CFO & Board of Advice Programs
Sounding board services are key growth opportunities for all professional services practices. Your SME and ME clients need confidence and accountability to makes changes in their business – to not only survive, but thrive.
They want to meet regularly with you to plan the future growth, improvement and succession of their business. There are two types of advisory sounding board services you can provide to your clients – Chief Financial Officer and Board of Advice. Bstar offers programs in both.
CFO Program
The CFO Program is part of a two-step business advisory process to offer your small business clients improvement services. The first step is to complete a strategic risk analysis on your client’s business using the Better Business Program.
The second step is the CFO service. It is an operational sounding board service to improve your client’s profit and cash flow. It is an advisory solution that can create leverage in your practice by being delivered by your professional staff and features:
As an Alliance Partner of Bstar, you receive advice and support on how to structure and deliver professional CFO services to your existing and new clients.
Bstar is currently developing an online, automated, and predictive CFO Program due for release in the 2018/19 financial year.
Board of Advice Program
The Board of Advice service is a ‘strategic’ sounding board service usually offered to your medium to large business clients to support the growth and transition of their business value. It is usually delivered by Partners/Directors of professional services practices and features:
Introduce & Grow Board of Advice Services
As an Alliance Partner of Bstar, you receive training and ongoing support on how to structure and deliver professional Board of Advice services to your existing and new clients. You can access Board of Advice Program materials and processes including but not limited to a Charter, Agendas, Meeting Summary Notes and Action Plan templates.
A business revaluation on the anniversary of your Board of Advice services engagement is essential to securing an ongoing role as your clients’ most trusted adviser.
Quantifying the improved value builds greater trust, as you are able to demonstrate the value created from your Board of Advice service. Bstar’s Business Valuation Tool features ‘what if’ and revaluation functionalities to achieve this outcome.
Become an Alliance Partner
Bstar’s Alliance Partner Program is not a tool; but rather an online platform that provides accountants and other professional advisers with structure and processes to introduce and grow high margin and profitable, value-adding services. All content and reporting is branded with your practice logo and contact details.
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