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How
An Accountant can find the hidden opportunities in your business
Finding the existing true potential of your financial success by
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In the course of running a business, financial opportunities
are constantly created. Yet, many go unnoticed and for this, don't
get utilized.
It has been said that the greatest "expense" for any company
is the income and profit they FAIL to make.
The savings achieved by lowering costs could be positively dwarfed
by the earnings you can sometimes get from utilizing positive
trends within the business.
But that requires they're found fast enough and used correctly enough.
What you already achieve is laudable. Your hard work and skilful
management have provided you with the business that you currently
have.
I'm definitely NOT putting it down but, instead, want to acknowledge
you for it. To keep going in better and worse economic
times totally DEPENDS upon enterprising people just like you.
In today's atmosphere, it is easily forgotten how important your
work is for everyone. You don't get acknowledged for it - but you
know how it is.
It's perfectly all right NOT to seek more.
But, on the other hand, most business activities CAN be got to produce
more turnover and profit with the resources and cash flow that they
already have.
Constant financial monitoring
with slight adjustments to make the most out of positive developments
All in all, improving the conditions of a business
activity works much like maintaining and fine-tuning a fine engine.
Mind you, I'm not talking about HUGE CHANGES here at all.
The adjustments will generally be so small and
so exactly targeted that it won't SEEM like anything
would change.
Instead, it's rather like a maintenance project.
Monitoring the key figures, analyzing any expected
(or unexpected) improvements to find the successful ingredient
and then simply strengthen it.
The same principle applies to costs. Keeping a vigilant eye on all
the costs can only result in LOWERING costs, which,
of course, will immediately affect your PROFIT MARGIN quite nicely.
In other words, it is a constant routine to go over the key figures
and look into each nook and cranny on monthly basis to
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ENSURE nothing has started changing
for the worse |
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FIND any new positive developments |
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FIND THE CAUSE of any positive trend |
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STRENGTHEN that successful action or thing in
order to make the increased profit and / or income CONTINUE...
and hopefully become PERMANENT. |
In financial planning, the results come NOT from drastic actions
but from constant monitoring and slight adjustments wherever
and whenever needed.
Of course, YOU decide whether or not an adjustment is actually
MADE.
The Accounting Professional's part is to monitor the key figures
constantly to FIND where profits can be improved.
The sooner these are found, the more you can benefit.
Financial success is formed from routines, really. The monitoring
and analysing of your monthly accounts are necessary to get ENOUGH
of those routines and "once-overs" to fine-tune your business
activity to produce profits with forever increasing efficiency-ratio.
And... wouldn't it be good to KNOW these things on monthly
basis?
Constantly monitoring the key figures isn't all that exciting -
but getting the good turns reported immediately and implementing
easy systems to improve your profits and turnover... that IS quite
inspiring.
Especially when you SEE the results of your careful financial planning!
Seeking forever higher ability
of financial planning
Have you ever had that feeling that the TRUE potential
of your business activity is even greater than what you already
achieve with it?
That there's something you could cash in on right now... if only
you could put your finger on it?
Trust your instinct.
No matter how well you do, no matter how expert you are in financial
planning, this is an area where there are NO LIMITS to how
much better you can do!
Admittedly, it can be quite DIFFICULT TO SEE the opportunities in
one's OWN business.
One tends to get USED to things as they are and forget to look at
every single part of the activity each month from a present-time
viewpoint.
Things change constantly and, with that change of times, new opportunities
open up and come to be.
ANY aspect of one's own business can benefit from an outside
viewpoint. People see things differently and it can be
very useful to hear those opinions. This is quite often used in
marketing, for example, to bring out the clients' viewpoint.
In financial planning, there's an additional reason to use an EXPERT
to go over your key financial figures monthly. Accounting is a science
in its own right and monitoring monthly accounts benefits
enormously from financial expertise and experience.
That experience is something you'll want to work for
your benefit.
It not only saves you LOADS of time. It can also MAKE quite a bit
of money.
ANY change for the better in your monthly financial key figures
points to an opportunity. For instance, if customers buy more often,
it means that customer satisfaction has increased. If you look into
it and find the CAUSE of it, you can STRENGTHEN that which brought
on the positive increase... and get more of it.
As a rule, any business activity will be found NOT to utilize many
(or most) of their opportunities that their own good work brings
to be.
Some opportunities are time-sensitive and go lost unless utilized
within the window of opportunity. Other prospects are "competitor-sensitive"
- the one who notices and uses the opening will reap the majority
of benefits available.
And some possibilities are simply ways to shave off a few overhead
pounds here and there, directly increasing your profit margin.
These opportunities are born within your business activity constantly.
But to get the benefits, they must be FOUND as soon as possible.
And it doesn't hurt to have a financial expert give you some pointers
on how best utilize the opportunities your own hard work has created!
Going over your finances thoroughly once a month needn't take much
time. It needn't be complicated and it's the accountant's responsibility
to make it simple and organized.
But it WILL produce several desirable results.
An expert going through your figures on continuous basis, bringing
you the found opportunities and helping you to figure out how to
utilize these... isn't it BOUND to bring some results?
And what about the learning value of this ongoing financial consulting?
Don't you think you'd actually learn the effective, practical financial
planning for YOUR company more and more by each month that passes?
A good accounting service will GIVE these - and don't you
settle for anything less, either!
Be sure to make it absolutely clear that the accountant's responsibility
is to monitor or FIND these opportunities but that YOU retain the
full control of what gets DONE.
After all, no one knows your business and strong points better than
you. And you're the governor, the boss - it's your business.
LOCATING the opportunities within your financial structure is best
done by an outside financial expert. Which ones you utilize, when,
and which way you put them to use is your decision.
What an Accounting Professional can
do for you...
Shouldn't an accountant really act as an aide, standing by your
side, backing you up every single working day by
providing precisely the right information you need to
make the decisions that day-to-day business life calls
for?
Wouldn't it be easier to do your own work if you had such backup,
receiving all the key information in a compact, easy-to-use form?
Shouldn't the accountant be a strong ally fighting on your
behalf at a moment's notice, taking on any challenge and
bringing you the solution?
Wouldn't it be faster to run the business this way?
Mightn't it be easier and even more FUN having
a trained expert constantly monitor your finances and report immediately
when there's a slightest upward trend so that you could take instant
action to utilize it right away?
Imagine if you had a better grasp of what was needed to push your
own business towards the goals you have set for it and the terminology
of accounting wouldn't stop the benefits it can actually give to
you month to month...
Imagine being able to make in-depth decisions faster and more accurately,
finding positive trends and potentials almost instantly to make
the most out of them...
Now, isn't that what you have always wanted from your accountant
but thought you could never afford it?
Well, I've got good news for you: It isn't at all that expensive.
It might even be LESS than what you're paying for your monthly accounts
currently!
That, even taking into consideration the fact that the COST of accounting
is really calculated NOT only from what the accounting bills you
but also how much money he saves you, don't you
think?
And, come to think of it, how is financial success actually
created?
Isn't it really built from constant alertness and ongoing
small adjustments for the better... kept up long enough?
After a few months and years, with results accumulating more or
less continuously... well, you do the math!
If you feel such an accounting service would make a world of difference,
if you see it as one of those effective ingredients of CONTINUED
success... then you already have an idea of what to ask from your
accounting service and what it can achieve within a few months.
Care to have a taste of what
you could really get from your Accounting service?
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Salim Omar, CPA
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49 Cliffwood Avenue, Suite 200
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