Bryony Business Solutions

Services offered by Bryony Business Solutions:

Tenders - Preparation and Submission

Grant Advice and Dealing With Bureaucracy

Accountancy & Book-Keeping Services

Monthly Management Accounts

Advice and Planning
Bryony Business Solutions have a proven track record offering general advice to aid decision making and planning, a good knowledge of:

HR principals, processes and legislation,

Managing difficult people and difficult situations

Health and Safety,

Business Continuity Planning,

In fact all of those difficult situations you are either not sure how to handle or would like to put off can be made easier by involving us as we find permanent solutions to your business problems.

Business Plans
Production of business plans for banks or investors, costed and balanced plans with projections (1yr, 3yr, 5yr or month by month) and estimated cash flows to support investment decisions. All plans personalized to meet your specific business needs and activities

Business Support
Producing professional stylized reports and documents to enhance the way your business is perceived. Using the correct layouts and terms of reference when preparing these documents gives the signal that the organisation takes itself seriously, is professional and efficient.
Professional documents produced by talented staff either to standard templates or adhoc to meet your requirements can be generated using:
- Word
- Publisher
- Excel
- PowerPoint

Cash Flow Forecasts
By analyzing the patterns of income and expenditure and including assumptions of future activity it is possible to develop a monthly/weekly or yearly estimate of cash requirements for your business. We can then negotiate with your creditors to ensure that outgoings match your income on a week by week basis. The benefits of this business planning tool are that you are in control of when you spend money and always know how much excess cash you may have. Of course the opposite is also true and it is possible to identify well in advance if cash flow difficulties are forecast.

Grant Advice and Dealing with Bureaucracy
Filling out documentation for government funding or grants can be a daunting task as can pulling together all the evidence and supporting documents to ensure your claim is not invalidated. Donna O'Brien at Bryony Business Solutions (BBS) has 10 years of experience completing and submitting such applications and also completing the quarterly returns required by the granting bodies. Whilst BBS cannot ensure your success we can improve your chances of being successful and can simplify the bureaucracy of your dealings with the official bodies or granting agencies

Accountancy & Book-Keeping Services

When you are busy on other business activities accounts can often get in a mess. We have a wide range of experience in the preparation of income and expenditure accounts for small business, using both manual and computerised systems. We can offer facilities whereby we will issue invoices, process purchase invoices, chase amounts owed, process payment runs, reconcile bank accounts and ensure your admin doesn’t get in a mess. You choose how many hours of our time you need on a weekly, monthly or annual basis.

Monthly Management Accounts
Following on from the above, once the books are up to date, we can analyse your data and work with you to identify how well your business is performing against budgets or expectations. We can analyse specific jobs or processes to identify the true cost and profit margin or contribution each job is bringing in. This process helps to identify processes or jobs which cost you money rather than make you money.

Tenders - Preparation and Submission
Responding to an invitation to tender by the public sector can be a time consuming and tedious task. Many smaller companies are put off by the paperwork required and daunted by the detailed information requested. Of the businesses that are not put off at the first hurdle many do not complete all the requirements or miss key parts of the tender submission, meaning that they cannot be considered for the tender.

BBS staff have worked in public sector procurement and have detailed knowledge of what makes a good tender submission. Often decisions are not made on price alone and a strong tender which addresses all of the key requirements will be successful even if it is not the cheapest.

BBS cannot guarantee that you will be awarded the job but can significantly improve your chances by working with your staff on any submissions.