Cash Flow

Strategy 1: 

Adopt these 'healthy' practices to get your cash flowing:   

  1. Profit margins: with the current ever-increasing costs of doing business, it’s critical to have true-cost pricing. Don’t let your profit margins be eaten away.  

Whether it’s the price of eggs, utilities or wages, you need to consider how to manage the increased cost of doing Business. 

  • Firstly, do you know what your profit margin is for your business?  
  • Secondly, do you know your profit margins for the goods and services that you offer?
  • Thirdly, which project lines are not profitable and are affecting your business?

Tips:  

  • Regularly check the cost of goods and products and determine realistic profit margins by setting prices not too low or too high.  
  • Pricing points are needed to keep you competitive and ‘in the red’.  
  • Be balanced, with inflation affecting your purchases you need to increase your sale prices accordingly.   
  • Offer value for money and your customers will keep coming back!  
  • Contact Blackburn Accounting to help you to work this out.

Watch for more in this series!