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Bond & Company, PLC  
(517) 789 8900  
113 W Michigan Ave  
Suite 301  
Jackson, MI 49201  

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Business Services

Here you'll find information on key areas of specialty within Bond & Company, PLC. Explore these to find a solution to your particular needs.









Business Development & Growth

More than just traditional services.

Yes, we offer you all the traditional accounting services, but we understand there is so much more that can be done to help you reach your ideal profits and an improved lifestyle.

This can include assistance with strategies like management, marketing, customer service, team retention, working processes and business growth. Our business development services are designed to offer you this extra support to help make your business better, more profitable and more valuable.

A 10-Step Business Development Process for You

Bond & Company, PLC is a firm that helps you build your financial position by making your business more valuable and more profitable. To do that we've developed a specific and purposeful 10-step process to help grow your business, improve your lifestyle and increase your profits significantly. Here's how we work with you to develop the true potential of your greatest asset:

1. A Preliminary Assessment identifies your profit potential

To gauge the level of results you can expect from your business, we'll ask you to complete a preliminary questionnaire. Using software tools designed to identify and quantify your potential for profit improvement, we're able to tell you just how much improvement you could expect.

You will be considered for our business development processes if your potential for improvement is significant - typically starting at 30%. Now before you think - "my business couldn't improve by that much," most of our clients are genuinely surprised and pleased when the analysis shows their potential for added value.

2. An Initial Consultation ensures there's a match

During this step we'll present you with a summary of the improvement potential within your business. You’ll see firsthand some of the processes and approaches we use to work with our clients to begin improving the business and its return on investment. When you decide to continue with the process you receive a copy of your customized Business Development Program.

3. A Detailed Investigation maps a course of action

Included in your Business Development Program is a more detailed Business Development Questionnaire. This gives you instant insights into the challenges you face and what needs to be done to improve how you handle them. Together we can then identify the strategic opportunities that come from the way you do business (your business processes) and provide you with a documented analysis. This will help you see and develop a course of action made all that much clearer with the next step.

4. A Planning Session sets your strategic vision

Many business owners do not have a clear vision for the future of their business. To really achieve improvement, it's important to turn your vision into a crystal clear picture. From there you can work back to where you are today, identifying all the strategies you need to implement to achieve your goals. We use a Planning Session for that process. At your Planning Session our team reviews with you the key issues you face and the potential solutions. Here you really start to see how the process comes together.

5. A Plan of Action clarifies goals

We've found clients relate better to "Action" plans rather than lengthy, heavily worded business plans. You'll receive a results-orientated action plan that's easy to relate to and simple to implement. This plan provides you with the basis for moving forward with your business development. With specific goals and target dates, you and your team have a clear direction and more likelihood of success.

6. Involving your customers to guide your direction

To really create a successful business you need to know exactly what your customers want, and what they find frustrating. That way, you can adopt strategies and business processes that make your business the one they prefer to deal with.

Addressing your customers’ issues gives you a great opportunity to create a competitive edge that’s not just based on price. Holding a Client Advisory Board, where we sit down with your customers and listen to them in a structured way, is an invaluable way to add value to your business.

7. The power of your team in building a customer service strategy

The people who work for you also play a vital role in how well your business meets customers' expectations. They deal directly with the issues raised by your customers every day. Often that means they have hands-on insights that could benefit the business. A Team Advisory Board (much like a Customer Advisory Board) generates strategies that improve the processes within your business. We have protocols for working with your team to develop a customer service plan that incorporates the feedback you receive from customers and team members alike - instantly setting your business on a path much more aligned with customer expectations.

8. A process based audit to determine where improvements need to be made

We look at each business as a collection of people performing a wide range of activities or "processes." How well these activities are completed determines the outcomes or results your business achieves. And because most businesses have not truly systematized their processes, outcomes are often random and business owners are left feeling that they lack real control.

Improving business performance is fundamentally then about improving the key processes within your business. We use a system to analyze the processes that comprise your business and its activities, and helps you identify which ones need to be re-designed for far better results.

9. Defining and documenting key business processes for more control

After analyzing what processes comprise your business, we can work with you to set up a documentation system. This will give you greater control over your results by defining exactly how each process is to be completed. Again, you get better control AND outcomes. Another critical outcome to consider is that the value of your business increases as your business moves more and more towards being a turn-key system - a system that produces expected results.

10. A Management Control Plan to track your progress

Imagine having a control panel on your desk, much like the dashboard of your car, with gauges and signals that tell you instantly how your business is running. Compare that to the hectic, reactive nature of most businesses, large or small.

Your key performance indicators (KPIs) and your financial plan offer that level of control for your business just like your dashboard. Together they make up your Management Control Plan, which helps you track the progress of all key areas of your business. The plan enables you to respond quickly to changes and new situations, and thus generate optimal profits for you. It's important that we, as your business development consultants, play an ongoing role here to track key performance indicators and your financial position with sophisticated software programs.

