Last week we did a deeper dive in to Shortening Cycle Times. This week we’re going to talk about how to eliminate mistakes. No matter what type of business you’re in, we’ve all made mistakes in our sales cycle, production/delivery cycle or billing/payment cycle. As we try to shorten cycle times, that means we’re going…
Last week, we had an overview of “3 Tips to Manage The Madness In Your Business.” The first tip was shortening cycle times. Depending on the type of business you’re in, all of us have a sales cycle, delivery cycle and a billing/payment cycle. If you’re a product, manufacturing or contracting company, you also have…
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.
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).
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.
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…
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:
Have you ever had the experience where sales and growth were either happening way too fast or not fast enough? The success of both requires management on the part of the owner and his or her management team. The size of the business will determine what the division of labor is for these management tasks….
Success should not come as a surprise. It’s something you’ve planned for. You have the right people in place with good processes and execution.
When you first start your business and begin recording business transactions, you must decide whether to use cash basis or accrual basis accounting. The big difference is in how you record your cash transactions. Many people use cash basis accounting for taxes and accrual basis for managing the business. Here are 5 things you must…
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