In my last blog post we discussed why you should read and analyze your Balance Sheet. Now we’ll discuss how to use it in your business. Each month you should compare your current Balance Sheet to the prior month and to the prior year the same month. How does the current Balance Sheet compare? Hopefully [...]

How often do you review your Balance Sheet? Is it monthly, quarterly, yearly or never? The Balance Sheet is the ugly stepsister to the Income Statement. Every business owner wants to know how much money they have in the bank. They may even review the Income Statement and perform ratio analysis to gain more information [...]

Financing is typically divided into two different categories, Debt Financing and Equity Financing. Understanding the different financing options is a critical step in a company’s financial planning strategy. Debt Financing involves borrowing money that will be paid back over time. The debt can be short term (less than one year) or long term (more than [...]

When you purchase supplies the transaction is an easy one from an accounting stand point. You use cash, credit card or vendor credit to make the purchase and report the supplies as an expense on your income statement. Most business transactions in accounting make sense. But one that trips up business owners and students is [...]

What does the term net worth mean? And why is it something a business owner should pay attention too? The actual definition of net worth is: total assets minus any total liabilities. Unfortunately, this is not helpful to those unfamiliar with accounting terminology. Let’s take a closer look at this. Net worth is a combination of money [...]

Debt is a word that many business owners do not want to use to describe their financial position, yet managing and monitoring debt is a task that small business owners tend to avoid. In general, debt that is due and payable within the next 12 months is called Current Liabilities. Paying these debts will probably [...]

Potential investors, lenders, stock holders, and business owners all like to know how well a company is doing financially. One way to determine the financial performance of a company is to review the Balance Sheet. The Balance Sheet is basically a snap shot of the items a company owns, owes and the difference between the [...]