BDO empowers organisations to define their long-term objectives and make informed strategic decisions, especially during periods of key organisational change. Our approach integrates rigorous financial, organisational, and market analysis to provide actionable, data-driven recommendations that support your most critical business decisions.

 Our expert consultants can support you with:

• Strategy Formulation & Planning: Develop robust strategies and actionable roadmaps that align with your vision for sustainable growth.
• Competitive Analysis: Leverage deep insights to gain a competitive advantage and anticipate market shifts. 
• Strategic Decision Making: Get guidance through complex decisions on restructuring, expansion, and other major organisational changes, ensuring your decisions are grounded in thorough data analysis. 

We also identify inefficiencies and deliver performance improvement solutions that help you:

• Drive Revenue Growth
• Achieve Cost Optimisation
• Enhance Operational Excellence.

BDO delivers expert financial and economic insights to empower critical decision-making across both the public and private sectors. Our multidisciplinary team leverages leading tools and methodologies to ensure that every recommendation is robust, actionable, and compliant with best practices, including the Public Spending Code.

We can support you with:

• Feasibility Analysis: Evaluate project viability, strategic alignment, and risk, enabling informed investment decisions.
• Financial Forecasting & Modelling: Model future scenarios and plan with confidence for future sustainable growth.
• Economic Impact Assessments: Quantify the economic effects of projects and policy proposals.
• Business Case Development: Prepare clear, structured business cases to justify investments, support funding applications, and guide project selection in accordance with Public Spending Code requirements.
• Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA): Rigorously evaluate the economic, financial, and societal impacts of proposed initiatives to optimise value for money.
• Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA): Objectively assess and compare options across multiple quantitative and qualitative criteria, supporting transparent and balanced decision-making.

• Expert Witness Service: BDO provides authoritative, independent expert witness testimony, with particular expertise in the tourism, leisure, and hospitality sector—supporting litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution with robust financial, sectoral and economic analysis.

We are trusted advisors to government departments, semi-state organisations, and private sector clients, ensuring full compliance with the Public Spending Code and best practice standards at every stage of the project lifecycle.

Partner with BDO for rigorous analysis, transparent methodologies, and strategic insight—enabling you to make decisions that drive measurable value and sustainable outcomes.

BDO supports organisations at every stage of the grant lifecycle with proven methodologies to support both donors, administrators, and beneficiaries, whilst ensuring effective fund management. Our services will help you with:

• Scheme Development: Design impactful grant programs.
• Evaluation Criteria & Application Design: Create robust frameworks for assessment.
• Funding Strategy Alignment: Maximise funding opportunities.
• Post-Award Management: Ensure compliance through reporting, monitoring, and stakeholder engagement.

Managing debt effectively is critical to long-term stability. BDO’s Debt Advisory services help you optimise capital structures, secure sustainable terms and access the right funding sources. Our Debt Restructuring expertise supports you in easing financial pressures, improving liquidity and rebuilding lender confidence with transparency. Through Mortgage Process Due Diligence Reviews, we benchmark processes end-to-end, providing assurance on compliance, efficiency and risk management.

Learn more about Debt Advisory & Restructuring Services

In today’s dynamic markets, staying ahead demands actionable insights grounded in robust analysis. BDO empowers organisations across the public and private sectors to anticipate market and sectoral shifts and capitalise on emerging opportunities and threats. 

We can support you with:

• Market Research: Gain a deep understanding of customer trends, behaviours, and preferences.
• Sector Analysis:  Identify growth opportunities, emerging risks, and key drivers of change within your industry, enabling proactive and strategic decision-making. 
• Demand and Supply Analysis: Assess current and future market needs, supply capacity, and potential gaps to support resource planning, investment decisions, and effective market interventions.
• Benchmarking: evaluate your organisation’s performance against industry standards and best practices to identify strengths, address performance gaps, and set realistic, ambitious targets. 
• Policy Insight & Impact Analysis: Deliver evidence-based insights to inform public policy decisions for government agencies and representative bodies. Our analysis supports policy formulation, programme design, and impact assessments—ensuring that policy responses are relevant, effective, and aligned with stakeholder needs.

By leveraging BDO’s data-driven insights, organisations and policymakers can make informed decisions, enhancing the ability to adapt to changing environments and maintain their competitive edge.

Unlock the power of data with BDO’s advanced analytics solutions and data consulting solutions. We empower organisations to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions by transforming complex data into actionable insights and strategic value. Our services include:

• Data Strategy Development: Design and build robust frameworks for effective data governance, integration, and utilisation across your organisation.
• Custom Dashboards & Data Visualisations: Develop intuitive dashboards that provide clear visibility into key metrics, enabling more informed and agile decision-making 
• Analytics Tools: Leverage analytical tools and technology to drive innovation and data processing 
• Data Quality & Integrity Assessment: Ensure your data is accurate, reliable, and fit for purpose, laying the foundation for trustworthy analytics and reporting.

Our consultants support you transform your data into a strategic asset, providing actionable insights and enabling smarter decision-making and innovation.

Robust governance is the cornerstone of organisational resilience, trust, and sustainable success. BDO’s Governance Consulting services ensure your organisation adopts structures and practices fully aligned with global best practices and regulatory requirements. 

Our experts specialise in:

• Designing and Implementing Governance Frameworks: Establishing frameworks that promote accountability, transparency, and effective decision-making.
• Public Sector Governance: Supporting public sector organisations, including local authorities and semi-state entities, in developing governance structures for subsidiary entities and commercial projects.
• Board and Committee Effectiveness: Evaluate and optimise the performance of boards and committees, strengthening oversight, strategic direction, and governance culture.
• Policy and Procedure Development: Assist with the creation and refinement of governance policies, codes of conduct, and operational guidelines.

With BDO, you benefit from deep sector expertise and a collaborative approach, empowering your organisation to build robust governance foundations that support growth, manage risk, and inspire stakeholder trust.