Supporting You to Build a Sustainable and Profitable Business
to achieve your freedom and financial success.
Support that fits
Where is your business today?
Established, $500k and up
Business Advisory
Your business pays the customer well. What does it pay you?
Diagnosis-first advisory from senior advisers. We find where profit is leaking, name the projects that fix it, and stay with you while they are delivered.
- Improve cash flow and margin
- Lift the income the business pays you
- Reduce the business's dependence on you
- Grow what the business is worth
Government-funded
Self-Employment Assistance
Thinking about starting your own business? Need support with your existing business?
Government-funded support to help you plan, start and grow a viable small business with confidence. Funded by the Australian Government, Workforce Australia.
Choose from six services: workshops, business plan development, advice sessions, training, coaching and health checks.
Getting started
Business Plan Accelerator Workshop
Start your tailored business plan in two days.
Do you want to fast-track a roadmap to start or improve your business? Two days with our advisers, and you leave with the start of a tailored plan, ready for adviser review.
Why owners choose Transcend
Big-firm thinking.
Small-business understanding.
The discipline of a large advisory firm, applied at the scale of your business. We work with micro and small businesses, from the first plan to more than $3 million in turnover, and every piece of advice is shaped to the owner in front of us. Each of our advisers has run a business of their own, and Transcend Services has more than 15 years of advising and supporting businesses behind it.
Advisers who have run businesses.
Advice grounded in what actually works when the money and the risk are yours.
Made to measure.
We start with what you want the business to give you and design the work around it. Each step is a separate investment, made when you are ready.
Quick to adapt.
A small senior team, direct access to your adviser, and a written result at every step.
Start with the numbers
Don't guess what's holding your profit back.
The Profit Stocktake is a short, owner-led self-assessment. It puts a dollar figure on your Income Gap, the distance between what the business pays you now and what you need it to deliver, and scores your business across the five parts of the Transcend 5M Business Success Model.
You finish with one clear next step. No sales carousel and no menu of options.
Complimentary.
How Business Advisory works
Five steps to your Ideal Income.
Invest in each one when you are ready.
Evidence drives your next investment.
The Profit Stocktake
A short self-assessment that puts a figure on your Income Gap.
Your Income Gap in dollars, five scores and one next step.
The 5M Profit Intensive
One working day in Melbourne, built around your own numbers.
One A3 page holding up to three locked profit projects.
A written, in-depth review of the commercial engines of your business.
A Business Health Score, valuation ranges and a scored risk register.
A senior adviser drives the locked projects to their targets.
Projects delivered to KPI, and a tracker you keep.
Advisory Board Service
Retained senior advice and governance to protect the gains.
Quarterly reviews, a governance rhythm and advice between meetings.
Every step produces a written result that stands on its own. You never commit to delivery before the evidence is in.
Results, in writing
Two owners. Both thought the business was fine.
Both owners believed the business was performing. Neither had seen all eight engines reviewed together. Extracts from two completed Profit & Risk Diagnostics, with names removed and figures real but rounded.
Trade services, about $650,000
Red, and capped there.
Ten years trading. Steady revenue four years running. Busy, and profitable on the surface.
Three engines came back red. The score cannot rise above 60 while the cash position stays critical, whatever else improves.
Professional services, about $1.03m
Amber, in its best year.
Revenue up 5.8 per cent. A $115,000 profit swing, and net assets quadrupled in the year.
Two engines green and six amber. Held down by a cash buffer of 0.9 months and heavy reliance on the owner.
Client testimonials
What owners say about working with Transcend.
The Transcend information, materials and analysis are MBA quality. The Transcend point of difference provides extensive small to medium day to day business experience combined with a wealth of relevant knowledge across many sectors.
Jason FosterBusiness Advisory client
Transcend helped us step back, work on the business rather than in it, and build the systems that gave us back both time and margin.
Established business ownerProfessional services
Working together
Approved Provider & Partners
Transcend Services works in partnership with federal, state and local governments, and with chambers and community organisations, to support small businesses.
Approved Provider
Government
Business and community
Behind the advice
Meet your advisers.
The same experienced advisers deliver our government-funded program and our Business Advisory services, so the support you get is consistent at every stage.
Start here
Four minutes will tell you whether there is a conversation worth having.
The Profit Stocktake is the first piece of work we do for you, and it is complimentary. From there, each advisory step is a paid engagement, because depth of work costs something.
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