If you'd like to contact us about our Business Development Programs - simply go to the "Contact Us" section and let us know.










Financial Statement Preparation

We provide audit, review, and compilation services to all sectors such as not-for-profit, professional groups, and small to medium sized manufacturing firms.  Our clients are closely held organizations with the exception of the not-for-profit groups.  We assist them in establishing basic accounting records and in the preparation of interim financial statements and various tax returns.

We believe in making financial statements simple and easily understood by the client and financial institutions.  We adhere to the pronouncements issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or governmental agencies.  To strengthen management procedures and improve operating results, we supplement our reports with suggestions for attaining these goals.

 

If you'd like to contact us about our Financial Statement Preparation Services - simply go to "Contact Us" and let us know.








Taxation Services

Save time and effort, and take the worry out of taxation by letting us help you with your returns.  A complete and diversified tax service is provided, including the normal services related to the preparation of federal, state, and local tax returns.  Tax planning is emphasized - corporate, personal, and estate - and includes such areas as compensation, acquisitions, and mergers.

If you'd like to contact us about our Taxation Services - simply go to "Contact Us" and let us know.








Management Advisory Services

Specialized Management Advisory Services include assistance in preparation of forecasts and working capital requirements and recommending sources of financing for operations and capital additions.

We also help evaluate computer programs and needs.  We install and support several general ledger software programs.

If you'd like to contact us about Management Advisory Services– simply go to "Contact Us" and let us know.








Business Valuations

Any accountant will tell you it's important to know your position with regard to assets versus liabilities. It's also critical to understand your real asset position for the purposes of refinancing, or gaining capital loans. More importantly, like any investment it's important to constantly know whether your assets are growing or declining in value.

To truly know that, your business (and, for that matter, your other major assets) needs to be valued regularly. Importantly, unlike your home, (the value of which can increase dramatically for reasons outside of your control), your business is a living, breathing entity that grows when the right forces are applied to it. For every business, the right forces are different. For some businesses it's changing processes or the way they do business, for others it's changing who they do business with, it may be changing the team structure, or tighter financial control, or implementing a solid strategic plan, and for others it's something entirely different.

The other purpose of our business valuation services is to measure those forces. To find out if the right forces have been applied, and take action accordingly. Naturally, if they have we might suggest you do more of whatever caused that increase in value. Conversely if the value decreased, we'd work with you to identify alternative forces or ideas to apply that could correct that position as quickly as possible.

A periodic review of the value of your business then ultimately helps us increase your business's value much more quickly.

If you'd like to contact us about our Business Valuation Services – simply go to "Contact Us" and let us know.










Succession Planning

Handing over your business to family members successfully can mean the difference between being financially sound for life or losing the value of many years of hard work and effort.

More than 70 percent of family-owned businesses do not survive the transition from founder to second generation. Rather, they fall prey to either the estate tax or family discord. Developing and implementing a well-designed plan is essential to the long-term success of the business you've grown and developed from the very beginning.

Succession planning also applies irrespective of whether you have family members looking to take over the business. One day you are going to need to exit the business, through retirement or sale. Succession planning covers the key steps to prepare the business for that moment.

In the event of selling the business to an outside purchase, Bond & Company, PLC can manage that process for and with you, as that can be an arduous undertaking.

It's important to keep this concept in mind: Ultimately, for your business to truly be a realizable asset for you, you need to constantly be working on it with a view to selling it sometime in the future. Whether you do sell it or not is irrelevant. Keeping that frame of mind means that at least you will always be in a position TO sell it and realize its true value, if you should ever want or need to.

That focus gives you a greater awareness of the need to systematize your business and make it less dependent on you. People want to buy businesses that work, not businesses that are run by people that work and work and work. Succession planning then is an ongoing, ever improving process and is just as much about working ON your business as planning for the future. (Ask us about the concept of working 'ON' your business rather than 'IN' it and just what that could mean to you!)

If you'd like to contact us about our Succession Planning Services – simply go to "Contact Us" and let us know.










Financial Planning

Financial Planning is crucial. Essentially it involves making the most of your financial position now to leverage your future financial position, both short term and long term. At Bond & Company, PLC we look at the big picture - where you are now, where you want to be, and the lifestyle you would like to become accustomed to!

The team here at Bond & Company, PLC are well versed in a variety of financial planning topics and we must meet continuing educational requirements. In addition to auditing and tax, we have specialists who have a solid broad-based financial background.

Given all those considerations you can rest assured we offer you the financial savvy and professional integrity you desire when developing creative planning strategies and planning for your financial future.

If you'd like to contact us about Financial Planning services– simply go to "Contact Us" and let us know.










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