Altico's advisory services complement our business management solutions and provide an avenue for strategic input to your financial and IT initiatives and decisions, while you continue to focus on and achieve your corporate objectives.  
 
Outsourced Financial Services

Altico's team of seasoned business experts (CFOs, CEOs, and CPAs) is available to support our clients' new and existing initiatives.  We have a long history of working with Microsoft's accounting applications specifically, and deep experience in accounting procedures and best practices in general.  As our clients work tirelessly to establish, maintain, and grow their businesses, the Altico team is available to spearhead and support initiatives of all sizes.  Altico offers the experienced financial leadership required to analyze business opportunities, chart an effective financial strategy, and achieve the stated objectives. Our goal is to augment your team and allow you to stay focused on the business at hand. 

Business and IT Stratgegy Alignment

Experience has taught us how important it is to align IT decisions with the overall strategy of a business.  Maximizing IT investments is critical to achieving the goals of the organization.  The most cost effective solution is the one that will scale and grow your business, so that you don't have to purchase a new system when your company expands. Altico will work with you to define your business and IT strategies by answering the following key questions:

• Are IT and business aligned?
• Are you investing in the right areas to maximize your returns?
• Have you assessed the associated risks and rewards?
• How aggressive do you need to be with these decisions?
• Once a decision is made, do you have an execution strategy in place and a plan for measuring the progress and results of your initiative against your expectations? 

Software Selection
Selecting a software system on which to run your business is a daunting, time consuming, resource intensive, even confusing task.  It makes sense to seek expert advice and guidance when you're about to make a major change to and significant investment in a new accounting software solution or CRM system.  Given the potential impact on your business, this is a decision that you absolutely want to get right the first time.  Altico will independently review and document your current processes and future requirements.  We will contact the appropriate vendors, walk through the software demonstrations with you, and make carefully considered recommendations.  We'll help you choose a product and a partner to best meet your tangible and intangible needs.  Working with Altico means that you can continue to focus on your core business throughout the software selection process.

Business Analytics                                       

The right solution is one that allows you to access ALL of the critical information required to run your company and make business decisions in a timely manner.  If you need help extracting and formatting that data to your specifications, Altico can help.  Using industry standard reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and analytical tools (such as FRx and Crystal), we'll provide you with the information you need in the format preferred by each user.  We can design and build the reports required to make your job easier and more efficient.