Blackstone Franks is a progressive firm of chartered accountants based in the City of London.
Recognising that company agility and adaptability is key to survival and growth, it has now added value network analysis (VNA) to its portfolio of diagnostic and supporting services. One development is to add VNA to the Activity Review Chart, shown below, which can be used in conversation with SME owners when reviewing their current and future needs.
The firm is no stranger to value networks. It played a leading role in helping visualise the roles played by participants in grooming businesses for sale- demonstrating that it is not a linear process, but one of many interactions in a complex web of inter-relationships. An article on that is here.
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Founded in 1976, Blackstone Franks enjoys a strong reputation both within and without the accountancy profession. It offers:
i) Innovation. Since inception, Blackstone Franks has been at the forefront of developments in the financial world, helping clients to create, conserve and realise their wealth, including pioneering the management buy-out movement in the early 1980's
ii) A very strong technical capacity. For example, in taxation, partner Robert Maas is one of the leading UK practitioners. Former Chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Technical Tax Committee, and author of numerous standard publications, he is one of the foremost authorities on UK tax.
You can read more about Blackstone Franks here, and the use of an earlier version of the Activity Review Chart..ABOUT BLACKSTONE FRANKS v3.pdf
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But we are thinking about using it as a predictive model for investment purposes.
From a banking perspective, there is also some work on proposals to channel so called "free money" to fund investment in building energy conservation using that particular design/manufacturing/contracting ecosystem. An HM Treasury department likes it, but somewhat impotent!
Regards, David