Your financials should be handling many business details, informing your current status and suggesting future actions. Try this quick financials best practice checklist to see if financials could do more for your business
Financials can help manage day to day business processes so you can focus on running your business
Some ways to streamline your financials include:
- Use Readysell cash book to balance your cash at bank figures
- Use Readysell general ledger for your financial reporting
- If you are using cash basis GST reporting consider moving to accrued basis GST reporting.
- Cloud Payroll with KeyPay allows your employees to print their own reports and group certificates
- Batch email sale invoices to customers at the end of each day
- Batch email statements at end of month
- Your customers know how to reprint their own invoices and statements from a website
- Bank reconciliation automatically matched against the bank
- Supplier payments automatically generated and transmitted to the bank Via ABA file
- Weekly automatic email to customers with overdue accounts
Financials can inform you about current business issues
Ensure that you regularly check:
- Aged debtors position once a week
- Aged supplier balances. Compare your supplier to debtor balances to see if money coming in from customers will be sufficient go cover payments to suppliers
- Profit and loss report. In particular look at trends in revenue and expenses.
- Cash at bank
Financials can only work for you if your bookkeeper has the necessary skill and training
It might be worth changing or training your bookkeeper so you can get the most benefit from your Financials. Your book keeper should be:
- Well trained in Readysell financials. Unless they are properly trained bookkeepers tend to develop bad habits and may not use the system as well as possible
- If possible trained in bookkeeping.
- A detail person who completes all tasks in a timely and organised manner. Financial errors or delays cost you money, perhaps a lot of money
- Using profit and loss reports to track revenue and expenses. Don't wait to end of year, by then any damage is already done. Ensure your book keeper informs you about any important trends
- Aware of your business information requirements. At least once a month they should report to you on accounts that are overdue, debtors vs. supplier balances, your cash position
- Reporting to you when they notice exceptions that you should be considering
- Make some effort to keep you with changes in tax and financial reporting requirements
- Suggesting ways you can improve your financial and business processes.