As a small business owner, your dream is to acquire financial freedom, not only to pay the bills, but to scale your venture to be self-sustaining and serve as an asset. However, you may find [...]
Most small business experience cash flow problems at one time. But what really causes a cash flow problem? Accountants tell you not enough cash coming in the business for what you’re spending causes cash flow [...]
How to Strategically Increase Profits in Your Small Business In writing this post I did some research. What I found when searching “increasing profitability” was very disheartening. Why, you might ask? Because everything was a [...]
Reviewing financial statements begins during your business planning process. The last step of your business planning should be developing your financial budget. Your budget establishes the financial targets your team should focused on achieving as [...]
How do you keep the pulse of your business? You must monitor business performance to successfully achieve your business goal, and you must religiously monitor it. We know most owners don't do their financial accounting. [...]
I am not an accountant, I am a business growth consultant. But, I use management accounting information for planning and decision making every day when growing a company. So, I ask you. How good is [...]
While cash flow is a regular topic here, it's been a while since we hit the topic from a finance and accounting perspective. While many small business owners find accounting to be tedious it is [...]
The number of people using their personal credit cards for business purpose is growing and that might just prove to be a disastrous financial decision given the risk of mixing pleasure with business. The National [...]
If you’ve accumulated a huge amount of unsecured debts, you need not worry as you can opt for business debt consolidation through which you can finesse your business finances. If you’re a business owner, keeping [...]
Getting business funding is always difficult. But, add the banking challenges of recent years and it only makes it harder! The truth is banks are still lending. And, there are many other sources of funding [...]
Contributed by Jacob Thompson A mobile merchant account allows for a business to accept mobile payments through a cell phone or mobile device. Here are just five ways accepting mobile payments can help expand your business. [...]
Poor cash flow is a critical concept that many entrepreneurs don’t fully understand. I believe this is because they usually hear about it from accountants that try to explain it in accounting terms. Poor cash [...]
Many people are afraid of factoring, but frequently that’s because of the stigma often attached by the banking community to this form of financing. There actually are many very positive aspects to factoring. See if [...]
Accounts Receivable Factoring Factoring may not be the world's oldest profession, but not far from it. This financial practice can be traced back to theRoman Empire. Factoring was the dominant form of finance in the [...]
Entrepreneur financial problems are one of the biggest challenges they face. Usually it’s because they don’t have enough financial resources to accomplish their business goal. This is because a business cannot exist without financial resources, [...]
Cash flow is the life blood of any business, but many small business owner don’t understand the concept. They believe it’s a financial problem and avoid it like the plague! Merriam-Webster defines cash flow as [...]
In a previous post, Avoid Blowing Your Revenue Engine, I described how important calculating your maximum capacity is and how it can help you make better operational decisions. Now I want to show you how to [...]
