As a business owner, you may have heard various accounting terms thrown around, such as balance sheet, cash flow, and profit and loss statement. However, it is essential to have a clear understanding of these terms to make informed financial decisions for your...
P&L Management begins with understanding your financial statements, including the P&L statement. Most small business owners are pretty familiar with the P&L because it is required for bank loans and other financial transactions. The P&L clearly shows...
Let’s talk about the boring side of your business. Financial statements and cash flow analysis are things that may scare and intimidate business owners because they do not know how to use them. Businesses today are challenged in ways they have never been challenged...
If you are like most nonprofit businesses, you are keenly aware of the financial and bookkeeping challenges it takes to successfully run your business. A nonprofit’s day to day operations are the same as any other business but you need to make especially smart hires...
If you’re a small business owner or nonprofit leader looking to save both time and money, there are a number of reasons why you should outsource bookkeeping. Here are six benefits to outsourcing your bookkeeping: More time for your business. Because there’s never...
Your CFO is not only responsible for a company's finance and accounting function, they need to also be a a strategic partner who can help analyze a business’s strengths, weaknesses, and will assist in putting together a strategic plan. A CFO should be a forward...
Your finance team is responsible for your company's bookkeeping, reporting, data analysis, paying bills, sending invoices, tracking the AR, and helping you grow. Their knowledge of needs to go beyond reporting the numbers. A CFO can help to identify cost saving...
As a business owner, invoices are sent to customers who are not paying immediately after a job has been completed or a service was provided. Customers will be paying at a later time and an invoice is sent to break down the cost owed to you. A bill is money owed to a...
After carefully tracking and accounting for all transactions, a presentation of the financial statements helps business owners stay on top of their financials. It is helpful to start with the balance sheet, move on to the income statement, and end with your cash flow....
Grants need to be accounted for at all times and many organizations do not realize that it is necessary to establish proper and transparent accounting practices in order to manage grants and continue to receive them. All income and expenditures from the grant need to...
