Selling your accounting services in a virtual world Selling accounting services today is very different from how it used to be. Firstly, most interactions take place digitally, and secondly, the market itself has changed. Clients behave differently and expect different … Read More
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Understanding Financial Year-End
One of the biggest parts of a smooth and successful financial year-end is understanding it. We are going to dive right into what a financial year-end is and the importance of it. A financial year, also known as a fiscal … Read More
Insights from a Small to Medium Enterprise Owner
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A look at 2019’s Financial growth and how it could impact 2020
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SME advice on growing your business
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Effects our tips can have on your Business
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Growing your Business
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Software to help manage your business’ finances
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Tips on managing your finances
We don’t need to stress to you the importance of having your finances in order when starting up and running your own business. Being on top of your finances and managing them correctly is the first step to success and making sure you’re never in a bad financial situation. Here are our top 5 tips on managing your finances.
1. Create a budget
Our tips begin with: create a budget if you haven’t already. Why is it necessary? Well, are windshield wipers necessary in the rain? Trust us, you need one.
Creating and sticking to a budget might seem a little tough to achieve at first but it pays off in the end. Budgeting helps us see with clarity and full transparency our financial situation and this is of most importance for better managing your money.
2. Understand your expenses
Many people actually don’t know the total amount of expenses they generate on any given month. This is a problem but there is an easy solution for it. Take all your receipts and look at your bank statements and add up all of your expenses. Remember to keep track of all expenses paid either with cash or card, this is very important as this will allow you to see the whole picture and know how to manage your expenses in the future.
3. Consolidate your debt
Debt, the dreaded word. No one likes debt. Most people that need help managing money actually need help getting out of debt. Sound familiar?
The first thing to do is to get it under control and work on getting rid of it. If you have credit card debts, student loans, and other debts; look to consolidate them and try to get the lowest interest rate possible.
4. Get rid of unnecessary expenses
Paying for a gym membership but doing yoga in your backyard? Cancel it. Think long and hard of other memberships, subscriptions, accounts that you are paying for but could live without.
The idea is to learn how to manage your finances better by taking every cent into account.
5. Use a tool or personal finance app
Your finances are already complicated, lets uncomplicated them.
How?
There are tools out there that will show you ways to manage money as well as do all the hard budgeting and computational work for you.
Take EasyBiz’s products for example. Depending on the package you decide on, there are countless ways our packages can help you manage your money, essentially turning you into your own accountant and allowing you to stay on top of your financial situations at all times. Check them out here: EasyBiz Tech
Overall, stay well-informed, practice good financial management, and one day it will pay off (pun intended). Being able to effectively manage your money will make life flow much more smoothly, not to mention help lower your stress levels. Being well-organized will also save you time and save you headaches in the future.
EasyBiz Training – how to get the most out of your software
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