Financial Management
Cash flow, working capital and the financial visibility a growing business stops having by accident.
Practice 03
Business Advisory
Businesses rarely stand still. As they grow, new challenges emerge, systems become stretched, and decisions become more complex. ARAN helps business owners strengthen the foundations of their business through better financial structures, stronger internal systems, and practical strategies that support sustainable growth.
You might recognise this
Three situations this practice exists to answer.
The structure was set up for a smaller business
Entities were added as needs arose. Now the group is difficult to explain to a lender, a buyer or the tax department.
The same problem keeps returning
It has been escalated, discussed and re-assigned. It keeps coming back, because nobody has written down how the work should run.
Every decision still comes to you
The business has grown past the point where one person can hold it, but nothing has been handed over because nothing has been defined.
What ARAN does
The work, in detail.
Business Structuring & Restructuring
Entity and group structure reviewed against how you operate, raise money and intend to exit, then rebuilt where it no longer fits.
Financial Structuring
Capital structure, funding mix and intra-group flows designed so growth is financed without straining the balance sheet.
Business Strategy
Where to compete, what to price, and what to stop doing, treated as a set of decisions rather than a document.
SOP Development & Implementation
Written procedures for the processes that matter, implemented with the people who run them, not handed over as a binder.
Internal Systems & Controls
Approval limits, segregation of duties and control checks sized for your business, enough to catch problems, not enough to stop work.
Related practices
What this work usually connects to.
Taxation & Regulatory Advisory
GST, income tax, litigation support and the regulatory work that gets expensive the moment it is left alone.
Relevant insights
Written by the people who do this work.
Business Advisory
Why your best process fix will fail without owner clarity
A procedure without a named owner is a suggestion, and suggestions do not survive a busy week.
5 min read
Business Advisory
What a clean data room actually looks like
In a transaction, preparation is negotiating position. The party with answered questions sets the terms.
6 min read
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