Question 1

Can you show which of our clinics make money and which the group is propping up?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Alehar reports each clinic every month on what it keeps after the dentists, staff, lab fees, rent and its own equipment loans, with the group's central costs shown apart, and turns each clinic's fixed costs into the chair hours it has to fill. Owners see which clinics to grow, where to add an associate or a hygienist, and which clinic to fix or sell.

Question 2

We have been offered two more practices. Can you show whether the group can carry both and how to fund them?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Alehar adds both practices to the group forecast: what each earns once the selling dentist is paid as an associate, the equipment and the lease each brings and the cash the group needs through both handovers, and shows whether the existing clinics and the current facility carry them or whether the group needs a larger facility, a seller loan or an investor. The purchases can be run under Alehar's Acquiring a Company service.

Question 3

A consolidator has made an offer for the group. Can you prepare us and help us weigh it against keeping on buying?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Alehar prepares the clinic-by-clinic numbers a buyer will test: collections and profit after the dentists are paid, how much of it repeats, and how much depends on the founding partners, and sets the offer against the alternative of buying on the group's own facility and selling a larger group later. If the partners decide to sell, Alehar runs the process under its Selling your Company service.

Question 4

Every clinic we bought came with its own loans. Can you refinance them into one group facility?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Alehar lists every loan and lease across the group, with its rate, term, security and the covenants it carries, and prepares the numbers a bank will test for one facility against the group: clinic profit, collections history and the acquisition plan. It runs the refinancing under its Raising Equity or Debt service, so the next acquisition is funded from the facility rather than from another standalone loan.

Question 5

Can you build the case for the next acquisition or opening before we commit?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Alehar tests an acquisition on what the practice earns once the selling dentist is paid as an associate, how many patients stay when they leave and the equipment and lease it brings, and an opening on the fit-out, the equipment and the months before the chairs fill. Both are set against the cash the group throws off and what the facility allows, so the owners see the payback of each before they commit.

Question 6

Can you forecast cash across the group when insurers pay late?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Alehar forecasts cash week by week from each clinic's schedule, the collection history of each insurer and the patients' own payments, set against payroll, lab bills, rent and the loan repayments across the group. It shows how much production is still waiting to be collected, which insurers hold it longest, which claims come back rejected and the weeks when the group runs short.

Question 7

Patients accept implants or aligners and then never book. Can you show what that costs us and whether patient financing would help?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Alehar tracks the treatment plans presented, started and paid, by treatment, dentist and clinic, and shows what the plans that never started were worth and where patients drop out: at the quote, at the deposit or at the next visit. It then compares the cost of installments or a finance partner, including their fee, against the treatments that would go ahead, so the owners set the deposit, the terms and when to offer finance.

Question 8

Is an outsourced or virtual CFO the right choice for a dental group?

Accepted Answer

Yes, for most owner-led dental groups, multi-clinic practices, orthodontic groups and DSOs that do not yet need a full-time finance director. Alehar's partner, backed by a team, reviews clinic profit, collections, overhead and the next acquisition with you every month and steps up when you refinance, buy or sell. Owners get what an interim CFO or part-time FD would give them, with the reach of a virtual CFO. Your accountant still does the books. Alehar adds the monthly group numbers on top.

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