Value added products
There has been a fundamental change in the market for the traditional skills of the qualified accountant. Deregulation and the increase in automation of the accounts and tax compliance work has resulted in increased competition. Therefore, the products described below have been developed with an emphasis on value-added services and increased practice efficiency.
ACCA Business Turnaround
There has been a recent trend of trying to turn a business around as the preferred option, rather than embarking on regulated insolvency work in the first instance. ACCA Business Turnaround provides practitioners with a tool to help them diversify the range of services they offer by enabling them to provide this highly valued consultancy service to clients.ACCA Business Turnaround provides a structured approach to understanding the processes involved. It comprises both working papers (designed to stimulate ideas, working closely with the client) and detailed guidance notes, covering such areas as:
- the legal aspects
- ethical considerations
- the approach to the assignment
- the use of detailed ratio analysis
- the engagement process
- exiting the turnaround process, and
- marketing the service.
This product provides a tool to facilitate discussion between the practitioner and the client, thereby enabling the client to visualise the way forward. It is available at a cost of £150 plus VAT.
To order a copy of ACCA Business Turnaround please call: +44(0)141 534 4700 or email: info@accaglobal.com
ACCA Business Planner
ACCA Business Planner is a toolkit for accountants and advisers working in the world’s largest industry – tourism. The product helps with risk analysis, planning and implementing identified changes, performance measurement and the communication of the results (through graphs and a “what if” facility).ACCA Business Planner enables you to:
- examine the risks facing the business
- design projects and action plans to address those risks
- map actual performance to targets set
- assess the sensitivity of targets and results
- produce graphical analyses of performance
- input data via the software or by importing from Excel.
The risk assessments and performance analyses can be carried out for the business as a whole, or can be performed for each of the business’s different locations, or income streams. Performance may be charted on a monthly or weekly basis.
The software is designed to be intuitive, so that no training is needed, and there is a detailed “help” facility. ACCA Business Planner is available at a cost of £275 plus VAT. You can request a demo CD of this product by sending an e-mail to: planner@valsteward.com.
To place an order, e-mail connect.orders@accaglobal.com or telephone 0141 582 2000.