Finance & Accounting for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Our Purpose is to Champion and Guide Founders, Operators, Entrepreneurs, and Owners on Their Mission to Drive Growth, Progress, and Innovation
We do this by building finance and accounting into a foundational core within our clients’ businesses. This core provides stability, it improves decision making, and it provides for immense agility.
Our Services
Accounting
Our accounting services are aimed at collecting and reporting financial data. This requires that we design, build, and actively manage the systems, underlying structure, and ongoing accounting processes to produce accurate, timely, and useful financial information for your business.
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Bill/Expense Entry
Bank Feed Management
Reconciliations
Fixed Asset Register Management
A/R Reporting
A/P Reporting
Prepaid/Deferred Revenue Accounting
Payroll Accounting
Sales Tax Accounting
Accounting & Finance Systems Selection
Accounting & Finance Systems Implementation
Accounting & Finance Systems Integration
Accounting Process Design & Implementation
Chart of Accounts Reorganizations
GAAP Guidance
Cash to Accrual Conversion
Accounting Data Quality Review
Financial Planning & ANalysis
We build and manage financial forecasts using improved financial data to guide and direct decisions. We use a financial forecast model as an analytical framework to analyze trends, forecast impacts, and map the steps between now and a desired future state.
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Financial Forecasting & Modeling
Annual Planning
Budgeting & Variance Reporting
Capital Project Analysis
Scenario Analysis
Trend Identification & Analysis
Investor Reporting
Consulting & Advisory
Our consulting and advisory work is about driving improvements in our clients’ businesses. We use our accounting and finance services as the foundation and then we layer in a persistent and consistent cadence of planning, analysis, and review of initiatives to support execution.
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Capital Structure Advisory
Revenue/Product Mix Improvement
Compensation Planning
Incentive Compensation Design
Start-Up Capital Raise Guidance
Net Working Capital Management
Start-Up Runway and Burn Management
Revenue Health
Bookings/Backlog/Pipeline Improvement
Margin Enhancement
Growth Consulting & Advisory
Business Risk Assessment
Long-term ownership planning/strategy
Vendor negotiation
Who We Are
We are professionals that support strategy using financial data. We design, build, and actively manage the operational finance and accounting of small businesses to form the bedrock of decision making and support our clients on their journey and mission.
Who We Are Not
We are not investment bankers, lawyers, CPAs, or recruiters. We do not sell businesses or raise capital. We do not advise on legal structures or agreements. We do not prepare tax returns or perform compilations, reviews, or audits.
Our Process
Engaging with Ballast means engaging with a process. Our services are not a menu of options, they are a variety of the services performed in the execution of our process. This process can be broken into three phases - accounting, finance, and consulting and advisory.