The Accounting Activity your business should be performing

I am not going to keep you waiting. The #1 accounting activity your company must perform is cash flow management. This activity is so overlooked by businesses that it is scary. The fact is lack or or improper cash flow management can lead to death of your business. It may sound dramatic but numbers don’t lie. 68% of small businesses perform no cash flow analysis at all. This results in many successful, growing and profitable businesses failing because they do not have adequate cash to meet the needs of their growing business. 

Research from stasticsbrain.com shows that 46% of businesses failure is largely due to financial reasons.Simplycashflow.com stated that 28% percent of small businesses states “cash flow as their biggest challenge.”Businesses who have cash management actives have a 80% greater chance of surviving, compared to 36% chance if you manage your cash yearly. So know that you have the numbers, let’s learn more about what cash flow management entails. Cash flow is the movement of money in and out of the business. Therefore, cash flow management is tracking, analyzing, and monitoring this movement on a continuous basis. This can be daily, weekly, or monthly. 

Cash flow management can be very detailed and involved. The purpose of this post is not to teach you cash management (because to do it correctly it will take way more than a blog post) but to get your wheels turning. I want you to assess your current cash management activities and come up with a plan to improve it. 

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Ask yourself

Do I completely understand how to manage cash? What cash flow management activities am I currently doing? How often do I take time to effectively monitor and manage cash? What is the difference between profit and cash flow? I recommend reading the book Never Run out of Cash. It is a great book on how to manage your cash flow especially if you are not an accountant.

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5 Simple Tax Tips for Individuals and Small Businesses

1.    Avoid Stress, Save Time and Money

Be Careful and Thorough. Avoid common problems like illegible hand writing, mathematical errors, transposition of numbers, and missing signature. These little oversights can end up costing you time and money if you are slapped with penalties.

2. Get Organized.

Allow enough time to get your stuff in order. For example, properly categorizing your expenditures now will save you a lot of time later. Come tax time, you will be glad you grouped your expenditures by category (match it with verbiage on Schedule C if self-employed) and not by month or name of vendor payee.

3. Be Flexible.

Timing your cash flow can save you money. In other words, always accelerate deductions in the year you are doing taxes for and always defer income, if you can, into the next year, thereby lowering your current year’s tax bite. If you fall into the Alternative Minimum Tax, you may want a professional to advise you.

4. Know When To Ask for Help.

Tax preparation tools like TurboTax and TaxCut are great, but people with anything more than a straight W-2 (including anyone with even the smallest business Schedule C) should be aware of the limitations of these software programs.

5. Don’t be Penny Wise and Pound Foolish.

Hiring an expert CPA or EA to prepare your return is a small annual investment that can pay off big! Don’t do your taxes yourself unless you are a straight W-2 wage earner that takes the Standard Deductions (in other words, someone who doesn’t itemize or have any unreimbursed employee business expenses).

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Learn - A Better Bookkeeping Service Part - 2

Thus the concept of a 'trial balance' is born: If one lists and adds up all the debit(+) balances from the pages in the ledgers, the total should be the same as the sum of the list of all the credit(-) balances from those books.  This check is the primary purpose of a trial balance. In a single column, of course, the debits and credits will therefore sum to zero, and this is sometimes how a trial balance is presented, rather than the more traditional 2-column 'debit/credit' approach. So, the art of double-entry bookkeeping is to keep the debits and credits in balance; if you make a debit entry you must make an opposing credit entry of the same value. 

The (positive) debits in this system of accounting are the assets and the expenses, the (negative) credits are the liabilities and the income. At first, these pairings seem strange, but they work to keep the books in balance.  This is because the income less expenses makes up the 'Profit and Loss Account' section of the trial balance, and the assets less liabilities make up the 'Balance Sheet' section of the trial balance. For example, if you sell some goods to a customer for £100, that you purchased from a supplier for £80, the double-entry is as follows:   

 Debit : Purchases (in the nominal ledger) £80    

Credit : Supplier account (in the purchase ledger) £(80)    

Debit : Customer account (in the sales ledger) 100    

Credit : Income account (in the nominal ledger) £(100). The trial balance then extracted from this trader's ledger books is as follows:     Income - Sales £(100)    Expenses - Purchases of goods £80    Assets - Debtors in sales ledger : £100    Liabilities - Creditors in purchase ledger : £(80)Once the customer has paid for the goods, and the supplier has in turn been paid, the entries required are:    

Debit  : Bank account

£100    Credit : Customer account (in the sales ledger) £(100)    

Debit : Supplier account (in the purchase ledger) £80    

Credit : Bank account £(80)The trial balance then extracted from this trader's ledger books is as follows:    

Income - Sales £(100)    Expenses - Purchases of goods £80    

Assets - Bank account (in the nominal ledger) : £20    

Assets - Debtors in sales ledger : £nil    Liabilities - Creditors in purchase ledger : £nilAs can be seen, each entry 'balances' in its own right (and is called a 'journal entry' to the ledgers), and therefore a 'trial balance', of equal total of debits and total of credits, is always maintained (summing to zero).In this example, the profit of the business is £(20), measured as a (negative) net credit amount and this is represented by net assets of £20 held in the business.

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