ABOUT US

Talbot Analysis is a professional consulting firm delivering expert outcomes for our clients in the provision of:

  1. Business Analysis services
  2. Business Software product solutions

Talbot Analysis is a small business itself based in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of Australia.  We focus on providing effective yet affordable business analysis and software solutions to small business owners and their managers and employees.

We specialise currently in the following business software:

  • QuickBooks® – bookkeeping software consulting
  • WordPress® – for simple and affordable website design
  • Microsoft Excel®  – business analysis and advanced analytics

For QuickBooks® and WordPress® we provide setup, training and ongoing support.

In addition, Talbot Analysis provides business analysis consulting to business owners and managers to facilitate greater decision-making insight in business strategy, processes, performance reporting and planning.

Our Client Focus

Our client focus is small business owners outside the cities, particularly:

  • Small, Micro and Startup Businesses
  • Rural & Remote Businesses
  • Small & Family Agribusinesses
  • Home-based Businesses (like ours)
  • Trade professionals
  • Retail and hospitality business owners

We consult to rural based accounting firms, whose small business clients require specialist business analysis consulting and guidance on small business software.

Our Expertise

We specialise in advising on small business performance management and technical advice and training on our preferred selection of business software to support business owners.

This particularly includes:

  • Evaluation guidance on preferred bookkeeping software to match client needs
  • Operational and financial performance reporting
  • Operational and financial performance analysis plus analysis templates
  • Management decision making support software tools
  • Business planning, budgeting and forecasting
  • Preferred software supply, configuration, training and ongoing support
  • Website software evaluation, configuration, management and admin training
  • Access to expert software technicians for specialist/advanced solution needs and for on-hand software troubleshooting

Our twenty years’ hands-on experience with the finance departments and software of a number of big city corporations and governments, has embellished Talbot Analysis with a range and depth of business analysis and software knowledge to enable us to provide comparable operating and planning insights not readily available to small and rural business.

For us it’s all about en-arming small business owners with effective management decision making skills and software tools (like the ones enjoyed by big business but without the high expense) to achieve competitive advantage.

Survival:  “Out Bush since you’ve got to be a Jack or Jill of all trades, it can be reassuring to know you have a software master as backup on standby.” – Steven

Steven’s recent ancestors were wheat farmers and sheep graziers but forced to emigrate during the 1840s famine, then again forced to sell up after his grandfather died suddenly of a stroke in 1942, leaving his grandmother with an eight year old – Steven’s father.  Else Steven would have been on the land.

Talbot Analysis has over twenty years’ extensive experience in management accountancy and business analysis ranging from large corporations to small business since the early 1990s out of operational logistics.   We have qualifications and experience in corporate administration, financial accounting, management accounting, systems accounting, business analysis, financial analytics, database development and software functional consulting.

Principal and Business Analyst, Steven, also holds a Degree in Business Management (Monash), Diploma in Project Management (New England), is a IBM Certified Developer, a QuickBooks Pro-Advisor, is certified in Advance Excel VBA and is a member of the Project Management Institute and the International Institute of Business Analysts.

 

 

We’re about enabling business owners with better business insight.