Managing a Business

Gross Profit Break-Even Template

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Cost Reduction Template

This article is also available as a downloadable PDF, which includes a customizable template to help you apply these tips to your business.  Download Here: Coast Cost Reduction Template Improving your bottom…

Managing a Business

Understand your key financial documents

Your balance sheet and profit and loss statement are two key financial documents, as they help uncover what is going right and what can be improved in your business. Many…

Managing a Business

The essential guide to mitigating risk with insurance

Insurance plays a vital role in safeguarding businesses — transferring financial risks to a third party, and making sure a business remains resilient in the face of uncertainties. Running a business…

Managing a Business

Setting up cashflow warning triggers

Every business will have a particular way of tracking and measuring how their business is performing. If you can identify when key indicators deteriorate to a level that causes concern, you can…

Managing a Business

Planning ahead in a year of uncertainty

When you’re running a business, it can be tough to deal with unforeseen circumstances — and we’ve had our fair share recently, from global health crises to elections to social unrest and…

Managing a Business

Steps to building a sustainable business

The obvious benefit of going green is that you’re helping to save the environment by reducing your carbon footprint. But there are also sensible business benefits to running a sustainable…

Managing a Business

Managing a cash crunch

There are many reasons why small businesses experience sudden cashflow crunches. Identify the reason and solve it If you’re trying to fill your bucket with cash and it’s leaking, it makes sense…

Managing a Business

Manage your debt and get paid on time

One of the most important rules for a successful business is to swiftly collect money that’s owed to you — it should be coming in faster than you’re paying out. This…

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Ultimate Guide | How to manage your business’s cash flow.

As a small business owner, you’re managing cash coming in and out of your business everyday. From the smallest transaction to your monthly storefront rent payment, you need to have…

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How to turn your hobby into a side hustle

Do you have a hobby outside of your regular 9-to-5 that you’re passionate about? Or do you just need some extra cash and have a skillset you can utilize? Well, the…