Accounting changed how the world records business. Return to Owner™ changes how it measures.

The business made money. Why didn't you?
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88,000 analyses·25 years·114 analysts·278 industries and sub-industries
i. the condition

Most owners are running a business that is running them.

The numbers come once a quarter and read like weather. By the time a constraint shows up in the financials, the season is already over. RTO changes the instrument.

ii. the diagnosis

Five dimensions of profit. One verdict.

01Debt
02Working Capital
03Retirement
04Lifestyle
05Exit

Scanned, scored, and read as one. The same five, on every business, across 88,000 analyses.

iii. the verdict

The instrument speaks plainly.

CONTENDED
The business and the owner are contending for the same dollars.

No story. No spin. The instrument reads the five dimensions and returns one posture. Where you stand is not an opinion. It is a measurement.

iv. the hand

Diagnosis names the problem. Profit by Design performs the work.

Return to Owner is the diagnostic. Profit by Design, the prescriptive methodology built and led by Jay B. Aldebert (JBA), turns the reading into control.

01
Financial
The cake of profit, rebuilt layer by layer from Minimum Mandatory Profit™ upward.
02
Operational
Where margin disappears in motion. Fixed before forecasts move.
03
Management
The org redrawn around the cake. Roles match the math.
04
Behavioral
The owner returns. The business no longer runs them.
Three phases. Design. Implement. Educate. Until the owner reads the instrument unaided.
v. the door

The math is the same. The conversation isn't.

Three paths. Choose the seat you sit in.

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