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Is your business healthy? Or does it have a cancerous growth somewhere?

Or could you be in denial? Do our simple test below to see how YOU fare.

Basic Business Assessment

Once a year many business owners will have their personal vital statistics (such blood pressure, cholesterol count, etc.) checked out by their GP. While they live with their bodies all day, and know exactly how it feels, and behaves and suffers from babalaas, they also know that they if they get some expert outside opinion, it can save them (more so their families) a great deal of heartache in the future.. However, little thought is actually given to ensuring that the machine which is ultimately responsible for their livelihoods does not have the bonnet lifted to check out its vital statistics. See which ones are question marks below:

Enough cash in business
Debtors paying on time
Profitability comfortable
Production process great
R&D projects delivered on time
Enough cash in business
Statutory and tax requirements fully met
Staff competent and stable
Middle and top management is sound (you've actually taken unbroken leave in the past few years)
IT and other systems working well
Quality is good - no customer complaints
Capital equipment and facilities good
Processes well documented
Cash situation is good
Societal obligations on track or no problem (BEE, employment equity, environmental, safety, etc.)
Cash position is great (oops, I'm repeating myself).

Well, if every one above was an all-clear - I'd like to make you an offer to help you SELL your business. It is really something special!! But seriously, any question marks in the list above are only symptoms of another problem somewhere.

The problem you'll likely have in investigating your own business is that:

You are probably not as objective as you would like to be.
Your staff may be hiding things from you for a number of good reasons - apart from plain fear or a desire to spare you (who has so many worries already) another little cancerous worry (after all it really is not so important... YET!!).
You may not know where to look, what questions to ask, even of yourself.
You don't have the time. After all, there is the question of Mrs Grimpot's complaint about quality; and Crook and Co down the road have again refused to pay even after the work was completed and accepted by them; and ... You get the drift?

This is when you bite the bullet, and call in the professionals. Our experienced business support professionals will pay you a visit, and ask a bunch of questions. They'll look around some more, and ask some more. You may need to provide some historical information. After a week or so, with their investigation having taken around a day in total, plus some analysis, they will provide their assessment of your business.

I call this a Basic Business Assessment in much the same way as when you visit your General Practitioner, she will diagnose some problems, but may refer you to a cardiologist for some specialist advice. (And what does a visit to your GP cost you? For how many minutes?)

To schedule a Basic Business Assessment for a small business,
at a cost of just R1995-00 (VAT excl.) click the button below. Our business advisers will contact you shortly. This will allow us to immediately prioritise your business.

However, if your needs are not as serious, and you are in a position to allow others to jump the queue, then we will do our best to accommodate you. Click here if you require more information. We look forward to meeting you.