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Talenom as an investment
Talenom as an investment
Talenom has a strong position in Finland's fragmented accounting services market, as well as being active in the Swedish, Spanish and Italian markets.
As a pioneer in the industry, we combine the development of our own software and accounting services in a unique way. Our own software development combined with expertise in the accounting industry gives us a clear competitive advantage, which enables us to offer a superior customer experience to our corporate customers, while automating our own routines.
The economies of scale that come through technological development are becoming increasingly important and drive the consolidation process in the industry. Our aim is to further increase our market share in our core market in Finland and to exploit the growth potential of internationalisation in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe.
Why to invest?
1. Clearly faster growth than on the market and scalable profitability
The accounting service market is defensive, and the market has grown in Finland almost every year since 2001, despite the financial crisis and the intermittent shrinking of Finland's Gross Domestic Product. According to Statistics Finland's structural business and financial statement statistics and the preceding annual Business Register statistics, average annual net sales growth in the accounting service market amounted to some 5% in 2001–2022.
We expect the industry to grow steadily also in coming years. At the same time, the income distribution of the industry is changing. The winners would appear to be software companies and other players investing in their own software development.
In recent years, our net sales growth has clearly exceeded market growth and our profitability scaled strongly between 2015 and 2020. During the past few years, the strong internationalisation has burdened our relative profitability.
In Sweden, we are focusing on implementing our own software and processes, which in the longer term will improve efficiency, profitability and organic growth opportunities. In the short term, the resources required for the project combined with the economic downturn will put a significant strain on profitability. However, this will enable the relative profitability level of Finland to be achieved in the longer term.
Long-term business development
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2. Technological competence brings a clear competitive edge
The digital transformation of financial management and automation of accounting services will change the accustomed operating models of the accounting industry. In addition to digitalisation, the industry development is driven by stricter legislation, resulting in an increased need for expert services among companies. This will lead to a greater emphasis on the role of various advisory services and to a more consultative role for the traditional accountant.
Our strategy to develop our services and our own systems in parallel gives us good opportunities to grow and succeed in the digitalisation of the accounting service industry. Our strong software expertise has enabled a highly efficient and automated accounting process, which, in turn, has enabled us to focus on the development of our value-added services. This has laid the foundation for our profitable growth.
3. Lasting customer relationships and high share of continuous business provide predictability
A broad, fragmented and permanent customer base is one of our strengths. It also provides continuity and transparency in our business. Our customer relationships are long and the accumulation of invoicing is highly predictable. An estimated 90% of our invoicing is recurring. Our customers' net recommendation index is high.
4. Strong position on the Finnish core market
We are one of the largest accounting firms in Finland as well as among the largest providers of financial support services. Our offices are located in 36 cities, covering all the largest cities in Finland. Our franchise-based sales network, launched in 2015, has grown in recent years and has helped us strengthen our market share in Finland by expanding to smaller cities.
We aim to strengthen our market share through organic growth, acquisitions and by developing new service packages that will provide competitive advantages as we expand beyond Finland's borders.
5. Growth potential from internationalisation and small customer concept
We have started our internationalisation by expanding to Sweden, Spain and Italy with acquisitions. We consider our growth prospects on the Swedish and Central European markets to be good. Like in Finland, the local accounting markets are in a revolution, driven by low levels of automation and digitalisation, fragmented markets, work revolution, and tighter financial regulation.
In addition to internationalisation, we are looking for growth in new customer concepts, such as the launch of the service for small entrepreneurs. The ongoing work revolution leads more people to work another job or to part-time entrepreneurship. At the same time, the mode of work is increasingly becoming platform economy work taking place through entrepreneurship. The market for light entrepreneurship has grown three-fold in Finland over five years and we want to be part of this mega trend.
