Cash is king, but without proper bookkeeping procedures in place, mishandling cash can cause business failure.
Weak bookkeeping systems that do not use the correct procedures for handling cash are vulnerable to internal theft and IRS audit failures.
Managing your small business cash flow properly can ensure that your bookkeeper is not stealing from you. Implementing a bookkeeping process for handling cash payments from customers and cash disbursements out of the business (petty cash), is essential to ensuring your small business is successful and profitable.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management,
Outsourced Bookkeeping
Accepting credit card payments allows your business to benefit in a number of ways. To begin with, getting paid by credit card means getting paid faster than is possible with just an accounts receivable or check payment system. Charge cards also give your business the ability to set up automatic client payments, and they provide a more convenient customer experience overall.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management
The process of reducing business assets or selling off all or part of your company is known as divestment or divestiture. Business divestment effectively downsizes or eliminates your interest in your company and the property it owns.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management,
Financial Forecasting,
Exit Planning,
Growth Coach
Maintaining a positive short-term cash flow position – one where the revenues from selling your product or service are greater than your expenses for things like rent, salaries, and supplies - is critical if you want your company to succeed.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management,
QuickBooks Cash Flow
Carrying out a liquidity analysis of your business will help you to better understand your cash position. And that’s important. Because the more favorable a cash position you maintain, the better your outlook for continued success.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management,
Financial Forecasting,
Growth Coach
If you intend to grow a successful business, you will most likely have to hire employees at some point. This is not to say that you can't have a successful business without employees, but you will definitely reach the limit of what you can handle by yourself.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management,
Financial Forecasting,
Growth Coach
Determining operating business cash flow helps you distinguish how much money your business makes from customers and operating activities, such as selling products and services, from money made from financing or investing. Calculating your operating business cash flow helps you manage your money and ensures you have enough funds from customers to cover operating expenses and costs.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management
Money owing from customers in the form of accounts receivable is one of the biggest contributors to your company’s cash flow. While business success hinges on having positive cash flow activity - where there’s more money coming in than there is going out - the money that flows into your business can’t really be counted as income until it becomes cash-in-hand.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management,
Accounts Receivable,
Growth Coach
Properly managing your small business cash flow is critical if you want to succeed. Even if you are just a startup with no revenues, but you have raised money, cash flow is still incredibly important.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management,
Accounts Receivable,
Financial Forecasting
An inability to manage cash flow can kill a small business. One of the biggest reasons for small business failure is a lack of cash flow management.
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Topics:
Cash Flow Management,
QuickBooks Cash Flow,
Financial Forecasting
