Establishing your own small business is an exciting venture, and everyone is excited to check how far it goes, and how successfully. However, most small business owners know that tackling the accounting and finances of your business is no fun at all. It becomes more and more difficult to manage as your business establishes and takes the road to success.
Below are six ways to clean up your finances and get organized.
- Call up on your tax advisor: to begin with, you need to contact your CPA and get your taxes done and manage your finances. Jot down questions to ask him and seek guidance.
- Do not over invest in your business: try to cut back your costs, minimize your spending, and save as much money as you can. Spending too much can cause financial insecurity, so try and avoid depending completely on business loans, credit cards and your business savings. You must prioritize your business needs and try to cut back where ever you can.
- Avoid mixing your business and personal finances: this can cause a big blunder. The best you can do is to open up a separate bank account for your business finances. This way you can easily manage your business expenses and revenue each month without any mismanagement.
- Set financial goals: this is very important if you want to see if your business finances are heading towards the right direction. You can set financial goals either by: increasing the monthly sales or creating a better budget. For example if you create a budget you know whether you are spending excessively, and if you are, you can easily cut it down in places where you can.
- Use a cloud app to get organized: you can easily find an affordable cloud app in your mobile phone. You can either use Fresh books for invoicing, or Expensify or reporting expenses. However, if you are not sure where you need help, ask yourself the following questions: am I slow to invoice clients, or do I have trouble digging through receipts?
- Let’s not forget about traditional cleaning: Yes! This is very important. When was the last time you cleaned your laptop’s keyboard or wiped of your office desk? Cleaning your worktable and organizing your papers neatly is very important. File each document separately in a neat stack of paper.
Organizing the finances is not something people enjoy, but, once you do that, you will see the difference in the productivity, mindset and bottom line. This way you can focus more on other aspects of running a small business. Running a small business is not a child’s play. You need to carefully plan each and everything and most importantly, manage your finances every month, so that they don’t get clustered. Otherwise, you will end up wasting a week, understanding, managing and organizing them. Take time off your schedule and see the difference.
