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How to Manage and Control Your Cash Flow

  Controlling Cash Flow is Essential to Success Small businesses are often strapped for cash. A critical business imperative is to control cash flow and not just manage it. As any business matures, various factors affect cash flow, some being growing operating costs, direct product costs (cost of goods), staffing/labor, product and service pricing as…

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10 Ways to Increase the Working Capital in Your Small Business

Improve Cash Flow and Enhance Working Capital With These Strategies The working capital of a business is the cash available to spend immediately. In accounting terms, working capital is defined as the current assets, less the current liabilities. If you have negative working capital, your business is in serious trouble. But merely having positive working…

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How to Ease Your Company’s Cash Flow Issues

5 Strategies to Lessen Your Financial Problems Cash flow issues are a problem for many business owners. Even companies with steady clientele can run into this issue. Fortunately, there are ways to maintain control and keep operations running as usual. Here are five ways you can do just that: 1. Make it Easy for Clients…

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9 Tips to Recession-Proof Your Business

  From Cutting Costs to Collecting on Payments, How to Survive an Economic Downturn Since the coronavirus outbreak, we’ve seen the sharpest economic contraction in modern history with a staggering 32.9% drop in the GDP. As a business owner, you may be suffering from the effects of the extensive economic downtown and wondering what you…

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Accounts Receivable Financing: A Quick Way To Control Cash Flow

Sell Your Accounts Receivable for Steady Cash Flow No two companies are exactly alike. Even similar companies serving the same industry can have vastly different ways of earning money, completely different spending strategies and differing ways of handling accounts receivable. That’s the beauty of the business world, but also the bane of many commercial financial…

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Common Scams That Target Small Businesses

Protect Your Business Against Potential Threats You spend lots of time and effort in building up your business. Don’t let scammers ruin your reputation and damage your bottom line. Scammers are known to target businesses of all sizes. To protect yourself against these offenders, learn about the tell-tale signs that are typical of a scam…

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How to Avoid Bankruptcy During Difficult Times

Tips to Shore Up Your Business Finances Bankruptcy has always been intended as a “last resort” measure for avoiding total insolvency and financial ruin. It’s an important safety net for emergency situations, but it does come at the cost of a big hit to your credit score and ability to secure financing for the following…

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Crisis Strategies to Get Your Business Back on Track

Tips to Help Your Business Exit a Crisis Stage Crises are realities that businesses either come face to face with or flirt with over their life cycle. These are conditions that present serious challenges to the business owner and its staff. How you respond to crises is going to define how your company grows and…

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Fake Invoice Scams: Is Your Business at Risk?

Take these Steps to Protect Your Business from Invoice Fraud Invoice fraud is making big headlines in the wake of Google and Facebook getting tricked out of a combined $123 million. It’s a scam that costs small businesses billions each year. Fake invoice scams are a simple but effective way for criminals to obtain money…

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How to Choose the Best Tax Preparer for Your Business

  Maximizing Profits in Your Small Business Whether you are evaluating your investment returns or trying to improve your small business, it’s not how much you make but how much you get to keep. If your small business makes $500,000 a year but you lose more than half to taxes, you could end up just…