What we do

We have over 35 years' experience owning and managing small businesses. We understand the challenges of cash flow, hiring talented people, competing in an ever-increasing global economy, managing supplier relationships, and providing the stakeholders of the business timely and accurate financial forecasting and reporting. 

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What we do:

Provide you with a business plan that will be a lender/investor grade document complete with mission statements, market and competitive analysis, key objectives, strategic direction, SWOT analysis, and financial projections.  

Understanding your financial position at key points in time, is important to your stakeholders, lenders, and investors.  It is also critical for you as an owner to have current trends and financial analysis available to make informed decision on day-today operations.  

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What we do:

· Provide bookkeeping, controller, or CFO services on a customized basis. 

· Perform a financial review to allow you to gain a better understanding of your current financial position. This includes focusing on company results vs industry norms. Next step would be to identify the gaps and create strategies to close the gaps. We can take it a step further by building censuses amongst the stakeholders and deploying tactics to close the gaps.  

Financial Corporate Governance: We can assist business owners to ensure the company is managing the finances of the business effectively so that they always act in the best interest of stakeholders(shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers and creditors). 

Financing Review: We can review your current bank relationship and ensure you have an effective loan agreement to support the operations of the business. We can assist with meeting reporting requirements and adherence with ratios and covenants to stay compliant. 

Alternative Financing Options:

Have you been turned down by your bank or require capital to grow your business? Perhaps your business is drifting or spinning out of control? Perhaps you don’t know where to turn?  

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What we do: 

Our partner Mercana Growth Partners is a merchant banking business, which assists companies with great ideas in need of financial help.  Let us make the introduction today and see if your plan can become a reality. 

Is your business anticipating serious growth over the next 12 months and you want your team and business to be able to absorb it? Do you have projects that require a dedicated leader that can deliver results? Do you constantly say, “we are so busy every day, but with all this work, it seems like we are running in place? Do you require due diligence assistance for a potential acquisition or divesture of a business? 

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What we do: 

· Coordinate people, resources, specs, tasks, and deadlines. 

· Take project goals and break down the work to be done, the dependencies, and the scheduling. 

· Make sure the work is done on time, on spec, and on budget.

· Perform deconfliction, problem solving, encouragement, and accountability on a daily basis. 

Sometimes businesses run into operational or financial difficulties. Turnaround management is a process dedicated to corporate renewal. 

We use our previous turnround management experience to analysis, plan and implement a strategy to return to solvency. 

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What we do:

Retrenchment: Working with the owner/manager, we can prepare short term actions to reduce financial loss, stabilize the company, and improve under performance. 

Repositioning: We work with management to assess new ideas of generating revenue, products, or markets. 

Replacement: If required, we can act as an interim manager, leading the execution of the turnaround strategy until new fulltime manager(s) are hired. 

Renewal: We can assist the new manager(s) with transition and ensuring understanding and commitment to the long-term strategy and plan.  

We can review the operations and activities performed to promote or sell goods and services in your business. 

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What we do:

We can review and assist with improvements in:

Structure & organization.

Compensation plan effectiveness.

KPI (Key Performance Indicators) development.

Utilize leasing to create more sales. 

If the pay and associated costs of human capital is not your biggest expense line, it is certainly a significant one so getting Talent Management right is critical to your bottom line. You don’t need surveys and studies to tell you that turnover is expensive, poorly trained employees costs you money and not having people ready to move up in your organization hampers your ability to make money. 

Quantifying the costs of inefficient Talent Management is difficult and depends on your organization and the situation. There is broad industry agreement that losing a good Manager can cost a company anywhere between 20k-40k. Top performers vs. poor performers are typically 300% to 400% more productive. ALPOAA’s commitment is to help you make more money and an organized approach to good Talent Management is critical to helping you get where you want to go.

Our approach is simple. We ask clients to view their TM as a process or life cycle:

• Attracting and hiring the right talent.
• Effective on-boarding and orientation. 
• Meaningful training and development plan. 
• Retention strategies
• Useful performance appraisal and establishing KPI''s.
• Performance management. 
• Succession planning

Our experience is that most clients carry out some of these features well but require development in other areas. 

What we do...

We can assess, advise and carryout skill development across the entire TM journey or we can custom design for clients who want targeted support in specific areas. 

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Our experience is that most clients carry out some of these TM features well but have opportunities to develop in other areas. We can assess, advise and carry out skill development across the entire TM journey but it is also designed for clients who want targeted support in specific areas. 

Does your company require immediate assistance or have a capacity gap? 

Do you have a void in your management team that needs to be filled while you search for the ideal candidate? 

Contract-For-Hire allows your business the ability to hire on demand enabling you get the exact capacity at the right time. We can provide services at the CEO, President, General Manager, COO, CFO, Controller, Bookkeeper levels. 

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What we do:

· Provide general management and accounting services as required: interim, contract, part-time or ongoing services as required.

· Allow you time to free up bottlenecks and focus on projects that drive profit. 

· Provide access to a network of other experienced skilled managers to meet your short-term needs. 

· Provide you with the experience and business acumen of an Active Small Business Advisor.