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NEVER FEEL IN THE DARK AGAIN

As the meaning behind our name suggests, at Lucent, we illuminate the financial facts a business owner needs to operate successfully.
  • Lucent’s Virtual CFO Services Include:
  • Strategic planning and goal setting
  • KPI set up, monitoring and reporting
  • Financial Reporting for Management and Boards
  • Cash flow Management
  • Budgets and cash-flow forecasts
  • Period meetings with a qualified CFO
  • Integrated tax planning and advice
  • Exit planning and strategies

Only when Managing Directors and CEOs of growing professional service businesses have control of their numbers, can they create the strategies that drive revenue, cash flow and, of course, profit.

Whether you’re in a growth phase, scaling up, preparing for sale or just ticking along – having accurate and reliable financial information at your fingertips is critical.

Combining invaluable experience and proven strategies with world-leading accountancy software tools, our Virtual CFO team will work with you and your management team to introduce external accountability and discipline into your structure.

As your Virtual CFO, it’s our job to ensure you have all the information you need to stay on track to achieving your goals. Because it’s only when you have the big picture, that you can make the big decisions.

The Key Benefits Of Lucent’s CFO Advice

Greater Insights

Our one-page dashboard report will get you the critical financial insights you need to manage your business and make effective decisions each month without trawling through pages and pages of reports that make absolutely no sense.

Bigger Profits

Profit is critical for the long term survival of any business. We help you understand what’s really driving profit in your business and pinpoint areas where you may be “leaking” profits so you can take action before it’s too late.
Better Cash Flow

Better Cash Flow

A solid understanding of your cash flow cycle is essential, especially if you are planning an expansion. We’ll help you forecast your cash flow requirements and implement cash management strategies that facilitate growth and ensure you don’t run out of cash.

Accelerate Growth

Proactive reporting and forecasting, combined with the support and advice of a qualified CFO, will ensure you are fully informed and have complete control over steering your business to higher levels of profitability and growth.

Why Choose Us

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Who We Are Not
Steeped in tradition. Old school.
Number Crunchers.
we make business easier for you
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We bring Accounts and HR
together under one roof.
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Proactive
Forewarned = Good business decisions
= Business Success.

Xero App add ons to make accounting even easier!

It’s no secret we love high-performance software: the best tools to help streamline your business and give you back the time & finance resources better spent elsewhere. We choose to implement the following App add ons for the majority of our clients to help process Accounts Payable.

Dext Prepare (formerly Receipt Bank) helps you prepare bills and receipts automatically for your finance team,  to free you up to focus on the things you got into business for. 

Dext Prepare is a platform used to manage the receipts, invoices, and other documents that businesses depend on to keep accurate, secure financial records. You can capture and upload your bills and receipts using:

  • The camera on your mobile phone
  • Email
  • Documents on your computer
  • Automatically fetching documents from online platforms

It processes your receipts for you, automatically fetches, categorise and publishes financial data to Xero. 

ApprovalMax extends the online accounting platform Xero with approval-driven financial controls for accounts payable and accounts receivable. It replaces paper- and email-based approval processes with fully automated approval workflows for your whole team. It ensures spend controls and regulatory compliance for both internal accounting and outsourced financial services. 

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