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5 key steps to recover EOFY unpaid invoices
With the end of the financial year looming, now is the time for businesses to clean up any outstanding payments. Here are some tips to smooth out the process and improve your cashflow. 1. Communicate clearly with debtors If you expect your customers to be disciplined with payments, it helps if you are meticulous with …
Christmas Cash Flow Planning
Whilst many of us have a list of things to do before Christmas, ensuring there are sufficient funds in the bank is critical to having peace of mind over the holidays, and enjoying our break. It’s a challenge most businesses face: staff and expenses still need to be paid, whether businesses are trading or not. …
Unlocking from COVID – Planning for Christmas Cash Flow
As businesses unlock from lockdown there are many things to sort out before Christmas and ensuring there are sufficient funds in the bank is critical to having peace of mind over the holidays, and enjoying our well earner break with a bit of freedom. It’s a challenge all businesses face: staff and expenses still need …
You’ve sent your invoices, now keep your cash flow healthy
When your business is winning new business, it’s great for your P&L but if you don’t follow up your invoices and get paid, it’s not great for your cash flow. With Jobkeeper payments finishing at the end of March 2021 month, it’s quite likely payments will slow down or in some cases, you will not …
A COVID Christmas – Cash Flow Planning
For business, there are many things to sort out before Christmas and ensuring there are sufficient funds in the bank is critical to having peace of mind over the holidays, and enjoying our break. It’s a challenge all businesses face, staff and expenses still need to be paid, whether businesses are trading or not and …
Cash Flow Checklist
When the holidays are over and we return to work, one of the first things we need to get on top of is the status of our accounts receivable. Whether you’ve been really busy or closed over the holidays, this will inevitably be on your ‘to do’ list. For many businesses, getting through the holidays …
Christmas Cash Flow Planning
Whilst many of us have a list of things to do before Christmas, ensuring there are sufficient funds in the bank is critical to having peace of mind over the holidays, and enjoying our break. It’s a challenge most businesses face: staff and expenses still need to be paid, whether businesses are trading or not. …
When you add it all up, using debt collectors makes sense
If you are like many other business owners and managers, you could be facing a conundrum. Your clients may owe you a significant amount of money and they are ignoring all requests to settle their outstanding debts. But at the same time, you are reluctant to take them to court or call in debt collectors …
Healthy cash flow
We’re well into the new financial year now, and many businesses would have reviewed their debt recovery processes and procedures, to ensure they maintain a healthy cash flow and minimise potential bad debts this year. When we are winning new business, it’s great for our P&Ls, however if we don’t follow up on our invoices …
Ensure your business is protected with customised terms and conditions
Here’s a question to ponder: does your business have customised terms and conditions? If you are like many other business owners, the response is likely to be along the lines of “Umm, not sure”, or “we haven’t got around to that yet.” The truth is that updating T&Cs is one of those tasks businesses often …
Don’t give up on unpaid debts – lodge a credit default
Some debtors are stubborn, to put it kindly, and simply refuse to pay their accounts. So what should you do if you have unpaid debts and all your efforts are falling on deaf ears? Unless they are disputing the debt, we recommend lodging a default on the debtor’s credit rating. Why? You want to ensure …
Make the tough calls to clean up your end of financial year debtors’ ledger
Chasing overdue accounts as the end of financial year looms is a crucial business action – and one that some businesses put off or need a hand to address. The truth is that debtor management is often one of the most difficult aspects of effective cash-flow management. So what can be done? Issuing written reminders …