About Mark Ball
Finance should help you run the business, not just report on it.
I've spent my career working with businesses and numbers, but I've never believed that accounting should stop at producing a set of accounts.
My background includes time working in manufacturing and on the factory floor before accountancy. That experience has stayed with me.
If a margin has fallen, I want to know why.
If labour costs have increased, I want to understand what's happening operationally.
If one contract is losing money, I want to identify it before three more contracts are priced the same way.
That's the approach I now bring to owner-managed businesses as a Fractional Finance Director.
I work alongside your existing bookkeeper and accountant, giving you the financial insight and challenge you'd expect from a Finance Director — without employing one full-time.
In four lines
Your bookkeeper records what happened.
Your accountant makes sure you're compliant.
I help you understand why it happened and what to do next.
And I work with both of them to do it.
Let's talk about your business
If your accounts tell you what happened but don't help you decide what to do next, let's have a conversation.
No presentation. No hard sell. Just a discussion about your business, the numbers you currently have and the questions you'd like them to answer.