Straightforward and rudimentary bookkeeping measures will go a long way to maintaining your small business’ viability for years and keep your investment growing. It will also help you prepare early on for filing a realistic tax return. Take a look at these following tips:

1. Hire a bookkeeper

Small-business owners take more roles than they can handle, for instance, as manager for accounting, deals, and promotingall-in-one, to save on salaries. At times, though, getting a full-time or outsource bookkeeper might be the better and wiser option as the task requires a deeper and more extensive understanding of books. A outsource your bookkeeper can help you save on salaries more as you pay only when you need the service.

Nevertheless, the little Business Administration can likewise help you manage your costs all alone to save even more.

2. Separate your accounts receivables and borrowed funds

This seems obvious, but many fail to practice this simple step. Small-business owners require financial assistance to cover their start-up capital or operating expenses and other initial business costs. Make sure you use software that does not incorporate income with your loan proceeds. The goal is always to know what belongs to you and what does not. Unlike magnets, active and negative funds do not attract or mix. Keep your eyes on the former (Be Positive!) to cover, that is, remove the latter.

3. Follow-up on clients who have payables

Receivables look good on paper, but they are useless until you have them in your Bank. Make your customers pay regularly, as much as possible. You can enforce this by not delivering materials or services until outstanding balances have been settled. Your personnel in charge with the collection have to stay firm and uncompromising to keep your business viable.

4. Itemize your daily expenses

Detailing your costs on a regular basis (taxes, professional fees, advertising, utilities, etc.) will help you become more aware of what is happening in your finances. That is the role that accounting does for business. So, instead of the bi-weekly computation of salaries, daily or weekly itemized expenses will let your budget ahead more accurately and prepare you for any unforeseen expenses or deficits.

5. Determine a reasonable monthly profit

It takes great effort and patience to operate a business and to maintain a proper accounting system. Develop an efficient accounting strategy which will monitor your expenses and payables to compute for a minimum acceptable income on a monthly basis. Stick to that minimum profit target for your business. Once set, you can concentrate on what needs to be done to achieve that goal on a regular basis.

These are tried and tested steps any beginning small-business owner can put to good use. A simple, well-maintained and practicable accounting system is all one needs to learn the essential tricks of the trade and grow from there to more fruitful gains.

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