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September 19, 2024
Keeping financial records up to date often feels like a chore, but when your bookkeeping is kept up to date, your business gains real quantifiable benefits. But what are they? Let’s take a look at a few.
Regular bookkeeping updates ensures that your business’ financial transactions are accurately recorded and categorised. Having up-to-date information will make you aware of your business’ financial health and help you make informed decisions with greater outcome certainty.
By accurately recording and analysing income and expenses, it will be much easier to develop and set a realistic budget, fix financial goals and allocate cash more effectively. Accurate financial data will help you to reach the goals you set for your business now and in the future.
Forecasting and managing cashflow is essential for the financial stability of your business and meeting any short-term cash injection needs. Keeping up-to-date records of income and expenses allows you to monitor your cashflow. By tracking the outflow and inflow of cash you can identify trends and anticipate any cash shortages. This means you will be well placed to take the right decisions when you need to manage your cash through any tight periods.
Accurate and up to date bookkeeping makes sure that you comply with tax and company law requirements. When your accounting records are maintained accurately and kept up to date, it makes tax returns easier to complete and reduces the risk of making mistakes and suffering penalties and attracting unwanted attention.
Over time, if you maintain good standards of bookkeeping you will also be able to use your financial data to give you insights into the businesses sales trends and patterns. In turn this will help you to recognise areas of strength and weakness, whilst identifying any emerging trends. You may be able to evaluate how effective a promotional campaign was, or what effect a pricing change makes. These factors can be a great help in your strategic decision making.
So you can see how good bookkeeping is not just a financial admin task, but it is a fundamental part of good business management practice which can lead to growth and improved financial performance. When you invest in robust bookkeeping systems and processes, including using some of the online software options available, like Xero, you get a lot in return including financial stability and sustainability.
If you need help with any aspect of your bookkeeping then please give us a call. We can help you put the basic elements in place and also introduce the financial analysis and reporting that good bookkeeping brings.
Dave Cuckney
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Cleaneco Group
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