3 Tips to Manage The Madness in Your Business
We just finished a 3 part series “Teaching Financials to Drive Performance”. The goal was to teach business owners how the impact of their decisions plays out in their financials statements.
Teaching Financials To Drive Performance: Part 3 The Cash Flow Statement
Our two most recent posts, we’ve discussed that there are 4 critical items to understand your financials. 3 come from the balance sheet (asset quality, liquidity and leverage) and the 4th comes from the income statement (profitability).
Teaching Financials to Drive Performance: Part 2 The Profit and Loss Statement
In our last post, we discussed that of the 4 critical items, (Profitability, Asset Quality, Liquidity and Leverage) 3 of them are from the Balance Sheet. The 4th, Profitability is on the Profit and Loss Statement, sometimes called the P&L or the Income Statement.
Teaching Financial Statements to Drive Performance: Part 1 The Balance Sheet
We believe it’s critical for every business owner to know how to manage money once it’s in the business rather than just making sales. And it can be even more impactful if all employees are empowered to know how the decisions they make affect the bottom line and top line of the business. In order…
4 Ways to Tell if Your Financial House is in Order
I thought this would be a good follow-up to my last post “5 Things to Know Before You Borrow.” Many of us get an annual physical, the doctor checks us out to see how things look like cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate and respiration and compare them to last year. We want to manage our…
5 Things to Know Before You Borrow
A very successful business owner and mentor of mine used to say, “The path of least resistance is what makes men and rivers crooked.” In your business, the path of least resistance is using a credit card or some other form of borrowing. Before you know it, the amount of debt has piled up, the…
3 Critical Items to Achieve a Successful Company Vision
Sometime ago I read an article about Pete Maravich, former LSU and NBA basketball player and what made him so successful. When asked that question by the sportswriter, he answered “before I take the shot, I can’t see myself missing.” While it would be easy to interpret that comment as arrogant, the article stated that what he…
3 Things to Know About Key Performance Indicators
If you’re like me, you’re reflecting on 2015 and setting the table for 2016. What are you going to start doing, stop doing and keep doing? One of the ways of determining this is to look at the key metrics of your business to determine if you’re on the right track for success or what…
Why Your Balance Sheet is More Important than Your P&L
Many business owners look at their profit and loss statement and determine if they’re profitable or not. How is revenue tracking against last month or last year? Any changes in gross or net profit margin? If I’m making money then everything must be ok. There is some validity to that way of thinking.
Why You Should Consider Hiring a Part-Time CFO
Two things have become increasingly apparent to me. If you’re a big company, you have good access to capital and can find the funding needed to finance your business. Small companies don’t have that access to capital and finding funding is difficult. Here’s why:
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