Business Financial Consulting in Greenville, NC
Sit down with your own numbers before the decision, rather than finding out how it went from next year's return.
- More than 30 years of experience
- Ramsey Trusted Tax Pro
- Greenville, NC
- Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm
What we do
Owners make the decisions that matter in the gaps between jobs, usually alone, and usually without the numbers in front of them. Hire another person or keep paying overtime. Buy the truck or hire the truck. Take the big contract that will absorb everything for four months. Every one of those has a cash answer and it is rarely the one instinct offers.
Consulting work here means building a budget and a forward view of cash for your business, then using them to test the decision you are actually facing. What it does to the account over the next six months, where the tight point falls, and what would have to be true for it to work. Not a forecast presented as fact, but a way of seeing the shape of it before committing.
The scope is your business. This is budgeting, forecasting and the reporting behind them, applied to an operating decision. It is not investment advice, not wealth management, and not a recommendation about anything outside the company.
What business financial consulting includes
The full scope, in plain terms. Ask about any one of these on its own or all of them together.
A budget you will actually follow
Built from your real figures at a level of detail you will keep up with, rather than one that is abandoned by March.
A forward look at cash
Where the account is heading over the coming months, with the tight points visible while they can still be planned for.
Working through a hire
What another person genuinely costs once everything attached to the wage is counted, and what has to be true to cover it.
Working through a purchase
Equipment, a vehicle or a building, tested against cash and timing rather than against the monthly payment alone.
Planning a seasonal stretch
For a business whose year has a quiet run in it, the plan that gets it across rather than the hope that it will be fine.
A second read on a number
When a figure looks wrong, somebody who knows your books can tell you whether it is wrong or whether the business changed.
How it works
Bring the decision and we will start from your books. The first job is establishing where the business genuinely stands: current figures, the shape of the last twelve months, and any commitments already made that have not landed yet. That baseline is usually half the value on its own, because owners carry an out-of-date version of it in their head.
Then we build the forward view and test the decision against it. You get the numbers and the assumptions behind them, stated plainly enough to argue with, because assumptions you cannot see are assumptions you cannot correct. We go through where it gets tight and what would have to change. The decision stays yours. What changes is that you make it having seen the arithmetic.
Who financial consulting is for
- Owners weighing a first hire, or a fifth
- Businesses deciding between buying and renting equipment
- Owners looking at a contract large enough to change the year
- Seasonal businesses planning for the quiet stretch
- Owners who want a second opinion from somebody who knows their books
- Businesses that have grown and no longer recognise their own cash flow
What another person actually costs
The wage is the part everyone knows and the smallest part of the answer. Payroll taxes sit on top of it. Workers' compensation coverage follows the payroll. There is equipment, a vehicle or a phone in many trades, time spent training rather than earning, and a stretch at the start where the person costs full price and produces less than full value.
None of that argues against hiring. It argues for knowing the figure before committing to it, because the question is not whether the business can afford the wage. It is whether the business can carry the whole cost for the months before that person is genuinely paying for themselves, and that is a cash question with a date attached rather than a profit question.
State the assumptions where they can be argued with
Every forecast rests on assumptions, and the dangerous ones are the assumptions that are never written down. A projection that silently assumes last year's collection speed, or that a seasonal dip will be the same depth as last time, looks like analysis and is partly a guess wearing a suit.
So we put them on the page. This is what we assumed about timing, about volume, about the commitments already made. You know things about the coming months that no set of books contains, and stating the assumptions plainly is what lets you correct them. A forecast you can argue with is more useful than a confident one you cannot inspect.
Business Financial Consulting in Greenville and across eastern North Carolina
Our office is at 2120 E Fire Tower Rd, Suite 107 - 1074, Greenville, NC 27858, in Greenville, North Carolina, the Pitt County seat. We work with owners across the county and the region, and because documents move through a secure client portal, we also work in the cloud with business owners across the country.
Tell us where you operate and we will make sure financial consulting is handled correctly for your situation. See all our service areas.
What does a business financial consulting session cover?
Business financial consulting at Elite Accounting Services in Greenville, North Carolina means using a business's own books to test a decision before it is made. It covers building a workable budget, producing a forward view of cash, and running a specific decision against both: a hire, an equipment or vehicle purchase, a large contract, or a seasonal stretch. Assumptions are stated explicitly so they can be challenged. The scope is the business itself, and it is not investment advice or wealth management. Run by Michael Hayes. Call (252) 916-3278 or book a free consultation.
Business Financial Consulting FAQs
What does a session actually look like?
We establish where the business stands from your books, build a forward view of cash, and run your decision against it. You leave with the numbers, the assumptions behind them, and where it gets tight. The decision itself stays with you.
Is this advice about investments?
No. The scope is your business: budgeting, forecasting and the reporting behind them. We do not advise on investments, securities or personal wealth, and nothing in this service should be taken as that.
Do you have to do our bookkeeping first?
No, but the figures have to be reliable, because a forward view built on an unreconciled file is a guess with decimal places. If the books need catching up, that is work we can do first.
What should I bring?
Current books or access to them, the last full year, any commitments already made that have not hit the accounts yet, and the actual decision you are facing. The last one is the part people leave vague and it is the one that shapes everything else.
How is this different from tax planning?
Tax planning asks what a decision does to the tax bill. This asks whether the business can carry the decision at all. They overlap, and for a large purchase it is worth having both conversations rather than one.
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