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The essence of successfully managing a business is planning and control.

Planning means identifying the risks and opportunities and assessing the resources that are available to meet them.

Control means measuring actual performance against the planned performance and taking remedial action.

An essential part of effective business planning is a well thought out and coherent business plan. An effective part of control is an efficient method of accounting for performance and systems that will provide the required performance indicators accurately.

Another very useful tool in planning and controlling a business is the systematic assessment of those risks to which a business is exposed, and the setting of policies and plans to deal with those risks. Peter Brown & Co can assist by providing a business risk assessment.

The sections below contain links to some of the specific services that Peter Brown & Co is able to offer . For those items where the links are still under development do not hesitate to contact us for an informal discussion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drafting a business plan

 

Measuring performance against the plan

The key elements of a business plan

 

Be prepared to be flexible

Updating the business plan

 

Assessing strengths and weaknesses

Business risk assessment

 

 

Identifying opportunities

 

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Updating the business plan

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Measuring performance against the plan

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Be prepared to be flexible

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Assessing strengths and weaknesses

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Identifying opportunities

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The key elements of a business plan

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A business risk assessment

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A fundamental part of standard auditing techniques is the preparation of a business risk assessment to establish those risks to which an enterprise is exposed. Such an assessment will initially form the basis of our approach to an audit and eventually will help management to plan future action to reduce or eliminate those risks, or prepare to meet them if they are unavoidable.

 

Although this technique was developed to assist in audit work, it has a much broader application. Any business can benefit from a detailed business risk assessment, whether or not it is subject to audit. Indeed, charities of a certain size are obliged to undertake a business risk assessment of their activities.

 

A business risk assessment will look at every area of economic, political, legal and environmental issues that might impact on the business, and identify the likelihood of any particular area of risk actually occurring. It will then suggest ways in which the risks can be tackled.

 

This can be a very useful management tool, and one with which Peter Brown & Co would be pleased to assist.

 

 

 

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Last updated on 19/12/2002 10:26 PM