Financial and Business Advisors The Billups Company has the capability and expertise to provide answers to help you meet a variety of business challenges and help your company to be more successful and profitable.  Financial Analysis.  We can go beyond just preparing financial statements. Our knowledgable and experienced professionals can use sophisticated software to help you understand what your financial results mean and where you should focus management efforts to maximize your profits. The tools we use include: In-depth year-to-year comparisons of your company data to spot important trends in your company's operations. Comparison of your company with industry data. Extensive ratio analysis. Once we have identified important issues, we can provide concrete recommendations to help you improve your company's performance. Business Planning.  Our professionals can help you build a business plan for your existing or proposed business.  A business plan can help to plan for profitability and assist you to identify and avoid costly decisions. Plans can include all or some of the following elements: Financial projections of operating results, financial position, and cash flows. Analysis of the competitive and economic environments in which your business operates. Capital budgeting. Risk analysis. Capitalization and financing alternatives. Mission statement and business objectives development. Entity selection and organization planning. Analysis of legal and regulatory environment. Decision Analysis.  We can assist you in analysing the financial aspects of a wide variety of business decisions including: Project and investment analysis. Lease versus buy analysis. Cash flow analysis utilizing net present value(NPV), internal rates of return (IRR), and other time value of money concepts. Financing decisions. Benchmarking research to identify effective strategies and techniques used by other companies to successfully deal with issues your company is facing. We can back up business instincts and intuition with hard data that can help reduce the risk in significant business transactions. Accounting Controls and Systems.  We spend a lot of time looking the accounting systems of many companies in many different industries. We can use this experience and knowledge to help you develop accounting and management systems to easily and effectively collect and report accounting information and to protect company assets and provide the information you need to manage your company profitably.