On its own
Already running a system, or about to? We train you and your team to use it well, as a focused piece of work.
Academy
The software arrived. The habit did not.
The new system went in, yet the old spreadsheet is still open, and what the person who set it up knew left when they did. Hands-on training turns the system into everyday habit, so you and your team run it yourselves. For owner-led businesses in Canada and Nigeria, led by practitioners who are also college faculty.
- Post a supplier bill
- On your own
- Match the bank feed
- On your own
- Follow up overdue invoices
- With us
- Close the month
- With us
- Read the cash report
- See it
Next step: your team closes the month on its own.
From watching to running it yourself.
The Academy teaches the software and systems your business runs on, including the reporting and workflows we set up with you. Each module moves through three stages.
01
We lead
See it
We walk through the system with you, screen by screen, and tie each step to a decision you already make.
02
Together
Use it with us beside you
Your team does the real work while we work alongside, so questions are answered in the moment, not after a mistake.
03
You lead
Run it yourself
Your team runs it on its own, with the steps written down, and the know-how stays in your business.
Who it is for
You, the owner
What the system tells you, and which decision each report supports.
Who it is for
Your team
The everyday steps, done the same way whoever is at the desk.
Take it on its own, or with the work we do for you.
Either way, the training comes in short, practical modules shaped around the systems you run.
With an engagement
Working with us on Advisory or Automation? Training can be scoped into the same engagement, so you run what we set up with you.
Stratborne Academy delivers short, modular professional development. It is not a registered private career college.
What stays with you after we leave.
Training is done when your team no longer needs us beside them.
A team that runs the system. The work gets done the same way on a busy day as on a quiet one.
Steps written for your business. Short, plain-language guides for the jobs your team does most.
Reports you can read. You know what each one says and what to do next.
Know-how that belongs to you. It stays when a staff member moves on, and when our work together ends.
Who you learn from
You learn from practitioners: people who do this work with owner-led businesses and also teach it.
Each module is built around the systems your team runs, and explained so it is understood, not just shown.
Led by a Chartered Professional Accountant: CPA, FCCA, FCA, FCTI.
What you can count on
Plain language first.
Every figure comes with what it means for you. If we cannot say it plainly, we keep working until we can.
Straight talk, on your side.
We say the hard thing plainly, then stay beside you to fix it.
One clear next step.
Every conversation ends with a decision you can act on, not a list of options.
Know-how you keep.
We measure an engagement by what your team can do after we leave.
Advisory engagements are distinct from audit and tax-filing services.
Make the system yours.
Tell us which system your team runs, or is about to, and we will shape the training around it.