Services - Practical business advice

Our main services are designed to help businesses start and grow:

• Business Planto help clients ensure that all aspects of the business have been thought through, and to present their businesses to banks and grant awarding bodies - Businesses may have to write or update their business plan when they need a loan or grant, but periodically all businesses should reassess and document their plan.  We help our clients to research and validate a thorough plan, and to document this in a way which helps the business to move forward and which presents the business well to potential lenders, investors and grant awarding bodies.
• Business Reviewto help clients ensure that all aspects of the business have been thought through and review their direction and goals - A holistic review of the whole business helps clients to identify issues and opportunities across all their activities, leading to a prioritised action planwe can produce action plans to address business requirements to take the business forward. 
• Financial Planto forecast cash flow, profitability and funding requirements - Businesses also need to write or update their financial plan when they need a loan or grant, but all businesses would benefit from having robust cash flow, profit & loss and balance sheet forecasts.  We can help the business to prepare forecasts which they can use to justify planned projects and loans, and then monitor and manage performance against them.  forecast cash flow, profitability and funding requirements
• Management information - We help businesses to identify what financial, operational and other information is needed to manage the key areas of their business, and then to put in place simple processes for collecting, recording and using the information to improve key areas of their business performance  
• Marketing Planwe can help with all aspects of planning marketing - Most businesses only consider marketing when they launch a product or enter a market, but all would benefit from planning their marketing more thoroughly.  We help businesses to research their markets, target customers, define services, products and pricing, and develop cost effective marketing campaigns which target and measure results.
• Market research - Several of our business advisers have specialist qualifications and experience in market research and almost all our work and advice is underpinned by market research.  We help businesses to define research requirements, to plan, manage and undertake research, and to access published research.
• e-businesswe can help businesses take advantage of the latest e-Business ideas to increase sales and cut costs - We specialise in helping clients with e-business, defining opportunities and requirements for transactional websites and on-line marketing, and improving website effectiveness  
• Fund Raisingwith our excellent understanding of banks and grant awarding bodies and their procedures with our excellent understanding of banks and grant awarding bodies and their procedures

Often, more specialist work is needed. Our diverse team and wider network can draw on deep skills in many of the functions that a small business cannot afford an in-house specialist. These include;

• Strategic planning and board member mentoring for larger businesses
• Establishing financial systemswe can review or establish financial systems, accounting, financial reporting and financial controls to manage cash flow and profitability more effectively
• Business startwe can help with all aspects of business startup to help a new business plan, raise finance, and develop the broad range of management skills that are needed
• Business recoverywe help businesses to identify what their problems are and then to take steps to cut costs and increase revenues to help businesses in financial difficulty reassess their position, restructure and refinance to survive and succeed
• Human resources managementwe can help businesses get the most out of their most valuable resource to inject the skills and build the processes which caring employers need
• Health & safetywe can help to put in place better health and safety processes, undertake risk assessments management to safeguard owners, workers and customers
• Project managementwe can help with all aspects of project management to get big projects done to budget, on time and to the required quality
• Performance improvementwe can conduct reviews to identify areas where performance can be improved to lift a business to reach its potential

Our consultants always collaborate closely with clients to shape their work to each business and its needs, offering hands on help which gets things done.

We also offer finance brokinginclude mortgages, asset finace (such as leasing), invoice finance (or factoring), and other financial services services. These include mortgages, asset finace (such as leasing), invoice finance (or factoring), and other financial services. West Wales Consulting is an Associate Member of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers.