I remember many vacations driving to our beach destination with two young daughters asking, “Are we there yet?”. My answer was always, “Not yet” or “We’re almost there.” Any parent knows what I’m talking about. Well, we’re halfway through the year. With June 30 financials coming, it’s time to take a look to see if…
KPI’s, Key Performance Indicators, can change based on what management is looking for our in their performance. The consequence of focusing on certain performance indicators can easily cause a business owner to get more granular in their focus or the positive result in a management change in another. Here’s two stories of how this might…
I’ve been working with a client for several years now that wasn’t managing their close rate on sales and what their average transaction size was. They purchased a sales tracking software and started tracking their closed won sales and the size of each transaction. At first, it was hard to get their sales people to…
Have you heard the saying, you can’t see the forest for the trees?” Well, many times business owners are so busy working in their business, they don’t take time to work on their business. What does that mean? The only person in your company who is motivated to grow your company is you. All the…
When it comes time to renew your line of credit you might be wondering, what’s my banker thinking? For bankers, everything about your line of credit is analyzing any changes in risk. The financials tell a story about what happened in the business this past year. But more importantly your banker will ask you the…
Most lines of credit mature five months after fiscal year end. For 12/31 companies that means the end of this month. Before your banker calls and schedules a closing for the renewal, there are 4 things you should know: 1) Did I comply with all the terms and conditions? Was the line used for…
Processes are supposed to help organizations scale and improve efficiency, but they can quickly get out of control. The flip side is a lack of processes can create inefficiencies. The lack of processes or process redundancy can have a significant impact to your bottom line. Here are a few examples of productivity killers that might…
Your first quarter just ended. How was it? Any changes going on in your business? It’s easy for a business to do no analysis at all and assume whatever happens just happens. Others have spreadsheets ad nauseum and really can’t draw any meaningful conclusions. I call this paralysis of analysis. If you feel like you’re…
I can recall a time I was driving my car on the interstate, a daily occurrence for most Atlanta residents. Traffic was moving surprisingly well, and I needed to move over one lane. I put my signal on, looked in my side view mirror and started to move over. In that moment, I heard the…
Operating leverage measures a company’s fixed costs as a percentage of its total costs (fixed and variable). It is used to evaluate the break-even point of a business as well as the likely profit levels on individual sales. If a large proportion of a company’s costs are fixed, it is considered to have high operating…
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