"num":524,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":525,"avatar":49,"body":526,"span":504,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":244},27444,"MARKET","UK accounting services","Where the UK regulatory and filing obligations sit.",{"id":528,"cta":529,"__component":534},2186,{"id":528,"eyebrow":530,"heading":531,"body":532,"primaryLabel":533,"primaryHref":323,"secondaryLabel":49,"secondaryHref":49,"dark":79},"Strategic engagements","Have a strategic project on your plate?","Thirty minutes to define the scope. Fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours.","Scope an advisory engagement","blocks.cta-banner"]