Do You Make These 7 Deadly Cash Flow Mistakes?
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Managing cash flow is every small business owner’s most important function. Avoid these seven deadly mistakes to make sure you aren’t creating cash flow problems in your business.1. Using the “Fly By The Seat of Your Pants” Accounting Method.
When tax time rolls around do you find yourself pawing through piles of paper on your desk looking for credit card receipts from your business trip? Or are you upside down digging under the seat of your car trying to figure out where all your gas receipts are? Are you wondering if that coffee stained piece of paper is an invoice from a supplier? Do you have a vague feeling that someone, somewhere owes you money but, you just can’t remember who it is? If so, you’re probably guilty of operating with the “Fly By the Seat of Your Pants” accounting method.
Using this accounting method has a tremendous impact on your business’s cash flow. Unless you have a system to track your business finances, you’ll always be operating in the dark and in danger of imitating George of the Jungle as he slams into a tree.
2. Not Knowing What the Numbers Are All About.
Once you have a real honest to goodness useful accounting system that’s where the real fun starts. You’ve got a bunch of numbers but what in the world do you do with them?
Understanding what the numbers mean is crucial to your cash flow. Are sales trending up or down? Are expenses rising faster than sales? Is one product more profitable or better selling than another? How much do I need to sell to meet expenses each month? Can I take a paycheck this month? The answers all lie in the numbers.
3.Mismanaging Credit: I Owe You, You Owe Me.
There are two ways to mismanage credit in small business:
1. Granting credit without wise credit policies
2. Using credit with no plan of how to pay the bill.
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