Bauencorp Consulting

Bauencorp Consulting provides a fresh, practical, hands on consulting service that gives busy finance directors an independent view of their businesses financial health. It also provides pragmatic international business advice in strategic business planning, mergers and acquisitions and interim management.

Financial health check
		Management reporting;
		Competitor analysis and tracking;
		Product or service costing;
		Credit management;
		Cashflow management;
		Business review.

Strategic business planning
		Analysis of business and benchmarking with competitors;
		Preparing alternative strategies and review market options;
		Evaluating risks and benefits;
		Analyse budgets and business plans to achieve strategic aims;
		Agreeing and implementing plan with key managers.

Mergers and acquisitions
		Define business strategy and market opportunities;
		Identifying suitable businesses to acquire to compliment strategy;
		Negotiation and valuation of acquisition;
		Tax planning and funding of deal;
		Due diligence and legal documents;
		Post acquisition merger implementation.

Interim management
		General management function during the absence of Managing Director;
		Manage finance function during absence of permanent Finance Director;
		Recruit and train staff in new procedures during periods of change;
		Review and implement out-sourcing opportunities;
		Use activity based management accounting to assist management in prioritising cost benefits;
		Create business-reporting pack that measures achievement compared to strategic goals.

Management experience

Martin Frame, the principal of Bauencorp Consulting is a Chartered Accountant who has many years' media experience at the most senior level in marketing, advertising and market research. He has been the Group Finance Director of a FTSE 250 listed company for ten years with worldwide interests in market research and acquired over 200 companies in over 40 countries. These involved funding via rights issues and syndicated bank debt and major change management.

He is a Council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.