The Quies Finance Foundations Review
Are the financial foundations in place for the business you’re trying to build?
A focused review for founders approaching an important business decision without senior finance capability in place.
Important decisions often arrive before the finance team does
As a business develops, important financial decisions often arrive before there is a CFO or senior finance team around the founder.
You may be preparing to raise capital, make a significant investment, allocate equity, enter a new market or decide what finance capability the business actually needs next.
The Finance Foundations Review helps you work out where the business stands, what matters now, what can wait and what needs to happen next.
When it may be useful
The Review is designed for founder-led businesses approaching a consequential decision, including:
- Raising debt or equity
- Deciding how much capital is actually required
- Making a significant hire, product or commercial investment
- Allocating equity to a founder, executive or key contributor
- Entering a new market or establishing another entity
- Deciding what financial capability the business needs for its next stage
What the Review examines
We look at the financial foundations relevant to the decision ahead.
- Financial position
- Cash, commitments and the resources available to the business.
- Business economics
- How the business makes money and the financial assumptions underlying growth.
- Planning and readiness
- What needs to be true financially for the next stage to work.
- Capital
- How much capital is required, what it will be used for and whether the proposed funding fits that purpose.
- Ownership and structure
- Whether ownership, equity and company structures remain appropriate for what the business is becoming.
- Finance capability
- The information, controls, systems and finance support the business actually needs now, without building infrastructure it does not yet need.
Your Finance Foundations Map
A concise map of where the business stands against the decision ahead, and a clear sequence for what comes next.
The Review also includes a 45-minute founder debrief.
What you are actually trying to decide, and its financial implications.
The foundations already in place, and the material gaps.
The small number of issues that need attention before the decision is made.
What the business does not need to build or solve yet.
A practical sequence of actions and decision points.
Finance Foundations Review
£495
Fixed fee
The Finance Foundations Review is available at a fixed fee of £495.
Implementation or further advisory work arising from the Review is separately scoped.
Request a ReviewAbout Quies Capital
Quies Capital works at the intersection of strategic finance, governance and growth. Our approach draws on more than 20 years’ senior finance experience across technology, investment management, regulated businesses and founder-led companies, including board and investor reporting, multi-entity operations and building the financial infrastructure behind growing businesses. Quies operates a principal-led model, working with specialist experts where an engagement requires additional technical or sector expertise.
What it is not
This is not a bookkeeping review, statutory audit or generic business health check.
Quies does not provide legal, tax or regulated investment advice through the Review. Where specialist legal, tax or other professional input is required, Quies identifies the issue and works with, or alongside, the appropriate expert.
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