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Stop the Cash Flow Roller Coaster, I Want to Get Off!: What Every Small Business Owner Should Know About Cash Flow…But Most Don’t

Now if you run a retail business that generates immediate cash from each sale then cash flow and profit and loss statments will more closely reflect each other. But if your business is in the position of having to bill your customers and then waiting to get paid then cash flow becomes the more important of the two.

So that we can fully explain what cash flow is we’ll compare it to a profit and loss statement. Over the course of a month or year you’ll make sales to customers and you’ll bill them at either the time of the sale or once the order is filled depending on the business you’re in and the accounting methods you use. When you buy something or pay someone you account for the money right away even if you have thirty days to pay them. Again this depends on your accounting methods but for many small businesses this is the simplest method of accounting to use. Once a bill comes due you pay it.

With cash flow we don’t worry about what is billed but instead we worry about how much money is actually collected. On the other end we worry about how much money we actually give to our vendors, employees and other people we owe money to. To stay in business we have to keep paying them. We may be late on occassion but that bill isn’t going anywhere till we pay it. So cash flow in it’s most basic form is how much money we collect and how much money we send out. For businesses in a position of having to extend credit this can cause a problem. Not every customer you have will be able to pay you on time.

It is totally possible for a company to show a profit while in fact losing it’s shirt. Inevitably your going to have customers that can’t pay their bills on time. This of course can be for any number of reasons. The one’s you’ll need to watch out for are the one’s that don’t have the money to pay you. That’s the one you could end up facing yourself if you’re not careful.

Ideally the amount billed in a given month and the amount collected will be virtually the same or you’ll have collected more than you sent out. Then it’s a simple matter of managing your expenses. If we lived in a perfect world than that would be the way it goes but we know better. What you as the owner of your business need to do is to effectively manage your cash flow. You need to make sure that what you are spending isn’t exceeding what you are collecting not what you’re billing. Hopefully you have a credit line with your bank that can help alleviate the problem but if not you need to be very careful or you might wind up using something like your credit cards to help cover the bills. This can only be considered a short tern fix. But it will compound the problem later.

So while your profit and loss statements are in themselves just as important as ever the real gauge of your companies immediate health might better be found in your cash flow statement. Because ending up with a negative number on that balance could eventually leave your bank account empty.

Late payments can be crippling in more ways than one. If the problem is not addressed by setting up a method of prevention in the first place, serious problems will ensue; problems that will affect the profitability of your business, because you will be spending valuable time and resources chasing money and losing interest. And more worryingly, these problems could lead to difficulties obtaining credit.

Prevention is better than cure; make sure you have clear terms of business that set out your payment terms, and ensure you enforce those terms. Take action to collect any debts promptly so that customers realise they cannot take liberties.

Ensure invoices are sent out regularly; don?t delay in sending them as soon as an order or job is completed.

Keep track of your invoicing and payments due: make sure you have a record of who to invoice and when and when their payment is due. Also, keep a record of how long individual customers take to pay so that next time you deal with them, you are ready to face any payment issues before problems arise.

And if you do not have the time to dedicate to managing a cash flow programme, outsource to a company that does. Your bookkeeper will certainly be able to help you put a plan in place and may even be able to manage the whole thing for you so that you can get on with running your business and concentrating on the work side of things, whilst someone else takes care of getting the most out of your business? profitability.

The Small Business Accounting essentially includes three major financial measures- Profit and Loss Statement, Balance Sheet and the Cash Flow Statement. The Profit and Loss Statement illustrates whether the business at small scale is money making or not. This statement is a testimonial that speaks the truth about the business i.e. how the business is going on and further covers certain time period, either quarterly or monthly.

While the Balance Sheet shows the worth of the business. It is the statement which lists all the liabilities as well as assets of the business at a specific point of time. The Cash Flow Statement gives an idea regarding the future cash balance of the business at small scale. It is the statement that covers the upcoming period of time and thereby predicts the future capital requirements of the small business enterprise prior to the necessity actually arises.

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