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This Blog is a collection of useful articles from over ten years giving you part business advice, part business coaching, a wee bit of accounting, and usually a dash of fun. Search up topics you need, there are lots of checklists and how-tos some popular groups are:
- Sexy Accounting
- Profit v Margin
- Budgeting Better
- Cash-flow Help
- Debt Collection
- Business Troubleshooting
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Eve Diamond
Sexy Accounting – Here is how
Don't think sexy accounting is possible? Here are some of your suggestions.... In my recent post I asked the question Are there ways to bring the Sexy back into Accounting? There was a surprisingly high level of traffic and number of responses across various linked-in forums.
Age doesn’t matter – its MATURITY that counts…
How mature is your Business? With business maturity comes greater effectiveness and efficiency - so it becomes more profitable! Improving business maturity, means striving towards a business that is responsive to the market, transparent, low risk, lean and people focused. Micro-businesses start out operating at the Basic
Bringing the Sexy back into Accounting
Sex sells, what about bringing the sexy back into Accounting? I have just read two unrelated blogs in the last 1/2 hour about "Bringing the sexy back"...one on metrics and the other about newspapers...* So I got wondering what "Sexy" really means, (especially in the context
5 Benchmarking Tips for getting started
Benchmarking tips to ensure you review ALL your business Don't just find out what your competitors are doing... use these tips to Benchmark Well! A benchmarking exercise aims to identify the best internal and external practices, by compiling performance data, financial results and other metrics. Once we
Reducing Costs – 7 key questions to get you started
Start with Labour when Reducing Costs In budgeting especially, and also in cost analysis, we often review and assess costs based on Activity; - sales made, appointments seen, customers gained. Why is staffing frequently over-looked as a management lever, when it is such a big part of
Budget Variance – This is what to do next
Budget Variance Analysis Oh No - it doesn't look like I thought it would!!! You built a budget, and took the time to get your actuals entered.- Now you can see there are differences between the two - what next? Understand the process, don't just stare at
