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Check List

21 Strategies To Improve Cashflow – A Check-List

Use this Check-list of 21 Strategies To Quickly Improve Cashflow in your Business. Why is it important to improve cashflow – Cashflow or pure cash is often referred to as the life blood of business and I guess that’s true. Life will soon leave a body devoid of blood so a business will similarly perish without cashflow [...]

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Getting to grips with financial ratios

Healthy Financial Ratios = Healthy Business

Why is financial ratios linked to the health of a business? The challenges of financial management in a small to medium size company (SME) can pose a different set of problems and opportunities than those confronted by a large corporation. One obvious difference is that a majority of smaller companies do not normally have the [...]

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Setting KPI’s

Setting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

Key Performance Indicators are quantifiable measurements that reflect the critical success factors of a business. Why are Key Performance Indicators important Owners are overwhelmed and distracted with day to day activities and tasks. Owners must make important decisions, quickly, with greater consequences, and often with limited information on hand. Owners concentrate on the tactical decisions [...]

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Debtor Collection Contact Schedule

Improving Cash Flow A Basic Debtor System

Avoid Cash Flow challenges, reduce your average Debtor Collection Period (get paid quicker) by following this Basic Debtor Collection System; STEP 1:  Review and Reduce Terms & Conditions No more end of month statements – they cost you time, money and resources and are not necessary. Terms COD, 7 or 14 days, invoiced at the time [...]

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Increasing Your Profit

Increase Your Profit By Increasing Your Prices

When you adopt a premium pricing strategy the table below shows the amount by which your sales volume would have to decline following a  price increase before your absolute gross profit is reduced below it’s present level. Your sales volume could DECLINE by the percentage shown before your Gross Profit is reduced. For example, at [...]

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Financial Mastery – Budgeting Basics Part 3

Financial Mastery – Budgeting Basics Part 3

David Bater, continues with the 3rd part of Budgeting Basic in his Finacial Mastery series of articles.
Financial Mastery – Budgeting Basics Part 3
So how does a strong budgeting process help with you selling your business when the time is right? First, let’s walk through what people pay for when they buy a business:

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Financial Mastery – Budgeting Basics Part 2

Financial Mastery – Budgeting Basics Part 2

David Bater continues his set of articles on Financial Mastery – Budgeting Basics part 2
There are six things to keep in mind when building a strong budget including:

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Basic Budgeting

Financial Mastery Budgeting Basics – Part 1

David Bater writes: Keith Cunningham in his book (Keys to the Vault) says that: “Numbers are the language of business. If you can’t speak the language, then you can’t understand the business”.
Here’s why!

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For Any Small Business Cash Flow – is KING!

For Any Small Business Cash Flow – is KING!

In a recent interview ActionCOACH Business Coach David Bater was asked what the most important thing was for a small business owner. An intriguing question because small business owners are doing so much on a day in and day out basis so, after a bit of thought, the best answer was CASH FLOW.

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How should you price a product?

How should you price a product?

It is a big question how you price your product as you take it to market?  Not only does it drive your revenue number but also the profits you can take out of it at the back end.  So, what is your pricing strategy?  There are three typical ways that people go about pricing things: [...]

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