Services
Consulting and support for every stage and cycle.
Aster Consulting is focused on small businesses. We cater to the hardworking, long day, overachievers living the American dream of self-employment.
What we do
Tax Strategy & Preparation
Business Advisory
Valuation Support
Exit Planning & CEPA Guidance
Growth Acceleration Methodology
QuickBooks Training & Lessons
Tax Strategy & Preparation
Proactive planning and precise preparation with clear explanations that help you make informed, long-term tax decisions.
Business Advisory
Hands-on guidance across operations, cash flow, financial structure, costing, pricing, and strategy, helping you understand your drivers, solve practical challenges, and grow with purpose.
This work often includes process review, operational assessment, implementation support, and helping owners move beyond conventional rules of thumb toward clearer, more dependable decision-making.
Process Review
Operational Assessment
Implementation Support
Valuation Support
Clarity on what creates value in your business, what affects it, and how to influence it over time.
Exit Planning & CEPA Guidance
Exit planning is not just about selling a business. It is about building a stronger, more valuable, more transferable company, whether an exit is around the corner or years away.
As a Certified Exit Planning Advisor, Kim helps business owners think through value, readiness, risk, succession, and the personal and financial realities that come with transition. This work can support a future sale, internal succession, family transition, or simply a stronger company today.
You may have heard exit planning can be expensive. Our approach is designed to be right-sized. Services are available a la carte and tailored to your company’s size, stage, and needs, so you are only paying for what makes sense for you.
Growth Acceleration Methodology
Our growth acceleration methodology is focused on helping businesses build momentum with intention. That may include identifying value drivers, addressing inefficiencies, improving financial visibility, strengthening systems, and helping leadership make better decisions with a clearer path forward.
It can also include deeper, practical work such as assessing costing and pricing methodology, assisting with units of measure for bills of materials, setting up and performing time studies, and creating working pricing models that reflect the realities of the business, not just generic assumptions.
Too many companies rely on conventional rules of thumb for pricing when there are far more variables to consider. Our role is to help clients understand those variables, give them the tools to improve, and when needed help implement the changes that move the business toward stronger profitability.
This is practical, hands-on work rooted in where your business is today and where you want it to go next.
QuickBooks Training & Lessons
We offer QuickBooks lessons for businesses that want stronger internal understanding and better day-to-day use of their system. This includes support for QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, Inventory, Manufacturing, and Retail.
The goal is not just to fix issues for you, but to help you and your team use QuickBooks with greater confidence and competence, with training that is practical, applicable, and tied to how your business actually operates.
