Vancouver Office 11th Floor 1050 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6E 3S7

T 604.714.3600 F 604.714.3669

Abbotsford Office 201- 2001 McCallum Road Abbotsford, BC V2S 3N5

T 604.557.5750 F 604.850.7399

www.manningelliott.com

When you first went into business, you had hopes and dreams about what your business should be like, how it should operate and where it would go in the future.

However, running a small-to-medium sized (SME) or family-owned business today means you are faced with an often overwhelming array of daily challenges …challenges that can take your focus away from the future, because you’re simply trying to get by today.

Are those original dreams still alive?

Our team at Manning Elliott help you make them happen.

You see, we are a very different kind of accounting firm…a RAN ONE firm.

Yes, we do provide traditional compliance services. But we don’t look at your business from just that historical perspective. Instead, we actively work with you to develop your business and improve it as it happens.

Being a RAN ONE firm allows us to combine our extensive experience working with SMEs with a suite of proprietary, cutting-edge tools and resources not available to other accounting firms. At Manning Elliott, we take you through a personalized strategic and operational

review that is comprised of three distinct stages:

1. Data Gathering and Analysis

2. Strategic and Operational Action Plans

3. Ongoing Monitoring and Implementation

1. Data Gathering and Analysis

Using a sophisticated business

analysis tool, we will work closely

with you to assess critical areas of

your business.

The information you provide will allow

us to conduct a high-level diagnostic

review of your current strategic

position and overall operational

performance.

2. A Strategic & Operational Plans

Based on the diagnostic review, we

will help you identify exactly what

needs to be done in your business to

reach your goals.

Together we will develop key action

steps plansbased directly on the

challenges you faceand a project plan

with timelines and resources to make

it happen.

3. monitoring &

supportIMPLEMENTATION

To ensure that you stay on track, we

will develop and monitor a the project

management plan and work with you

on the implementation of the action

steps required.

We will work closely with you to

ensure your goals are achieved, on-

target and on-time.

We will bring discipline and expertise

in rolling out the specific action steps

required for your business to achieve

its potential.

The RAN ONE Business DeveloperTM is a diagnostic tool that allows us to take you through each of these stages.

WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR BUSINESS TO DO FOR YOU? 1

If you’re like most business owners, you have a pretty good sense of how your business is doing right now. What is probably more difficult for you is determining where you should be going in the future, and how to get there.

Data Gathering and Analysis

The process starts with determining your objectives and reasons for being in business. Knowing what you want is very important.

We then review the external factors that affect the business, such as customers, competitors, industry, and technology.

And finally, we will take you through a series of critical questions that are related

to the following key performance areas of your business:

:

After our analysis is complete, you will receive a detailed report that reviews the strategic position of your business and its operational performance.

Vision – Clarifies your direction and the desired future position of the business.

Strategy – Obtains a picture of how you plan to reach your goals.

Structure – Examines how the business is organized.

Products and Services – Provides an overall view of the competitiveness of your products and services, and how well you manage their procurement, production and distribution.

Marketing and Sales – Examines how you take your product to market and sell it.

People – Assesses the suitability of your team, and how well you deal with people management.

Culture – Picks up on the “unwritten” rules that drive behavior in your business.

Systems and Processes – Provides information about your systems and operational procedures, and how technology supports them.

Now you’ve got your ‘health check’ and report on how you’re doing in each area of your business.

So where do you go from here?

Strategic and Operational Action Plans

You can’t get your business to a different place by following the same road. And you can’t get there without direction.

The next step in the process is to develop Strategic and Operational Action Plans, where we will use our analysis to help you identify what needs to be done in your business to reach your goals.

Together we will develop action plans based directly on the challenges you face, and taking into account the key stakeholders involved – you, your team, your customers and your suppliers.

The result is a structured, step-by-step strategic and operational project plan that outlines what needs to be done, when it will happen, and who is responsible for each action step.

Ongoing Monitoring and Implementation

Ensuring that the action plans get underway and the work gets done is the most crucial stage in the process. Our business development leaders bring discipline and expertise in rolling out the specific action steps required for each challenge, and our approach to implementation and monitoring is issue-based, workplan driven, and output oriented. We also believe in a high degree of two-way communication throughout the process

To ensure you stay on track, our Ongoing Monitoring and Implementation services include developing and monitoring a project workplan. This will allow you to drive the implementation of the plans to ensure the benefits are realized.

Included in the workplan is an Activity Log for each individual action step, showing what has been done under each initiative. This allows us to assess the extent to which each individual task is complete.

DO YOU HAVE A ROADMAP TO GET YOU THERE? 3

Business Value Enhancement

Client relationships are of critical importance, and we strive to develop long-term partnerships with our clients that are based on trust, commitment and integrity. Thus, you will find, as we work side-by-side with you to achieve your goals, that it is our people and what they bring to the table that truly differentiates us.

As your trusted business advisors, we help you grow your business for financial independence and peace of mind. In working with you, we will help you increase profits and the value of your business, and help your business rely less on your daily input.

Our business advisory program can help you gain control and direction in your business and personal financial matters.

Our People

Because we operate in your local market, we understand the challenges you face. And because we are a part of your community, we are committed to providing exceptional service. To view the qualifications of our various team members we invite you to visit our website and access each of our team members profiles individually.

While on the website please complete the Business Development Assessment Questionnaire and someone from our Business Development Unit will provide you with a complementary, private “Profit Improvement Analysis”.

Call our business development leaders for a complimentary session to discuss your business.

Howard Reich, CAPartner

11th Floor, 1050 West PenderVancouver BC V6E 3S7

604. 714. 3683 hbr@manningelliott.com

Rick Gendemann, CAPartner

201-2001 McCallum RoadAbbotsford BC V2S 3N5

604. 557. 5760 rickg@manningelliott.com

THE BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH US 4

Our Focus

At Manning Elliott we acknowledge that private business has been the cornerstone of our firm in the past and foresee it continuing to be. We are proud to be associated with so many private businesses and professionals and truly believe that your success is our success.

Our creative team of professionals will help you find practical solutions to all of your business issues so that you can focus on what you do best. With the Manning Elliott team working with you, you will see your business more clearly.

Our Membership in the RAN ONE network

RAN ONE is an international network of accounting and consulting firms with members in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe, who focus on unique needs of the small-to-medium sized and privately owned businesses. The Network gives us, and consequently you, access to a wealth of exclusive information and resources not available to other accounting and consulting firms.

The Network also brings over 700 accounting firms together, so that we can draw on the combined experience of all members. Our members work with businesses all over the world, in all industries. Thus, we have the strength and resources of a large, global organization, while still maintaining our ability to provide personalized service in our local market.

SEE YOUR BUSINESS MORE CLEARLY 5