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Is your business financially freewheeling?
We provide the cogs your business needs to maintain control.
Running a business is a lot like riding a bicycle. You need to keep moving to maintain your balance. But if you want to grow and succeed, you need a solid financial strategy when it matters.
Freewheeling may get you places, but only on the downhills or with a bit of built-up momentum. But what happens when you reach a rocky stretch? Do you have a robust enough financial plan to tackle the hill climbs?
We understand that your primary focus is likely on day-to-day operations, understanding your customers’ needs, and delivering high-quality products and services.
Counting sheep instead of profit?
We help you create a robust financial plan so you can sleep well at night.
A solid financial plan is essential for any business owner. It guides your day-to-day decision-making, and by comparing forecasts with actual results, you’ll gain valuable insights into your business's overall financial health and efficiency. Even a solo-run company should have a financial plan in place.
Your financial plan will help you to:
Plan your budget
Does your business experience seasonal revenue fluctuations? A financial plan helps you manage cash flow between periods of plenty and when cash is less abundant.
Manage your cash
Keeping a tight control on expenditure when revenue’s low will help you sleep better at night. Additionally, a cash cushion will ensure you can capitalise on opportunities as they arise.
Plan for the long-term
A financial plan focused on the future helps you anticipate growth-related expenses and the actions needed to stay ahead of competitors. It also ensures that business owners monitor their goals and wealth-creation strategies.
Spot trends
A well-considered financial plan will help you see what works and what doesn’t. Did a marketing campaign pay off in increased sales? Did you achieve the return on investment you expected? How’s a new product or service performing during your off-season?
Conserve cash
Do you know which expenses to prioritise? Which will bring the most significant increase in revenue or productivity? Conserving resources and allocating capital effectively require a solid financial plan.
Measure progress
Getting caught up in day-to-day operational activities can keep you from noticing gradual growth. But by measuring forecasts against actuals and your increasing bank balance, you’ll see your success (or warning signs) at a glance.
About Us
Are you running beside your bicycle?
Need help to stop and jump onto the saddle?
At Cobus Kritzinger CA(SA) Management Consultants, we help you become a visionary leader by building solid foundations on reputable, scalable systems and processes that ensure your business operates at peak financial performance.
We help you understand the scenarios that can affect your business’s financial health. We partner with you to provide a fresh, independent viewpoint and rigorous analysis with a steadfast commitment to your business’s growth.
We provide professional accounting, financial management and analysis, and strategic advisory and consulting services, ensuring your business remains legally compliant. Because numbers tell a story – let us help you write your business’s success story.
If you want to be firmly in the driving seat, plotting your growth strategy, call Cobus Kritzinger, CA(SA), Management Consultants today for a free consultation. We believe no one should run a business with numbers that don’t help it grow.
We are
focussed on
ADDING VALUE
Relationships
The foundation of all work done for our clients starts with a personal relationship with each and every client.
Driven
We are driven, proactive, and focused on the future of our clients. But we do it NOW. From there, our positioning statement:
the future - now
Growth
We work with our clients to help them grow and develop.
Advice
Our company is managed by forward thinking leaders with a vision. We firmly believe that every client is entitled to base their decisions on accurate information, along with having sound and effective advice.
Informed
We pride ourselves on delivering accurate and relevant information to our clients when and how they need it.
Proactive
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Anticipating any potential problems, creatively offering timely solutions.
Our Team
At the heart of our firm is a dedicated team to guide clients and colleagues with vision, integrity, and expertise.
They bring together years of experience, diverse skills, and a shared commitment to excellence.
Director
With strong leadership, we continue to build a culture of trust, innovation, and accountability - ensuring that every decision we make supports both the long-term growth of our clients and the sustainable success of our firm.
Cobus Kritzinger
Cobus Kritzinger CA (SA) RA
I’ve always been involved in sports of some kind. At school, it was rugby and athletics, and although I never reached top-level awards, I always performed well.
Later, I started running, including the Comrades, Two Oceans, and many others that took me all around South Africa. The relationships and memories of this time are like trophies safely stored in a cupboard, but the life lessons I gained are the principles I live by.
I ran until an old ankle injury resurfaced and, to maintain the balance I enjoy between sport, family and my career, I needed to find a new sport. I saw mountain biking.
Now, 20-odd years later and with several successful races under my belt –Cape Epic, Wines-2-Whales, Sani-2-Sea, Trans-Baviaans and the Karoo-2-Coast to name a few – mountain biking provides me with memories, an opportunity to do some analytical thinking, and time to test my bicycle, myself and my environment. I’ve learned countless life lessons on my bike.
These lessons include pushing boundaries to a place I didn’t think I’d get to, acknowledging my current circumstances and how I deal with them, and efficiencies and productivity, such as how to reduce drag and capitalise on the momentum. Interestingly, these are qualities every business owner should also consider.
Running your own business has much in common with mountain biking – how to approach an uphill, the dangers of downhills, the importance of a buddy for the tough times, and coping with your ‘bike’ (staff, equipment, and capital) to maximise performance.
