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As part of this program, the Société d'aide au développement de la collectivité (SADC) Lac-Saint-Jean-Est prepares business managers to become autonomous in the whole process of cost analysis.

TWO-STAGE PROGRAM :

STEP 1

Diagnosis of financial management processes and systems

Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the finance function process. The objectives of this analysis are as follows.

• Draw up a diagram of current systems (summary analysis) ;
• Establish the company's current needs and consider the organization's growth potential;
• Assess the ability or inability of existing systems and systems under consideration by management to meet current and future needs;
• Determine the extent of systems requiring change or upgrade (short, medium and long term);
• Estimate a realistic budget for an upgrade or change.

STEP II

Management coaching (costing and financial management)

The coaching intervention will enable the manager to perfect his management skills in understanding and analyzing his profitability, and in making strategic decisions. The aim is to provide the manager with a structured working tool to describe and understand the sales pricing process. The aim is also to make him autonomous throughout the cost analysis process, from profitability analysis to the implementation of performance indicators, including the monitoring of these indicators, the setting of selling prices by product and by customer, and strategic decision-making.

For companies :

• Who do not have a financial controller within the company;
• For small business owner-managers only;
• Who undertakes to provide SADC with all the necessary information to enable professionals to prepare themselves properly.

Objectives :

• Help promoters understand their costs and become autonomous in analyzing this data (supporting table);
• Equip promoters to ensure the profitability of their activities.

Advantages :

• Increase bid accuracy;
• Analyze profitability by customer and product, based on specific costs and the right rates (direct labor rates, manufacturing overheads by department, administrative and selling expense rates);
• Set up the calculation of simple performance indicators;
• Get the basics of a budgeting process;
• Financially supported by the Société d'aide au développement de la collectivité (SADC) Lac-Saint-Jean-Est.

Context

Many companies don't have the financial means to assign a specific human resource to marketing operations management.

More often than not, the owner-managers of these companies are tossed around by suppliers of marketing products, without any clear idea of their real needs. Lacking an adequate and realistic marketing strategy, they opt for actions that may be inadequate to their real needs.

This program aims to tackle the issues raised in this context head-on.

As part of its "Marketing Management Support Program", the Société d'aide au développement de la collectivité (SADC) Lac-Saint-Jean-Est wishes to support companies that do not have the necessary human resources, in the development and implementation of a marketing strategy and action plan tailored to their reality and capabilities. There are four areas of intervention:

1. Meeting between the consultant and the person designated by the company;
2. Marketing diagnostic overview;
3. Support for the design of an action plan;
4. Support in implementing the action plan.

For companies :

• Do not have a formal, written marketing management policy;
• Which identify a person responsible for marketing within the company, if not the owner-manager himself;
• Located in the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est region.

Objectives :

• Equip owner-managers with basic marketing management concepts and practices to encourage them to gradually implement quality marketing management;
• Develop the owner-manager's autonomy with regard to newly acquired knowledge, while respecting his/her priorities and abilities.

Benefits for the company :

• Supported by consultants;
• Tailored and personalized to the company;
• Carried out according to the owner-manager's priorities and deadlines, as well as the company's financial and human capacities;
• The program can be withdrawn at any time;
• Financially supported by the Société d'aide au développement de la collectivité (SADC) Lac-Saint-Jean-Est.

The Société d'aide au développement de la collectivité (SADC) Lac-Saint-Jean-Est has developed a "proximity" approach with the companies it helps financially. Regular contact and analysis of their data enable us to closely monitor their progress, advise them and support them in their various projects. In addition, we have set up specific support programs for business managers, aimed at both client and non-client companies.