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Year End Planning Part 2
Take some paper and make a list of all the things you have not achieved or got around to doing this year. This is not a guilt trip or a way to highlight your failures, [...]
Year End Reflection Time
And into December we go. And as predicted there are always a bunch of memes, blogs and articles telling us to pause, reflect and plan. Some of them good and some not so. But here [...]
Are you Planning to Fail?
The old saying: “Failing to plan is planning to fail” is never truer than it is in these busy, fast moving times in the economy. If you and your business do not have clear-cut plans [...]
Do you manage your business based on your financial information?
Financial management is, for most business owners, something that is never done well or at all. Knowing your numbers has been the take home lesson for a lot of the contestants on the Mnet Shark [...]
Questions to ask your accountant
As a business owner, how often do you chat to your accountant about the financial management of your business? When you do, what do you chat about? Here are some key questions to ask then at your [...]
Show me the Money
We see too often how entrepreneurs and business owners are tripped up in their presentations when asked about the money side of their business. We just do not seem to have a good grip on [...]
How Legal is your Business?
If you were asked today to produce all your companies registration papers, latest Tax certificate, staff contracts, health and safety compliance and a BBBEEE certificate, how long would it take to get these copied and [...]
The 3 P’s of your back office
Getting your business defined is not just about the products and sales pipelines: you also need to define very clear processes, procedures and policies that will govern how your business is run when you are [...]