As a business, you need to identify the value you can provide to your customers and ensure your processes are built so customers come first.  This can be a daunting task, but understanding business process improvement, how to identify and eliminate wasteful activities and focus on high value activities is crucial to meeting customer expectations and running an efficient business.  

In this session, you will learn: 
                
The concept of process improvement and how it applies to your business
Specific tools that can be used to implement process improvement within your business
How to define value for your customers
How to capture your current state of processes and develop future state 
How to improve your business processes
Meet Your Facilitator: 

Jen Hayes is a Partner with MNP’s Consulting group in Toronto. Drawing on more than 15 years of consulting experience, and 10 years in the manufacturing and technology sectors, Jen helps her clients deliver their products and services more efficiently and effectively. Through business planning, expansion and change, Jen helps her clients – ranging from start-ups to large organizations – design business models and processes to position them for growth and expansion. 

            
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Financial statements provide farmers with insight into the financial position and performance of farm business. Accurate records and financial statements are the foundation material required to analyze the financial condition and trends of your operation and can be benchmarked against other similar operations. This webinar is designed to help you better understand key concepts in financial statements and focusses on cashflow, debt, equity, profit and taxes. 

In this session, you will learn: 
                
The purpose of a balance sheet
How to use the income statement to determine how your farm is performing
How money flows through a farm 
How debt and equity are measured
Meet Your Facilitator:

Kelly Bromm BSA, is a Farm Management Consultant with MNP’s Agriculture Services group in the Saskatoon office. Working with producers, agri-business, government and other agricultural agencies, Kelly delivers advice and solutions tailored to each client’s unique situation and goals. Originally from a farming community in North Eastern Saskatchewan, Kelly grew up on a grain and livestock family farm where he was actively involved in all aspects. He went on to obtain his degree in Agriculture Economics at the University of Saskatchewan and began a 24 year career working in the Agriculture Financial Lending Industry while continuing to be involved in the family farm until 2011 when his parents retired. Kelly draws on more than 24 years of experience to develop and implement solutions to the wide range of issues that today’s farmers face. He assists with strategic planning, financial management, succession planning, production economics and human resources, and connects clients with the firm’s broad-based expertise when they are experiencing specific challenges

            
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As a small business owner, your business and personal lives are intertwined.  As such, it is important to understand how taxation works and where there are opportunities to effectively structure your business to allow for risk management and minimization of taxes.

This session will:
                
Provide participants with an overview of taxation (both personal and corporate) 
Outline basic reporting requirements (the basis for taxation and initial tax planning issues)
Address year-end determination including dividends versus bonus which form the basis for shareholder/owner remuneration
Outline expense deductibility and basic tax planning strategies
Meet Your Facilitator:

Rebecca Ottmann has worked at MNP for seven years and is a Manager on the Private Enterprise team in Saskatoon. Rebecca works primarily with small and medium sized owner-managed business, with a focus in groups and professional corporations and their needs. Services include preparing corporate financial statements and tax returns and providing general business consulting services.

            
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