Business Consulting Services in Winnipeg — Strategic Planning and Financial Advisory

Warkentin Business Solutions Inc. brings over 35 years of combined banking and corporate finance experience directly to your business planning, delivering the lender relationships and analytical frameworks that separate thriving enterprises from those perpetually struggling. Over the years, we have assisted many people in starting up new ventures and companies and helped them along the way to become successful business owners through regular consultations and analysis of year-to-date financial results. In addition to the new start-ups, we have the expertise to analyze your current financial position with your company’s goals and to develop a business plan in achieving those goals. We have assisted many corporations and private entities in obtaining hundreds of Millions of dollars of expansion, acquisition and development funding. Our expertise and years of experience working in the commercial financial sector results in close relationships with major banks and credit unions. 

Our business consulting integrates with bookkeeping and accounting services, ensuring strategic recommendations align with your actual financial position rather than assumptions. This coordination means growth strategies are grounded in real numbers, financing applications reflect current performance, and operational decisions consider tax implications before implementation.

Strategic Business Services Leveraging Banking Expertise

Launch and Structure New Ventures – Entrepreneurs make critical early decisions affecting long-term success. Should you operate as sole proprietor accepting unlimited liability, form partnerships, or incorporate immediately despite additional costs? Each structure creates different tax obligations, liability exposure, and future flexibility. We analyze your situation considering industry risks, growth timeline, and personal finances, recommending structures that protect assets while positioning you advantageously. Our startup work extends into market analysis, capital requirement calculations, and first-year projections preventing the undercapitalization killing most new ventures.

Navigate Corporate Incorporation – Incorporating transforms your business into separate legal entity requiring formal governance. We manage complete incorporation including name registration, articles drafting, director resolutions, minute book establishment, and shareholder agreements. These foundational documents determine how your corporation operates, distributes profits, and handles ownership—getting them right initially prevents expensive legal problems emerging years later.

Secure Business Financing Through Banking Relationships – Decades in commercial banking provide a deep understanding of what credit committees evaluate. We prepare comprehensive financing packages including business plans, financial projections, collateral documentation, and repayment schedules in formats lenders expect. Our established relationships with major Manitoba banks and credit unions give applications immediate credibility. This combination has secured hundreds of millions in expansion financing and acquisition funding for businesses across diverse industries.

Plan Multi-Year Succession Strategies – Business owners eventually exit through sale, family transfer, or wind-down. Succession without advance planning results in reduced sale values, unexpected tax burdens, and operational disruption. We develop multi-year roadmaps addressing valuation optimization, tax-efficient ownership transfers, key employee retention, and timing strategies maximizing after-tax proceeds while ensuring business continuity.

Manage Cash Flow Preventing Crises – Profitable businesses frequently fail from cash flow problems rather than operational losses. We build projection models incorporating your specific patterns, identifying cash shortage periods before they arrive and developing strategies preventing situations where you can’t meet payroll or vendor obligations despite strong accounting profitability.

Why Banking Experience Transforms Business Consulting

Unlike consultants offering generic advice, our decades in commercial banking created deep expertise directly impacting business success. We understand exactly what lenders require because we’ve sat on credit committees evaluating applications. We recognize realistic projections versus optimistic fantasies because we’ve seen which businesses succeed and which fail. This banking perspective delivers practical guidance based on how business actually works rather than theoretical frameworks.

Our approach combines strategic thinking with operational reality. Growth strategies consider not just market opportunities but capital requirements and financing availability. Succession plans account for tax implications alongside valuation. Expansion recommendations weigh return potential against execution risk and capital deployment efficiency.

Begin Business Consulting Tailored to Your Growth Stage

Whether validating a startup concept, planning expansion, preparing financing applications, or developing succession strategies, our business consulting addresses your specific situation. The banking relationships, financial analysis capability, and operational experience we bring significantly improve decision quality and execution success.

Reach out to discuss how our combined banking, finance, and business consulting expertise can support your Manitoba business objectives. We’ll assess where you are today, clarify where you want to go, and develop practical roadmaps getting you there efficiently.