Small Business Finance – First Steps

When handling the finance end of your small business, you want to be able to give your company the best opportunity to thrive and grow. That means making sure any profit you can put back in to your business is used wisely.

Here are some basic tips for handling your small business finances successfully.

Know Your Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is a term used mainly in business, and it is simply a process of effectively keeping track of your spending; What’s coming in and out and what taxes you need to be paying. There are formal bookkeeping processes you could use or create a system that suits you and your business. Never make it more complicated than it needs to be.

Regular bookkeeping is a good habit to get into when it comes to your taxes and making sure you are paying the right amount. If you don’t have much bookkeeping experience and don’t have any other finance staff currently, then xero training is something you could start yourself off with. This training provides you with all you need to know about bookkeeping and making sure that you are getting it right from the beginning. Many new companies will go under because they don’t have a handle on their finances.

Get Help If Needed

If you are not a fan of dealing with finances, then you are not going to enjoy doing any bookkeeping. As a small business, you probably won’t have the ability to hire any more full-time staff, if you even have any, to begin with. So with that in mind, you can always get professional help by outsourcing this area of the business.

This way, you can have professionals in to do the work as and when you need it. You can simply use them a few hours a day, per week or even on the odd occasion if your business hasn’t reached that point of regular income yet.

Always Pay Yourself

As a business owner, you want to make a profit for your business, but you also need to remember that you are effectively a staff member of your business. In that regard, it is  important that you are paying yourself each month, just like any other member of staff. Set yourself a monthly wage, and as the profits go up, your wages can reflect that.

If you are simply paying yourself all of the profits from the company, then it will be hard to distinguish what is your actual wage. You need to know this for taxes. Work out how much is going out on a monthly basis including your wage and what you have leftover is there for reinvesting into the business.

Plan Ahead

Planning ahead is always beneficial, and when it comes to your finances, knowing what’s coming out and when is important. This helps with the cash flow of your business.  You might want to sit down with yourself or your team to discuss the financial aspects of the year, what budgets you would like to assign and the progress you would like to achieve.

Being able to plan ahead with your finances can help you prepare for when things go wrong. Back up plans are also worth having, so when something goes wrong, you can lean back onto a plan B.

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Final Thoughts

Hopefully, with these basic tips, you can take much better care of your business finances and get more out of the profits you make as a business.

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Karen

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I hope that you have found this article helpful, and will use this advice to make sure that your business has everything it needs to succeed.