Our Clients...
Terptree
Terptree was established in September 2006 to provide local interpreting services to local people. Although terptree is primarily focused on providing interpreting services, they are a business with a flexible approach and are on hand to offer practical solutions to their customers communication needs.
Victoria Gibson, Director of Terptree www.terptree.co.uk says:
Vanessa has been fantastic in steering us in the right direction - from strategic and business planning to ensuring that the every-day finances are in an easy-to read accessible format. The support that we have received has enabled terptree to grow and move to the next level - so thanks Vanessa - your support and guidance has been invaluable.
Mission Possible Ltd
Mission Possible provides support services for women in business through coaching, networking and the launch of Mission Growth – helping women owners in businesses to grow their business through monthly “virtual directors” meeting to discuss business issues in a non competing environment. Although the business had been around for some time, Mission Growth was being launched and the owner and founder of Mission Possible, Sue Stockdale, recognised that she no longer had the time or skills to ensure that everything from a “financial” perspective was running smoothly.
FFCL provide part time FD services to Mission Possible, initially the job was about catching up with Accounts but we are continuing to work with MP to ensure their systems and process are in order, we have helped them to develop a sound business plan for funding and are in the process of setting up Key performance indicator for them to monitor the success of the business. We also attend their quarterly board meetings to discuss the business.
Sue Stockdale, Owner and Founder of Mission Possible says:
Vanessa has been a real asset to our business since she got involved in working with us. She is friendly and approachable, whilst also being professional and knowledgeable and has helped us critically review the business in a way that we had not done before. I would highly recommend her if you want to drive your business forwards and feel supported whilst doing so.
Freestyle Accounting Ltd
Freestyle Accounting was a new accounting business set-up to provide accountancy services to IT contractors and freelancers operating through limited companies. Although the team was highly skilled, they recognised that their area of expertise was in dealing with “traditional” financial accounting and tax and not setting up their own “business” systems, processes and procedures and business analysis through management information.
Freestyle Financial Consultancy work with Freestyle Accounting, having initially set-up their internal accounts system in totality we have now moved on to providing them with business critical management information and key performance indicators to assist them in making business decisions.
Inspired Design & Marketing Ltd
Pete Tyler from Inspired Design & Marketing has recently set-up this new business providing predominately on-line marketing services and his unique “brand in a box” to small and mid size companies. Inspired was in the very early stages of set-up and Freestyle Financial worked on an ad-hoc basis with Pete to help him make the right pricing decisions for his business as well as focussing on the most profitable services and ensuring he was doing the simplest of things including accurate capturing of time worked on projects, working out daily rates for charging out his team and managing his time effectively.
Pete Tyler, Director of Inspired Design & Marketing says:
Freestyle Financial have been instrumental in helping us establish the right business strategy from the outset. We were a little overwhelmed with our day to day tasks and failed to see which projects / services were making the most profit. With help from Vanessa at Freestyle we have taken a step back, analysed the business and now developed an effective pricing strategy to maximise our profit.