Small Business Solutions
Working at your business location and tailoring each solution to the unique needs of your organization, our cheerful and competent staff can help you set in motion a well-oiled business machine -- enabling you to manage your business to maximum profitability each month, quarter, and year. 

Free Business Evaluation Personal contact and service is the cornerstone of our success at Follen & Company.  That is why we are pleased to provide an initial on-site meeting free of charge to discuss the current state of your bookkeeping, administration, and financial outlook.  Open it up – we can talk cash flow, financial forecasting, bookkeeping, IRS problems.  This is your meeting.

Accounting System Set-Up We are systems people.  A well designed accounting system saves the small business owner money in the long run.  How?  Data should only be handled once --  more than that is a waste of your resources.  A well-designed system means that your data is categorized correctly the first time and vital information is easy to access and understand when you want and need it.  Good system setup also helps prevent costly additional data entry or analysis at tax time.

Financial Analysis OK, so now you have up-to-date profit and loss statements and balance sheets -- who cares?  You do!!  We will work with you and train you to convert this important information into something powerful – tools for making profitable business decisions and identifying potential problems in your business. That’s making numbers work!

Financial Forecasting/Cash Flow Analysis I made $80,000?  But I don’t have $80,000!! Where did the cash go? We can show you.  We can also teach you to manage your cash and anticipate the inevitable shortages through cash flow analysis and financial forecasts that put you in charge.

Bookeeping Follen & Company provides expert bookkeeping services on-site.  This might be in your office or it might be on your kitchen table.  Whatever your situation, we can work with it.  Our goal is to give you up-to-date financial information so that you can make informed business and management decisions each day.

Office Administration We’re talking paper here.  Have you ever noticed that it multiplies like rabbits?  And the one you want always hides?  It’s a waste of your time.  Give it to us – we love organizing paper!  And that means you can go to work and do what you know how to do best.

Procedures and Policies You want your employees to learn company policies from you – not another employee.  A good employee handbook makes things clear and uniform for everyone, boosting efficiency and morale. Follen & Company will assist you in putting together an company handbook that will evolve with your business. Procedures manuals are more job specific than the Company Handbook.  Follen & Company is experienced in writing procedure manuals for office and bookkeeping personnel.  Time IS money – don’t waste it.

Education Education Courses We call it the “Build a Better” curriculum.  Our first course Build a Better Business Owner focuses on you.  In this course you’ll learn what your bookkeeper is doing for you and how to use the information they generate as a tool for success.  Our second course Build a Better Bookkeeper  focuses on and how to sharpen your bookkeeper ’s skills to create the best partnership between bookkeeper and owner.

Professional Support Network Follen & Company is good, great even.  But we can’t do everything.  We can refer you to professionals who specialize in specific solutions for your growing business.  When you need help with human resource management, insurance, marketing communications, employment law, banking and business loans, or advanced business coaching, we know some of the best!

On-Site Training If it is easier for your bookkeeper and/or you the owner to be tutored at your business site, then we’ll do it. Learn about specific operations and concepts that are unique for you.