Managing your business finances is a crucial part of business success. It helps you to keep cash flowing in and reduce the amount that flows out of your business. Here are a few financial tips to help you build a solid foundation for your business in 2023.
Business Owners: Check Your Money Mindset
A money mindset is your deep-seated beliefs about money. These beliefs can consciously and unconsciously affect your business goals and financial decisions. For example, suppose you believe only billion-dollar corporations have the ability to draw in multi-million-dollar clients. In that case, you may bar your business from chasing great opportunities when they appear.
Similarly, if you believe you have to spend money to make money, you may find yourself overspending instead of finding innovative solutions.
If your attitude toward making and spending money negatively affects your business, it’s time to make some changes.
Create a Budget and Financial Plan
Budgets and Financial Plans are more than just dry tasks and limits on spending. They help you gauge where you are, where you are going, and where you want to be. It also shows your best money opportunities and where you need to cut back on spending! While making your plans, make sure to:
- Create Your retirement strategy to safeguard against the future.
- Have emergency savings for your business to keep it afloat when a crisis hits.
- Find and manage investment opportunities and leverage your assets
Find Your Business Debts and Eliminate Them
Your business value is in its equity. Equity is based on all your assets minus all its liabilities. In other words, your business value increases as you reduce the debts it owes to others. You can reduce your business debt in a variety of ways, including but not limited to the following:
- Shop around and renegotiate contracts as they expire.
- Analyze equipment. Upgrade your equipment when the cost of replacing them is cheaper than maintenance and repair costs for a year.
- Get rid of redundant expenses and consolidate services.
- Communicate with suppliers regularly. See how to qualify for discounts or deferred payments.
Find Your Business Income Opportunities and Chase Them
As you eliminate your debts, find innovative ways to increase your business income.
- Stay on top of industry trends and your top competition. Know what is working for them. More importantly, know where they fall short and find innovative ways to fill those gaps!
- Analyze where your best sales are and leverage them into upsells and cross-sales.
- Take a negotiation class to leverage deals with new and existing clients.
- If you haven’t already, find ways to take your goods and services to the digital space. According to the Chamber of Commerce, 85% of shoppers use the internet to find and discover businesses.
Seek Professional Help
It can take you weeks, or even years, to optimize your business finances through trial and error. An experienced financial planner can help entrepreneurs and business owners analyze their current situation, target their business’s strengths and weak points, and help to create a plan to meet their financial goals.
Our RHP financial advisors have the experience and expertise to help you with financial plans, additional financial tips, and other aspects of making your business profitable. Contact us today for a consult!
Disclosure: You should always consult a financial, tax, or legal professional familiar with your unique circumstances before making any financial decisions. This material is intended for educational purposes only. Nothing in this material constitutes a solicitation for the sale or purchase of any securities. Any mentioned rates of return are historical or hypothetical in nature and are not a guarantee of future returns. Past performance does not guarantee future performance. Future returns may be lower or higher. Investments involve risk. Investment values will fluctuate with market conditions, and security positions, when sold, may be worth less or more than their original cost.
