Consulting Services

Consulting Services

    • Managing a business involves several aspects – finances, human resources, communications, marketing, acquisitions, merchandising, etc. – each one requiring specific knowledge and skills. In addition, you must manage these aspects in various contexts: expansion, sustained performance or business restart. Taillefer Lussier Gauthier offers a wide range of consulting services designed to optimize your profitability at every stage of business growth.

    • Review of Financial Statements

      Is the data in your financial statements realistic and consistent? Accounting experts look for that when reviewing your financial statements.

       

    • Forward-looking Statements

      Taillefer Lussier Gauthier experts submit your company’s financial outlook based on facts and reasonable hypotheses. Forward-looking statements give you an idea of the evolution of your business while taking into account your projects and the most probable economic speculation for a given period of time.

    • Corporate Financing

      Every corporate project requires capital. Whether it is updating computer equipment, planning a major restructuring of services and employees, expanding your factory; if you have good ideas, but lack necessary funds to implement them, Taillefer Lussier Gauthier helps you find sources of funding and negotiate the best possible terms to meet the challenges.

    • Mergers and Acquisitions Services

      Acquisitions, mergers and restructuring all require enormous capital investment. Taillefer Lussier Gauthier helps you meet these challenges by guiding you through each step. For mergers and acquisitions, we provide the following services:

      • Business evaluation
      • Strategic financing
      • Management and support for transaction operations
      • Operational restructuring and financial engineering

      Disinvestment Services 

      Selling a company is a huge deal for the owner, employees, clients and suppliers alike. Taillefer Lussier Gauthier provides a range of services in connection with the sale:

      • Evaluation of company and optimization of its value
      • Search for potential buyers
      • Negotiations and transaction support

    • Company Restart Services

      There are several ways to restart a business in decline. These include streamlining expenses, restructuring work teams, modifying management practices and rethinking marketing methods. Taillefer Lussier Gauthier will analyze your operations and suggest strategies on how to return to cruising speed.

    • Commercial Viability Study

      Is your project commercially viable? Taillefer Lussier Gauthier measures success rates and suggests strategies to reduce the risk of failure by analyzing strategic objectives, production costs, human, material and financial resources, and financing scenarios. This exercise provides projected financial statements and a budget to determine if the business will be profitable.

    • Preparation and Revision of Business Plans

      A business plan is a sort of company bible with a detailed cource of action. It outlines how the company will function operationally, financially, as well as in terms of human resources and communications. Taillefer Lussier Gauthier can develop and revise your business plan, making sure it is realistic and takes account of factors such as the economy, market trends, competition, needs, etc. In a nutshell, we make sure your plans are in harmony with your goals.

    • Improving Operations

      Is your management of operations in harmony with business growth and objectives? Is there an aspect of it that is proving less effective? Taillefer Lussier Gauthier helps your optimize operations for human resources, finance, communications, business performance, quality control and the various other services affecting or likely to affect your business operations. 

    • Strategic Cost Management

      Taillefer Lussier Gauthier analyzes the various possible methods of managing and monitoring costs before proposing the most profitable and strategic application for your business. Proper cost management allows you to determine ways to reduce expenses.

       

    • Project Risk Management

      You have developed the outline for an innovative project but can already foresee the risks inherent to its implementation. Taillefer Lussier Gauthier helps you determine the exact risks of the project, as well as to evaluate their impact. Subsequently, we work to reduce or eliminate these risks, and to control them. 

    • Financial Risk Management

      Taillefer Lussier Gauthier identifies key market, counterparty and credit risks and policies that could affect your business. We then determine your coverage needs and prepare a customized risk management policy with you.

    • Business Continuity Planning

      Would you be able to quickly restore your business functions after a disaster? Do you have a response plan that allows you to continue your activities in the event of an emergency? A blackout, a fire, a storm or a break in a water or sewer main can mean costly downtime for your company and its image; hence the importance of preparing a plan that allows you to minimize revenue losses that could prove fatal to your business.