At Pitcher Partners, we have established a team of highly skilled practitioners with a mixture of high academic achievement and long term commercial industry experience. The Business Consulting group provides Business Advice to a wide range of special projects requiring the depth of academic knowledge and industry "hands on" experience.

Our Business Consulting group is located within the firm's Business Advisory division and offers the following specialist services:

• Business Planning, strategy, growth, and competitiveness
• Costing systems and complex modelling
• Organisational reviews and business process improvement
• Valuations and forensic accounting
• Business sales and acquisitions
• Commercial negotiations
• General 'fix' it services.

The following Business Consulting services have been identified specifically for our CPN members.

Business Planning, strategy, growth and competitiveness are essential parts of any business and our advice is given in understandable profit-focussed terms. Our Business Consulting team has experience providing advice on strategic business plans for large business acquisitions, and mentoring a new product launch for small to medium businesses.

If you or your client needs help in understanding their costing basis for bottom line improvement, the Business Consulting group is available to help. The Business Consulting group have held high level roles within manufacturing organisations and can assist with complex models, costing templates for industry, and small business cost reduction.

Large and small businesses can often benefit from an independent view from the outside. Our Business Consulting group has extensive experience carrying out organisational reviews and process improvement assignments for the full range of business sizes and structures, servicing large household name public companies to small business with five employees.

Suffering financial loss in any form or being subject to litigation has dramatic consequences for both the people and businesses involved. Pitcher Partners' Forensic and Valuation group understand this, so we do not just "crunch the numbers" we will partner you or your clients through every aspect of the process, from the impact on employees and customers, through the investigations and Court proceedings, to the structuring of the tax recovery.

The Forensic and Valuation group can provide you and your clients with specialist advice and assessments in Economic Loss, Valuations, Forensic Investigations, IT Fraud, Solvency, and Expert Evidence.

Pitcher Partners' Business Consulting group has been involved in the sale and acquisition of a range of small to medium businesses and have the expertise to advise you or your clients. The group also works closely with businesses formulating exit strategies.

Pitcher Partners has an extensive understanding and knowledge of working with Government departments and have negotiated on behalf of a whole industry, contracts totalling $30 billion. If you or your clients regularly deal with government, Pitcher Partners' understanding of the public sector may help you achieve the results you require.

Our Business Consulting group often performs temporary financial controller roles or general 'fix-it roles', with the emphasis on finance or organisational structure.

Due to the diverse experience our team has acquired through a range of management roles in industry and commerce, they not only make recommendations but, if required, actually project control or implement the recommendations.

Pitcher Partners is recognised Australia-wide as experts in this field and consult to the Bus Association of Victoria, Bus and Coach Association of NSW, Queensland Bus Industry Council, Tasmanian Bus Association and a number of operators from Darwin to Perth and the entire eastern seaboard.