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FINANCE

AN OVERVIEW

OF THE BUSINESS

SUPPORT SERVICES:

✱ Tax Advisory
Specialist tax advisory services to ensure you are managing
and planning your affairs efficiently and the outcomes are
more tax effective.

✱ Credit Insurance Services
In today’s economic environment risk management
uly saw the launch of the in business planning today. has come to the top of the tree of management reviews.
BPIF’s Financial Alliance Making the wrong decision BPIF Financial Alliance is here to help you minimise
Jbusiness support pack, or discussing your issues too your exposure to risk.
which incorporates a wide readily with existing lenders ✱ Commercial Finance
BUILDING on supporting you and today. Business issues are far The Commercial Finance service provides you with access
has far more repercussions
range of services focused
to objective and professional individuals who can discuss
your business through the
more interlinked and the BPIF
the best options for finance, sources of finance, cash flow
Financial Alliance offers an
challenges of this economic
ON YOUR cycle and beyond. integrated support service to planning as part of your decision making process.
This will enable all BOSS
help make objective decisions
✱ Red Flag A!ert
members to have access to
based on the opportunities and
This fully automated system allows you to monitor the
ramifications this will have on
a range of strategic business
BUSINESS support services that can help you and the business. financial health of your customers and suppliers. It can
provide valuable information on how to find new credible
develop solutions across a wide
‘Due to the current
range of services - designed to
economic climate, there has
customers and alert you when one of your customers is
FOUNDATIONS ensure BOSS members survive never been a better time for declaring bankruptcy. The Red Flag service will help you
BOSS members to focus on
track over 7.5m records on every business in the UK from
and prosper.
protecting the sector and
from sole traders to PLCs.
The BPIF Financial Alliance
is an initiative, composed of
it. Change is a powerful force
reputable organisations that the people who work within ✱ Buy, sell, merge or restructure
are trusted by the market, the and we feel we have a range of Experts can offer a confidential service to business owners
BPIF Financial Alliance – Solutions for the institutions supporting the services fully complemented and management teams to help identify and execute
Health and Wealth of You and Your Business. sector and individuals who are by all the other BOSS services transactions with the aim of enhancing personal and
knowledgeable, professional,
to support you through difficult
corporate wealth.
helpful and who understand and taxing times to the uplift that
the sector. will eventually come. ✱ Investigations and debt collection
Marcus Clifford, Director, BPIF ‘It’s difficult sometimes not to Providing fraud detection and investigation services as well
McInnes Corporate comments, feel that you’re alone and that as tracing and collecting commercial debt to get your cash
‘One issue is particularly everyone’s out to get you, never flowing in the right direction.
relevant during these difficult mind all the compliance issues that
business times: it is best not to keep hitting us. The BPIF Financial ✱ Forensic Accounting Services
discuss problems or issues with Alliance is here to help you see a Giving you access to experts in forensic accounting,
your current lenders until you clear way through my difficulties.’ financial investigation and valuation to offer skilled, timely
have established a clear plan and cost-effective input into dispute issues affecting your
for progressing the business. n COPIES OF THE BUSINESS business.
It’s also vital to find alternative SUPPORT PACK CAN BE
sources of funding as in many OBTAINED FROM CATHY ✱ Business Restructuring
cases highlighting a problem PRIDDLE OR FOR FURTHER We can offer a business review which can help the owner/
creates a chain reaction and INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON management team address the operational and financial
reduction in support from your ANY OF THESE AREAS PLEASE challenges that can hinder their business’s performance.
current lenders.’ CALL OUR HELPLINE ON: We will work closely with management to create strategic
‘Who you can trust’ and 08700 600129 Or VISIT: restructuring solutions to get the business back on track and
‘preparedness’ are crucial issues www.bpif-financialallince.com maximise its potential.
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