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System Reviews
Maximising the benefits of your financial management systems and undertaking full systems reviews.

Business Planning
Producing or reviewing business plans, especially for growing businesses or business-owners who are thinking of selling.

Strategic Planning
Assisting with strategic planning includes planning for succession.

Profit Maximisation
In the fast changing world of business it is easy to fall into a reactive state. Your business copes with crises as they occur, reacts to opportunities and problems, but somehow never has the time to plan.

At Rawlinsons we can help you with a number of different planning processes. We can investigate your existing business and provide consultancy on how to improve your profitability. We provide full strategic business plans for start-ups as well as mature businesses and assist in the review of your business processes.

We will work with you to ensure that you have a pro-active approach to your business, and can thus manage opportunities and meet challenges head on.

We also run a monthly breakfast forum where like minded business owners gather to share ideas, experiences and network in an informal relaxed environment. These sessions are led by our in house team of consultants and feature a presentation on a business topic every month to stimulate ideas that you can take away and develop.

Specialist Projects
Analysing a particular aspect of the business or investigating unexpected fluctuations in cashflow, costs or revenues.

Business Acquisitions
Our specialist advisers are available to undertake due diligence investigations into potential business acquisitions.

Quasi Financial Director
No doubt you have a very competent finance department but do you have a Finance Director? If not, who advises you on strategic business planning, corporate structures, development of the business, treasury management, fund raising, asset purchases and capital spend, tax planning, interpretation of management accounts and cashflow management?
Although valuable to the business, employing a Finance Director can be very expensive. We can help by taking on the role of a quasi finance director to handle these matters. By outsourcing this service you save the salary cost and have the benefit of someone who is totally independent, has broad-based business experience in many industries and is approachable.
Many of our clients enjoy the benefits our expertise brings to their boardroom table. We can also be a sounding board for discussion on issues arising in the business either by attending formal meetings to report on financial matters, or with regular but less formal reviews to set targets, budgets and help improve your profitability.

Payroll Bureau

Our Approach
Running your own in-house payroll service can become a burden and an expensive overhead.  Recent changes have added to the ever increasing legislative burden on business.  As a result many organisations now realise the benefits of using an outside service supplier. Rawlinsons has been providing payroll services for many years and is an approved BACS Payroll Bureau.

• Weekly or monthly payroll processing
• Management reports tailored to your needs
• BACS processing
• Year-end forms for HM Revenue & Customs
• Advice on payroll matters e.g. maternity and paternity pay, sick pay, redundancy and termination payments, tax credits, student loans, national minimum wage and other legislative changes.

Focus on services

Saves time
Many firms lose valuable staff time in calculating gross pay, PAYE and NIC deductions etc, either manually or with a computer package.  Using a payroll bureau will enable staff to concentrate on other important areas of work.

Saves money
Some companies have payroll staff who are busy at certain times of the month and have less to do the rest of the time.  Other companies give this task to employees who have additional roles.  Our payroll bureau uses economies of scale to reduce the cost to individual companies.

Increases confidentiality
Lack of payroll confidentiality can often create staff discontentment.  When using a payroll bureau, this problem can be greatly reduced because fewer people in the organisation will have access to the information.

Reduces dependence on one employee
Many firms rely on one member of staff to undertake the payroll.  This leaves a degree of vulnerability as illness or resignation may leave the business without sufficient payroll skills at short notice.  By using Rawlinsons’ Payroll Bureau, this over-dependence is completely removed.