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Actual for You - I Run A Small Business - What Information Should I Get From My Bookkeeping Or Accounting System?
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HM Customs and Revenue would expect to see a separate account for your business. In the event of an inquiry they would probably ask to see your business bank statements. If everything is in order it would be unusual to have to provide them with your private bank statements.
From your own point of view, it is much easier to separate things and make sure all business expenses are included in the accounts if you run a separate business bank account.
How do I handle quotes/estimates?
If you are preparing quotes on a word processor, a proper system should make your business much more efficient. Your estimates should be easily converted into invoices (or part invoices). No more time wasted checking on the original quote.
How do I handle credit control?
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Unfortunately, fraud does sometimes happen in small businesses. It tends to happen when a busy business owner puts complete trust in someone, and completely 'leaves them to it'. The employee comes to realize that no one is really checking or overseeing what they are doing, and when a grievance occurs or money problems arise at home, they succumb to temptation.
Firstly, keep the means of payment under your own control whilst your business is small enough. Keep your cheque books locked in a drawer. If someone else writes the cheques, check they are all accounted for, instruct that any defaced cheques should have 'cancelled' written on them and stapled at the back of the book, rather than thrown away. For electronic payments, keep the password private. Ask for original documentation to be presented (invoices, delivery notes, statements as appropriate) at the time you make payment.
When your business reaches a size that you cannot personally control the payments, make sure there is segregation of duties. For example one person enters the purchase invoices and prepares the payment run/cheques, a different person signs the cheques and reconciles the bank account.
What reports should I be looking at?
The profit and loss account shows how well (or badly) things are going. However, looking at a profit figure in isolation isn't really very useful. If you were to be told you were on a journey and you were currently in Darlington....would that be good or bad? It's much the same with profit and loss. A figure doesn't mean very much unless you add the context of where you are coming from and where you are hoping to get to. So you really want to see a profit & loss account for the month compared to profit & loss for the same month last year. Or look at year to date profit & loss compared to year to date for the same period last year.
If you really want to get serious - plan what you want to achieve. You are much much more likely to achieve it if you plan for it and commit it to writing. The plan in the form of numbers is what is known as a budget.
If you are serious about your business, and have a budget, look at a report showing year to date profit and loss against the budget.
Other reports you definitely should look at each month are the aged debtors report (how much your customers owe you and how old the debts are) and a sales by customer report (the Pareto principle usually applies where most of your sales will come from a small number of customers).
Should I have stock control?
This is a difficult question to answer...........it depends.
Maintaining proper stock control is not easy, it requires a system and it requires discipline. Computer system costs are now at a level where even the smallest shop can afford to implement a full stock control system. However do they have the technical ability to operate it and the motivation and discipline to stick with it?
For a business that is prepared to go through the 'pain barrier' the benefits are
- Advise customers at time of ordering on stock situation
- Reorder stock at the right time
- Have the stock figure available each month for the accounts
- Be aware of margins, and therefore get early warning on potential problems
- Increase potential for bank borrowing, with security over stock
HM Customs and Revenue would expect to see a separate account for your business. In the event of an inquiry they would probably ask to see your business bank statements. If everything is in order it would be unusual to have to provide them with your private bank statements.
From your own point of view, it is much easier to separate things and make sure all business expenses are included in the accounts if you run a separate business bank account.
How do I handle quotes/estimates?
If you are preparing quotes on a word processor, a proper system should make your business much more efficient. Your estimates should be easily converted into invoices (or part invoices). No more time wasted checking on the original quote.
How do I handle credit control?
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Meteorologists claim, you can tell when you’re about to get hit by lightening: The little hairs on the back of your neck stand straight up, a sure sign that the air around you has become electrically charged.Ditto for the workplace. You can tell when your company is about to go into a downsizing storm and start zapping employees (although by the time the little hairs stand up on your neck, you’re probably already in the middle of your exit interview), Here are ten sure-fire ways to predict that your company is about to ignite the firing fireworks. You go out to dinner and see one of your company’s investors waiting tables. You’re offered a latera
When your business reaches a size that you cannot personally control the payments, make sure there is segregation of duties. For example one person enters the purchase invoices and prepares the payment run/cheques, a different person signs the cheques and reconciles the bank account.
What reports should I be looking at?
The profit and loss account shows how well (or badly) things are going. However, looking at a profit figure in isolation isn't really very useful. If you were to be told you were on a journey and you were currently in Darlington....would that be good or bad? It's much the same with profit and loss. A figure doesn't mean very much unless you add the context of where you are coming from and where you are hoping to get to. So you really want to see a profit & loss account for the month compared to profit & loss for the same month last year. Or look at year to date profit & loss compared to year to date for the same period last year.
If you really want to get serious - plan what you want to achieve. You are much much more likely to achieve it if you plan for it and commit it to writing. The plan in the form of numbers is what is known as a budget.
If you are serious about your business, and have a budget, look at a report showing year to date profit and loss against the budget.
Other reports you definitely should look at each month are the aged debtors report (how much your customers owe you and how old the debts are) and a sales by customer report (the Pareto principle usually applies where most of your sales will come from a small number of customers).
Should I have stock control?
This is a difficult question to answer...........it depends.
Maintaining proper stock control is not easy, it requires a system and it requires discipline. Computer system costs are now at a level where even the smallest shop can afford to implement a full stock control system. However do they have the technical ability to operate it and the motivation and discipline to stick with it?
For a business that is prepared to go through the 'pain barrier' the benefits are
- Advise customers at time of ordering on stock situation
- Reorder stock at the right time
- Have the stock figure available each month for the accounts
- Be aware of margins, and therefore get early warning on potential problems
- Increase potential for bank borrowing, with security over stock
HM Customs and Revenue would expect to see a separate account for your business. In the event of an inquiry they would probably ask to see your business bank statements. If everything is in order it would be unusual to have to provide them with your private bank statements.
