What does KFI do?

If you are a business owner or an entrepreneur with a great idea, you’d like to bring to life, have you ever thought “I really ought to be getting some help at this point”? Depending on the nature of the help you’re looking for, KFI could be the answer.

We can help you to distil your ideas into an organised strategy that is both faithful to your vision and conveys to the outside world what you’re going to do and how you’re going to do it. Written down in a narrative that is true to you but also speaks to the audience you want to listen.
KFI can capture your business idea in the form of a dynamic model illustrating how your plan will be delivered over time. Use this to give comfort to those with whom you wish to do business and or from whom you’d like to secure financial backing.
Will you need to use specific equipment, that you don’t already own, to operate your business? If so, KFI can help you determine the most practical and cost-effective way to proceed. We can validate the business’s ability to acquire such equipment and compare the various payment methods available.
With your business up and running you want to step up a level in terms of the volume and value you can transact. Before taking the plunge, you may wish to check whether the foundations you have built under your enterprise are sound enough to take additional loading. KFI can test the underpinnings of your current business and recommend those specific processes and procedures that need attention before additional stress is applied to them.
Up to now you might have been able to hold all the critical information necessary to run the business “in your head”. As your business evolves it will probably also become more complex. When you can no longer “juggle everything in your head” you need a management information system. This doesn’t have to be complicated, but it does need to be relevant (to you and your team members’ needs). KFI will help you design and deliver the management information you want to have available, when you need to receive it.
From day 1 you’ve been focused on the business bank account and whether the money was there to pay suppliers and employees on time. Now that your operations are expanding you need to be able to predict, with reasonable accuracy, what the bank balance will be over the coming weeks. KFI can help you create a process which will give you this visibility and enable you to quickly spot the critical matters to which you should give your attention. An appropriately designed cash management routine will help you when you’re looking for additional funding to boost the business.
When businesses get bigger it’s common to observe the risks inherent in their operation becoming more apparent. KFI will help you to catalogue these risks and assess their significance, both operationally and financially. Armed with this information, you’ll be able to take informed decisions about how you choose to manage going forward. KFI will offer its experience to cross-check your conclusions.
Most businesses reach a point when the owner has exhausted his/her capacity to finance the operations, and quite possibly the capacities of his/her friends and family. This is when the owner’s attention might turn towards external providers of finance. KFI can be a co-pilot for this leg of your journey. We can help you to prepare your request, effect introductions and support your presentations to potential investors and or lenders. We can also help you to compare the merits of the offers, of finance, when you receive them and suggest which features you might want to negotiate prior to reaching a decision.
Perhaps you can see an opportunity to enhance your business by adding a complimentary product or service offering or alternatively, by broadening the geographic reach of your existing enterprise. Frequently, the shortest route to achievement of these objectives is to buy an existing business. If that’s your conclusion, KFI can help at all stages of what can be a challenging and risky process. We can help you value the target business and guide you on those features that you should be careful to understand at an early stage of any negotiation.
There might be several reasons why you’ve asked yourself whether now is the time to consider a sale of the business you’ve built. This will be a big step and you might want to test your motives on someone who is objective and not emotionally involved. Beyond this initial decision KFI can help you prepare your business for the sale process into which it is to be placed. Getting the preliminary work done properly can only be advantageous further into the transaction.
The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly all businesses to an extent many owners and managers could not have previously imagined. Plotting a course out of the restrictions introduced by the authorities to manage the medical emergency is going to define the prospects of many, if not all, enterprises. KFI can help set that course by suggesting the proactive steps which need to be considered and the efficient order in which they might be taken.
If your business has been founded on its positioning within an integrated cross-border supply chain then whatever form the UK’s departure from the EU at the end of 2020 takes changes are on the way. KFI can assist with your adapting to the changed procedures that will govern the execution of cross-border trade beginning next year.