About The book
A journey for driving a business beyond survival.
Facilitating informed decision-making strategies based on business intellect. The approach is centered on a strategic management style to enhance enterprise value.
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
Who Should Read This Book?
Business Owners
Understanding what really matters to drive a business beyond the threshold of survival.
Entrepreneurs
Understanding what really matters to make informed decisions about mergers, acquisitions and exit strategies.
Providers of Capital
Financial analytics and approaches to making informed decisions for providers of debt and equity capital.
Accounting Professionals
A structured approach to providing professional advisory and added value services.
Expected Outcome for Readers
As a reader, you should gain an understanding of the various principles, theories and practices that are vital to success in the great game of business. Understanding the meaning of “survival in business” provides a new platform for building a meaningful strategy for growth. The broad range of topics in this book is relevant for anyone involved in business activities, whether as an entrepreneur, manager, employee, accounting professional, investor or other stakeholder.
Business Advisory and Other Information
The provision of expert advice and guidance to the community of business to help them improve their performance, solve problems, and achieve their goals.
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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
