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What is a Business Advisor & What Should I Expect Them to Do?

01 Nov What is a Business Advisor & What Should I Expect Them to Do?

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What is a Business Advisor & What Should I Expect Them to Do?

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A business advisor is solutions oriented. He or she provides business owners with the knowledge and information that will help them run their businesses more effectively and profitably. An advisor has deep knowledge across multiple disciplines and has experience in working in several functions. The role of the advisor can be compared with a mentor or guide around a wide scope of subjects and differs categorically from the scope of a task specific consultant.

Business advisors can be consulted on a one-time occasion to assist with streamlining or improving a business or a company’s particular division, or they can play a more active role, offering recurrent advice sessions to their clients. Many business advisors offer one on one consultation along with business classes designed for groups of people, such as new business owners or specific classes of different sectors within the same company. A highly qualified business advisor is able to translate perspective and verbiage from one angle to another, lay out and implement the plan and explain the necessity for each piece.

The best business advisors have many years of multiple industry experience’s that they apply to solving situations by identifying potential areas of concern before they would become a problem, and helping businesses expand and grow beyond and out of their own box. When a company hires a business advisor, the individual will spend some time reviewing and analyzing records, visiting the premises, meeting with employees, and talking with the business owners about their goals as it may relate to the history of the business and its industry. If there is a specific area of concern, the business advisor will focus on that concern and identify the surrounding situations that may potentially be causing the concern, whether it be financial, managerial, technical, or intellectual.

What A Business Advisor Can Do For You

Effective advisors provide people with information about legal matters, the best practices used in their industries, common trends and pitfalls, and many “other things”, which in all companies today have the differing elements of living natures. A business advisor can help people find out where and why a business is going wrong so they can assist in turning it around. In addition, an effective advisor can assist people with the development of a new business or a new branch of an existing one. Advisor’s will also provide referrals of organizations that a business may find helpful along with additional professionals that may be needed.

Transferring the assets of the business, on the other hand, is much more challenging and a veritable mine-field. The first thing you should do is spend significant time with your financial planner, both for your business and your personal one. Get their advice as to how best to handle the transition. Review the tax codes and see what parts of the company qualify as gifts, which parts must be sold, and how transfers translate into taxes. Consult your legal department as well as to the best way to transfer the name on assets and whether you should do so over a period of time or all at once.

Working with a business advisor can be highly beneficial for a business, large or small. Advisors have years of experience tempered by knowledge gained through working with numerous types of businesses within industry specific environments. This can be applied to a variety of businesses and situations to help them succeed.

When you hire a business advisor you should expect that your profits will improve, you will operate more efficiently, and if your goal is to create a turnkey operational model, it will happen if it can. If your goals fall into the previously mentioned expectations then your customer service will improve, and your customer base will expand, along with many other positive improvements being the outcome. There are an unlimited number of goals that can be accomplished and they all depend on the owner’s wants and/or needs requested.

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