A comprehensive business companion
A journey for driving a business beyond survival
Making informed decisions based on real business intelligence supporting a strategic financial management style for increasing enterprise value.
Vision Statement
Learning and Growth
Education series
Transferring knowledge, skills, behaviours, and attitudes are fundamental to building a business beyond survival. The purpose and passion of the Company is to create and share awareness of the things that really matter to build a successful business.
Business Advisory
Professional services
The provision of expert advice and guidance to the community of business to help them improve their performance, solve problems, and achieve their goals.
Our commitment to providing meaningful learning and growth .
What you will find in this book
This book is designed in five parts. Together, they provide a comprehensive business manual that can take you from your first ideas to build or buy a business through to your eventual exit strategy and all the steps in between.
Understanding the Key Business Components
Acquiring Business Beyond Survival stage to maximise the Business Value
Evaluating and Managing Corporate Performance
Well-developed Business Models and Managerial Tools
Just the Beginning...
The meaning and character of business beyond survival
Survival in business is challenging and not for the faint hearted. Take the survival test and position your business on the survival spectrum.
Learning and design thinking
A structured approach to business
Building capacity to grow
The Book … About The Author
André Van Zyl B.Com; Hons. B.Compt; FCA; CMA.
Andre’ is a true specialist in enterprise value creation.
As a Fellow member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, founding director of his own business consultancy, former partner and principal at several accounting firms, and an advisory board member for companies around Australia, Andre’ compellingly combines expertise and experience.
He has helped countless founders, owners and managers to turn around their companies and maximise the value of their business. He has completed many business valuations within a variety of sectors. And he has delivered numerous workshops to members of The Executive Connection (TEC) along with playing a key role nationally in training members of the accounting profession.
Andre’ is passionate about optimising business performance. Throughout his 40-year career, he has developed a unique approach that brings together financial performance assessment methodologies, the implementation of the balanced scorecard, shareholder value, activity-based costing and three-dimensional budgeting.
Andre’ is currently the founding director and principal of Business Be In It Pty Ltd, a professional business consulting firm providing guidance in business performance evaluation, strategic and business design planning, and value creation. Prior to that, he held the position of partner and founder at Enterprise Elements – Chartered Accountants from 2013 to 2020, and the position of principal of WHK Horwath EIS, a division of one of the larger accounting services firms in Australia.
Andre’ has taken up numerous advisory board appointments, acting as a facilitation chairperson to ensure that process and conduct around the boardroom table is efficient and effective.
He has participated in the design and delivery of courses in activity-based costing, shareholder value and the balanced scorecard for the Queensland University of Technology as an Adjunct Professor with the School of Accountancy, Faculty of Business. He continues to hold a Certificate of Public Practice and has been a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand for more than 38 years.
“A must-read for anyone starting or running a business. This comprehensive companion will take you on a journey from soft skills to financial strategies and everything in between to help you to survive, thrive and be investor-ready in the contemporary business environment.”
“A culmination of the author’s professional work and research over a lifetime of helping businesses to succeed. André is a passionate advocate of using the balanced scorecard to deeply understand a business. Here, his clear explanations and examples will empower owners, leaders and employees to excel in the world of business ‘beyond survival’.”
Contents
What you will find in this book
This book is designed in five parts. Together, they provide a comprehensive business manual that can take you from your first ideas to build or buy a business through to your eventual exit strategy – and all the steps in between. Each part is briefly summarised below.
1.0 Part one
Understanding basic business elements makes light reading of the essential elements to consider when building a successful small- to mediumsized business. This section addresses the fundamentals applicable to an existing business, a start-up or an acquisition.
2.0 Part two
Managing and measuring business performance beyond survival clearly articulates what it takes to measure and manage performance .We look at how to apply financial, nonfinancial and other strategic measures to complex business modelling and reporting.
3.0 Part three
Investigates resilience. How can a business survive, pivot and thrive when faced with unexpected disruption? These challenges are relevant to all businesses, irrespective of size and industry group. The key theme is not to only grow beyond survival, but to optimise enterprise value and returns for providers of capital.
4.0 Part four
A deeper understanding of advanced business concepts and management tools embraces a deeper understanding of business valuation methodologies, forecasting models, pricing, costing, management reward systems, mergers and acquisitions, and shareholder value.
5.0 Part five
Practical examples of business beyond survival. Part five brings the concepts from the previous four parts of this book to life.
A structured approach to making informed business decisions
Book extract , page 49