From your own point of view, it is much easier to separate things and make sure all business expenses are included in the accounts if you run a separate business bank account.
How do I handle quotes/estimates?
If you are preparing quotes on a word processor, a proper system should make your business much more efficient. Your estimates should be easily converted into invoices (or part invoices). No more time wasted checking on the original quote.
How do I handle credit control?
Lanyards are a very useful invention in our every day lives. If you think about it some of the most simplest conceptions ever made have the greatest impact on our daily lives. Consider the spoon with a fork. They are actually very uncomplicated in design and yet you cannot really live without them (if you're not a caveperson that is).Lanyards are deceptively simple, in fact their very usage is limited only to your imagination. Not only can use them as a neck chain to hold your keys, your wallet, your photo ID, your identification card, or even your grocery list, but did you also know that Lanyards can be used in industry as well? Lanyards are used to carry things
If you really want to get serious - plan what you want to achieve. You are much much more likely to achieve it if you plan for it and commit it to writing. The plan in the form of numbers is what is known as a budget.
If you are serious about your business, and have a budget, look at a report showing year to date profit and loss against the budget.
Other reports you definitely should look at each month are the aged debtors report (how much your customers owe you and how old the debts are) and a sales by customer report (the Pareto principle usually applies where most of your sales will come from a small number of customers).
Should I have stock control?
This is a difficult question to answer...........it depends.
Maintaining proper stock control is not easy, it requires a system and it requires discipline. Computer system costs are now at a level where even the smallest shop can afford to implement a full stock control system. However do they have the technical ability to operate it and the motivation and discipline to stick with it?
For a business that is prepared to go through the 'pain barrier' the benefits are
- Advise customers at time of ordering on stock situation
- Reorder stock at the right time
- Have the stock figure available each month for the accounts
- Be aware of margins, and therefore get early warning on potential problems
- Increase potential for bank borrowing, with security over stock
HM Customs and Revenue would expect to see a separate account for your business. In the event of an inquiry they would probably ask to see your business bank statements. If everything is in order it would be unusual to have to provide them with your private bank statements.
From your own point of view, it is much easier to separate things and make sure all business expenses are included in the accounts if you run a separate business bank account.
How do I handle quotes/estimates?
If you are preparing quotes on a word processor, a proper system should make your business much more efficient. Your estimates should be easily converted into invoices (or part invoices). No more time wasted checking on the original quote.
How do I handle credit control?
Starting a business is a scary and exciting time. It takes a leap of faith, but also offers up the hope of successfully doing something you love. Still, there are things to be wary of.When taking the leap of faith on a business, people will often look to friends to join them. There are a couple of reasons for this. The first is it is nice to have someone hanging it all on the line with you. The second is the friend may have a particularly skill that looks attractive in relation to the business. The third is the most common, the friend has money! Regardless, many businesses are kick started with two or more friends as owners. Is this smart?There is an old cl
This is a difficult question to answer...........it depends.
Maintaining proper stock control is not easy, it requires a system and it requires discipline. Computer system costs are now at a level where even the smallest shop can afford to implement a full stock control system. However do they have the technical ability to operate it and the motivation and discipline to stick with it?
For a business that is prepared to go through the 'pain barrier' the benefits are
- Advise customers at time of ordering on stock situation
- Reorder stock at the right time
- Have the stock figure available each month for the accounts
- Be aware of margins, and therefore get early warning on potential problems
- Increase potential for bank borrowing, with security over stock
HM Customs and Revenue would expect to see a separate account for your business. In the event of an inquiry they would probably ask to see your business bank statements. If everything is in order it would be unusual to have to provide them with your private bank statements.
From your own point of view, it is much easier to separate things and make sure all business expenses are included in the accounts if you run a separate business bank account.
How do I handle quotes/estimates?
If you are preparing quotes on a word processor, a proper system should make your business much more efficient. Your estimates should be easily converted into invoices (or part invoices). No more time wasted checking on the original quote.
How do I handle credit control?
For those of you who are involved in the medical billing industry and don't know what barcoding has to do with your job, hopefully, this installment on barcoding will give you just enough information to be informed and not so much as to confuse the stuffing out of you. Barcoding is kind of a behind the scenes process that ties in to your retail sales operation, if you have one.The medical industry has been shortchanged. No doubt about it. While we can walk into a supermarket and pick up just about any item and find a UPC, or Universal Product Code, the same can't be said about all medical items. Yes, there are many that do use the UPC code to stamp the item's
HM Customs and Revenue would expect to see a separate account for your business. In the event of an inquiry they would probably ask to see your business bank statements. If everything is in order it would be unusual to have to provide them with your private bank statements.
From your own point of view, it is much easier to separate things and make sure all business expenses are included in the accounts if you run a separate business bank account.
How do I handle quotes/estimates?
If you are preparing quotes on a word processor, a proper system should make your business much more efficient. Your estimates should be easily converted into invoices (or part invoices). No more time wasted checking on the original quote.
How do I handle credit control?
If your business gives credit to customers, then credit control is an important issue. Indeed, if you fail to address this, it could well lead to the failure of your business. You need to think about the following points:
- How do we decide whether to give a customer credit?
- How much credit to give each customer?
- How do we deal with customers who exceed their credit limit?
- Should we charge interest on overdue payments?
- Who deals with overdue accounts?
Implement a credit control policy which addresses the questions above. This will ensure you handle your credit account customers effectively and consistently.
Often the only effective way to make sure a small business owner gets all the information he or she needs is to outsource the bookkeeping. For more information see the bookkeeping.org.uk website.
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