Lexington, South Carolina

Business Consulting and Accounting for Lexington, SC Companies

Owners searching for a business consultant in Lexington, SC are usually past the point of wondering whether they need help — the business proved itself, the county kept growing, and now the books, the marketing, and the week itself have outgrown the systems that got it here. That’s the work we do. Our office is twenty minutes up the road in Irmo, and Lexington County — from the town of Lexington to West Columbia — is where a large share of our clients run their companies.

8 Furlong Consulting · 7825 Broad River Rd, Suite 100, Irmo, SC 29063 · (803) 298-9838

The Pattern

Growth That Outran the Back Office

Lexington is one of the fastest-growing counties in South Carolina, and the businesses here grow the same way: fast enough that the owner is still doing jobs the company should have hired for two years ago. The version of it we see most starts with the books — QuickBooks kept up until it didn’t, job costs and food costs and margins that are a feeling instead of a number, tax season as an annual surprise. So the engagement usually starts with accounting, under the supervision of a licensed CPA — clean monthly numbers, cash-flow forecasting, job costing for the trades — and widens from there once the owner can finally see what the business is doing.

The Four Pillars

Every Door, One Firm

Accounting →Bookkeeping, forecasting, tax planning, and fractional CFO work that turns the monthly close into a decision-making tool. Business Consulting & Coaching →Paul working the business alongside you, consulting and coaching in the same conversation, from operations to the eventual exit. Marketing →Strategy, brand, content, and social, pointed at Lexington clients and measured in revenue. Information Systems & Technology →Websites that book work, local search visibility across Lexington County, and automation that hands your people their hours back.

Our Clients

Lexington Companies We Sit Down With Every Week

Around Lexington and West Columbia, the owners on our client list run restaurants, automotive shops, and specialty retailers — different rooms, same conversation: the business works, and the owner wants it to work without consuming them. The results run the same range our whole-firm clients see everywhere — net profit increases reaching as high as 500%.

One thing applies here the way it applies everywhere we work: the work is done in our own office, by our own people. Nothing is subcontracted or white-labeled, whether you hire us for one service or all four.

Twenty Minutes

Your Site or Ours

Plenty of Lexington owners drive up to the office; just as many never do, because the useful version of a first conversation often happens where the business lives — the dining room before open, the shop floor between jobs, the back office where the paper piles up. Either way, it’s the same short drive between us. And if the first conversation needs to happen after close or before the doors open, say so — owner hours are the hours we keep.

(803) 298-9838 · Info@8FurlongConsulting.com · Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm · Also serving Irmo and Chapin.

See how we can impact your business

Bring us the number you can’t see or the week you can’t get back. One conversation, wherever suits you, and you’ll leave knowing what we’d do about it.

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