It’s also about recognising when circumstances change and shifting gear accordingly.
As a chartered accountant for more than 30 years and having served on the national directorship of two audit firms (PKF 1994 – 2012 and Mazars 2013 – 2016), I’ve realised that many problems are the same for all businesses.
The number of zeros in your turnover may differ, but the principles remain the same.
Because no two businesses are alike, it helps to have an external view – someone to help you identify problem areas in your business, provide a safe sounding board for finding solutions, and strategise new options and benchmark better performance.
Stop! Get your systems in place so that you can stop running.
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Our firm is associated with The Core Group, an association of independent professionals.
We are independent but practice in association with one another, utilising The Core Service Companies to empower us to render a wide variety of specialised services to local clients.
Although all are associated under The Core Group identity, we remain independent and in control of our own firm regarding ownership and management.
Being Core Associated, we have access to:
126
Branches nationwide
397
Specialists in all areas
1 716
Employees securing capacity
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Content clients
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Your gateway to excellence in professional advisory services.
Driven by knowledge.
Backed by experience.
Power in partnership, strength in unity.
Committed to quality, governed by integrity.
Our Values
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We are leaders in both our industry and our local communities.
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We operate with a sense of urgency and discipline.
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We do the right thing all of the time.
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We are responsible for our impact on the environment.
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We are the owners of our actions and decisions.
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We share our views and ideas openly.
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We are passionate about delivering an exceptional stakeholder experience.
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We are team players in everything we do.
There is a critical need for alignment between personal and organisational values, as mistakes can occur when misalignment exists.
Our Vision
Our VISION defines the way our organisation will look in the FUTURE.
The FUTURE - To be seen and experienced as Globally Trusted Professionals.
Global
Inspires us to grow/expand.
Trusted
Inspires us to build trusting relationships with all our stakeholders based on honesty, efficiency, accountability, and mutual respect.
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Stakeholders
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All entities that can affect or be affected by the organisation's actions, objectives and policies.
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They are our creditors, member firm directors, service company directors, employees, government (and its agencies), owners (shareholders), suppliers, unions, and the community from which the business draws its resources.
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Professional
Inspires all of us to deliver a quality service/product in a manner as defined by our stakeholders.
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It does not refer to professional bodies or professional career types. It relates to HOW we interact with our stakeholders.
Vision is a long-term view describing the goals of the organisation.
Our vision statement helps to drive decisions and goals in our company.
Our Mission
Our MISSION defines our purpose and why we exist.
We CREATE diverse solutions that increase our stakeholders' profits, business value, and personal wealth.
We do this through a single, CORE relationship – NOW.
Create
We develop services through a continuous process, leaving something behind, and are accountable for what we create.
Divers
Many, various, unlimited.
Solutions
Plural, services, answers, actions, products.
Stakeholders
Everybody is affected by our business operations. (suppliers, clients, staff, SARS, the community, etc.)
Single
One.
CORE
Reiterate the brand name, central, nucleus, pivot point.
Relationship
The emotional link between two or more parties.
Our mission statement provides the details of what is done and answers the question:
“How do we do what we do?”.
Our Workplace Behaviour
Working with me (or any of my colleagues) as a firm representative, you can expect the following:
Honesty:
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I do not lie.
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I share my views and ideas without the fear of prejudice and without disrespecting the opinions and rights of others.
Efficiency:
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I stick to deadlines.
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I have a clean and neat desk.
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I return a stakeholder’s call/email/SMS within 24 hours.
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I complete tasks that are allocated to me.
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I prepare properly for formal interactions with stakeholders.
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I proactively follow up on outstanding tasks and assignments.
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I update my skills and knowledge to remain not only relevant but abreast.
Mutual respect for all stakeholders
At the office:
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I am on time.
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I park in my allocated parking space.
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I greet my colleagues.
In meetings:
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I allow others the freedom to express themselves without interrupting them.
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I focus on the agenda at hand and do not communicate with external parties.
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I do not do any other work that is outside the scope of the meeting.
In general:
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I do not use gestures, language, or crude and disrespectful comments.
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I conserve firm and natural resources and limit wastage.
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I dress in a manner that is equal to what is professionally expected by my stakeholders.
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I use proper language when communicating with my stakeholders.
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I use a tone of voice that is acceptable to all my stakeholders.
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I empower and guide. I do not reprimand and belittle stakeholders in public or behind closed doors.
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I do not use intimidating behaviour, like slamming doors and throwing objects.
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I trust my stakeholders. I do not excessively and unreasonably monitor their responsibilities.
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I address a conflict situation with the party concerned in a professional manner that is equal to those above before approaching a third party.
Accountability Statement
I am accountable for all my actions. I will take corrective measures before the deadline if I cannot deliver on my commitment to the Workplace Behaviour Statement.
I will communicate this to the relevant stakeholders within a timeframe that is acceptable to them.
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