Measure your growth opportunities by comparing your revenue and market share.
Identify opportunities for improved efficiency by comparing your company to industry metrics.
We examine your company’s Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats (SWOT Analysis). We will identify what you do best and capitalize on it. We find areas to improve and remedy it. We look for opportunities and capture them. Identify threats and minimize the risk.
Mark Sabo brings over three decades of experience as a finance and operations executive to his FINANCIAL HORIZONS clients. His skills were honed over the entreprenuerial kitchen table to the corporate boardroom. Mark’s work history begins with his own “grassroots to NASDAQ” story in which his family’s single auto parts store in Detroit grew to a publicly traded chain of seventy stores with 1,500 employees and $100 million in revenues. His hands were on every aspect of the business, from sales clerk to senior manager. Mark has worked for regional and international CPA firms servicing large and small clients, including Ford Motor Company and the United States Department of Labor.
His subsequent 14 years were spent in the broadcast industry as Controller for two large- market television stations, WKBD-TV, Detroit and KIRO-TV, Seattle. These years boosted his expertise in business strategizing and the complex issues surrounding ownership change, business valuation, goodwill analysis and internal controls structure. Mark Sabo founded FINANCIAL HORIZONS in 2003 and holds an MBA in Finance from Seattle Pacific University. He has been a lecturer at the University of Washington Business School, Highline Community College and Central Washington University. Mark has been an Adjunct Professor in the MBA program at Seattle Pacific University and at the Leadership for Education Adult Program at Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington.
"Mark goes far beyond the level of engagement of a typical consultant and participates intellectually and emotionally as a part of our executive team. Trustworthy, knowledgeable, and compassionate, Mark has a sensitivity to business that has helped us keep pace with our loftiest expectations"
"Mark Sabo has defined and instilled accounting processes and business finance strategy for our company for over 5 years that have met both our immediate needs and our long-term growth goals. Most recently, he has helped us identify and collect tax credits for which we were eligible, that without his involvement and expertise we would have not been aware of. Through his work, Mark was able to not only help us uncover and receive a substantial refund, but we now have a more accurate reporting model that is providing long-term savings for the business."
"I have worked with Mark Sabo and Financial Horizons for over a year and a half. They established client accounting and operating systems and a very thorough budgeting process. These allowed our bank to have a clear understanding of our client’s current and projected performance. I highly recommend Financial Horizons."
"Mark Sabo and his company are first rate. If you need financial outsourcing or expertise on a specific project, you would be smart to consider him."
"In many ways, Mark models the kind of “good” in business that this broken world of ours desperately needs."
"I After two years of losses I hired Mark as a consultant for our finance group. Mark quickly proved himself and helped us analyze, predict and sustain profitability. He implemented changes in how our IT, IS and finance staff worked to reduce duplicate entry systems, unhelpful reports, and procedures. TPN quickly came back to profitability resulting in a $1 million profit by the end of 2005. Mark brought objectivity and innovation to TPN. He is a great family man, a good listener and a man of action."
"Mark is a person of integrity, loyalty and honesty. With Mark’s help the station has been able to reduce expenses dramatically over the past five years, while still maintaining the core elements which have kept KIRO a strong market competitor. In addition, Mark is more than a solid senior finance person; he has consistently demonstrated strong strategic thinking an action that has benefited the entire enterprise. Mark has a strong entrepreneurial background and I’m sure would be a major asset to any company or organization in need of an experienced business professional."
"With less than three months left in our fiscal year and no budget yet built for the 06-07 year, my charge to him was to confirm that we were fiscally sound, help build our budget, and help our staff to become “owners” of the budget process in both its building and its maintenance. Mark worked with us to determin that we were indeed financially sound, develop a sound budget and continues to work effectively with us to integrate the budget managment process into each of our departments.I am very pleased with the contributions Mark has made to LIOS. I have found his coaching and guidance around financial issues to be quite helpful and I am better able to manage my orgganization as a result. I do not hesitate to recommend him."