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When Is It Time For Your Startup To Stop Relying On In-House Accounting?

YoungUpstarts

by Ryan Stevens, head of operations for Clutch. Most small businesses use cash accounting because it’s the easiest way to track cash flow. Since transactions are recorded at payment, you can track your cash position without adjusting the dates for your bills or invoices. Choose Your Ideal Accounting Resource.

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How to Manage Cash Flow With Accurate Cash Flow Forecast

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Why is cash flow management important? Businesses operate on cash. By cash, I don’t really mean physical coins and bills, but money in your bank account that you are able to spend. How to manage cash flow. Know your cash position. How to create a dynamic, more accurate cash flow forecast.

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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

In business, growth is a big deal, especially when you think about this: Most businesses cease operations and shutter their doors before ever really hitting their stride. But by year 10, just one-third remain in operation. Manage cash flow. At my company, our cash position is reviewed every week, come rain or shine.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

They close on the $750k, hire a buddy or two, buy some Macs, and get to work. Things start to get a little fuzzy in terms of priorities, but not to fret, the new office is coming along really well with all of the hiring! At month six, one of the early hires leaves, a developer who turns out wasn’t a good fit.

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How Much Funding Should You Raise?

Up and Running

You hire more staff than you need, become inefficient with operations, or move to bigger offices. Operating lean should be the mantra of all businesses. The temptation to spend the extra money you have can result in you burning through a large amount of cash with a disproportionate amount of progress and value to show for it.

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10 Things Every Small Business Needs To Do

Up and Running

There are a series of “levers” in your business that will affect your cash position. Take time to think about company culture, and what you want the culture to be, and make sure you bring culture into the hiring decisions. Do you depend on supplies that vary in price due to market conditions (fuel for instance)?

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What to Look for in Equipment Hire Management Software

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One of the prime requirements for an equipment rental software is reliability, which is not as common among the equipment hire software providers as it should be. Then there is also the question of the application being able to cater to the operational, functional and financial needs of specific businesses. Project Estimations.