“Van der Kraay, Swan & Jones” is a label of business economists operating for European clients with an international presence, in the Benelux, Germany and Spain. Under our label we bring together a range of specialists to help our clients grow and increase profitability.

  • We do corporate restucturings, business turn-arounds, prepare companies to scale, Mergers & Acquisitions, divestures and insolvencies

  • We help to re-design finance, business control and enable management teams to make better decisions upon better information. We integrate strategic visions and business models with accounting for management goals

  • We assist our clients in accounting by tailoring systems to their needs and wishes, implementing bookkeeping practices and providing accounting services.

We believe better, more profitable business starts with better information and improved decision making. We are specialised in designing, prototyping and implementing information systems. With your management team on board, our design journey aims at rapidly organizing the finance and business control functions to enable management teams to make right decisions.

We help clients to prepare for scale, supporting them with buy & build strategies, business turnarounds and corporate restructurings. We drive change such that clients can have useful dashboards that help translate strategic visions to down-to-earth, practible decisions. Together with our clients we go from vision to bookkeeping, and vice versa. We use proprietary software tools that combine third party accounting software with AI and machine learning.

We like to be active business professionals with rolled-up sleeves: we do not stop at powerpoint presentations, but instead implement necessary adjustments. We support clients and their finance functions by providing turn-key finance support, from basic bookkeeping functions up to elaborate and complex analyses for decision support.

  • Working with your team

    We’re hands-on professionals. We work alongside your team to implement changes—and even dive deep in your financial accounting systems—until everything works the way it should. To accomplish fun and efficient sessions we prepare using data-sets with your historical information, bookkeeping data, and other management information reports. We process these in our proprietary software such that during the team sessions we can achieve tangible results and immediately provide the team feedback on any prototypes discussed. What many believe is achievable only after long, exhaustive, and boring meetings, will be realised and ready for implementation on the spot. So, business economics and finance is great fun.

  • Business & Financial Control

    We design and implement business and financial control, and management reporting tools—fostering transparency, accountability, and clarity across your organization. We take a design approach to create and implement these. In co-creation with the management team we determine the key steering information that truly drives performance. We use strategic visioning, business model generation and balance score card tools and align finance with strategic and operational goals. During these sessions we prototype dashboards, financial and operational reports, KPI’s, we filter the usable ones and implement these directly. Our software is designed to produce inmediate results and facilitates pivot processes, so we together learn what works best.

  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring

    Are you looking at buying, selling, or restructuring your business, our specialists guide you through every phase—from initial valuation and due diligence to post-merger integration. We offer comprehensive financial restructuring services to improve performance, liquidity, and overall profitability. Our economists work closely together with our, and/or your legal partners, certified valuators, and accountants. Although we think it’s nicer to have the due diligence information already available during your journey towards an exit or merger, we have all skills and systems in place to produce required information packages quickly and efficiently.

  • Scale-up & High Growth Clients

    To prepare your business of course careful structuring and sound strategic insights are necessary, but the core ingredients are the oposite: disruption, agility and flexibility. We implement agile business control and reporting that ensure practicle, actionable steps and people that will act upon deviations from expectations. Our solutions support meeting rythms, pivots of MVP’s, trial & error. We help clients build relevant reports, feed-back loops to management teams, and implement these in the accounting and business control environment.

  • Audit Readiness & Compliance

    Getting on board the process of your auditors to get a clean audit opinion can be a real burden. We help clients through this process by relating accounting transactions to business performance and balance sheet items, with our software. Audit compliant specifications are automated. We prepare and guide your financial teams through audit processes, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements and accounting standards.

  • Expertise and network

    Our expertise is tailored to the dynamic needs of international businesses operating across the Benelux, Germany, and Spain. We speak the languages, we know the cultures and the pecularities of doing business. Our clients have access to our business networks in these area’s: lawyers, accounting firms, and other professional service providers that share our values. We have partners in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Spain.

Business & Financial Control

We design and implement business and financial control, and management reporting tools—fostering transparency, accountability, and clarity across your organization. We take a design approach to create and implement these. In co-creation with the management team we determine the key steering information that truly drives performance. We use strategic visioning, business model generation and balance score cards tools and align finance with strategic and operational goals. During these sessions we prototype dashboards, financial and operational reports, KPI’s, filtering the usable ones and implementing these directly. Our software is designed to produce immediate results and facilitate pivot processes, so that together we learn what works best.

Scale-up & High Growth Clients

Although preparing your business for scalable growth requires careful structuring and sound strategic insights, the core ingredients are disruption, agility and flexibility. We implement agile business control and reporting that ensure practicle, actionable steps and deviations in realisation are acted upon. Our solutions are compatible with all meeting rythms, pivots, and trial & error. We help clients build relevant reports, feed-back loops to management teams, and implement these in the accounting and business control environment.

Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring

Whether you're looking at buying, selling, or restructuring your business, our specialists guide you through every phase—from initial valuation and due diligence to post-merger integration. We offer comprehensive financial restructuring services to improve performance, liquidity, and overall profitability. Our economists work closely with our legal partners, certified valuators, and accountants. In our practise we have a lot of hands-on experience setting-up data-rooms for due diligencies.

Audit Readiness & Compliance

Getting external auditors on board and the process to obtain a clean audit opinion can be a painfull process nowadays. We help clients through this process by relating accounting transactions to business performance and balance sheet items, with our software. Audit compliant specifications are automated. We prepare and guide your financial teams through audit processes, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements and accounting standards.