The first month of the year is over and now it’s time to compare how you did last month. But you can’t because you don’t have anything to compare to since you haven’t yet completed your budget for the year. It is important that you prepare a budget, no matter how small or large your business…
One of the main challenges service based business owners have is determining their profitability on a client by client basis. Especially when some of their costs needs to be spread over all of their clients. It’s a calculation the average bear won’t know or understand how to calculate. But it is a necessity, if…
In order for your business to grow you need to be monitoring your metrics. You cannot expect your business to magically take flight if you have no idea what is going on in it. And by going on I don’t mean just in operations because that is just one side of the house. You need…
When most people think of job costing they think of construction businesses. But you can us job costing in any business that has multiple streams of income that are significant to that businesses bottom line. Job costing is all about assigning the proper costs to individual project or jobs, to help determine its profitability. In…
Profit (n.): the excess earnings over expenditures you make from providing services or selling products Breaking Even (adj.): the point or level of financial activity at which expenditures equal income; no profit or loss Is your business making a profit? Most people truly believe they are. But if they were to sit down and really…
