If you can measure it, you can manage it.
Most small and medium sized businesses operate at a huge disadvantage to their larger competitors due to a lack of financial information on a monthly or even weekly basis.
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Good financial information helps you monitor the different aspects of your business and identify problems as they arise.
If your business has annual sales in excess of £200,000, here are just some of the issues that you should be considering at least once a month:
- Are you making the profits that you should be?
- Are you operating above or below your real break-even point?
- Is money going missing somewhere?
- How are you doing compared to last year?
- Could you save money somewhere?
- Are your prices right?
- Can you measure the key performance indicators of your business?
- Are your monthly accounts providing you with information that you need and understand?
- How much profit is each salesman, department or service type generating?
