If you’re in the hot-seat, do you rely on intuition and gut-feel too often? It may well work out in most cases, but what about when you need greater certainty in the financial outcome? Let’s say you have to make…
Most business owners spend time looking at the results of their efforts in the Profit & Loss Report andoccasionally the Balance Sheet. However if you focus your attention on the ‘Top 7 ‘Levers’ that maximise sales, profit & cash flow is…
There’s an old saying “Most businesses don’t plan to fail, they just fail to plan”. If you want to achieve a desired outcome you need to consider what actions are required to get there. The key elements of Profitability are…
The only certainty that emerged from the COVID-19 crisis, is that we all need to learn to live with uncertainty! Uncertainty doesn’t have to mean being unprepared. It means we need to consider several potential scenarios and be prepared to…
A ‘Blue Sky’ budget is one that includes a factor for growth. This is a great idea.....however where it often falls down, is in calculating everything else that enables the business’ ability to create and handle the growth. For example…
We humans have been communicating through stories for upwards of 20,000 years, back when our flat screens were cave walls. We've loved stories from an early age and we often want to hear the same tales, see the same movie…
Business owners and CEOs often tend to find themselves wearing about 15 different hats, spending too much time on hats that don’t generate any revenue or profit. They are, in turn, the bookkeeper, IT specialist, strategic planner, customer service manager,…
Creating anything is hard work! To get through each phase of the emotional journey to success requires tenacity and resilience. But it also requires something more important. Ever wondered why some people are more successful than others? Why two athletes who…
Today’s business environment requires a CFO to be not just a strategist, but a pragmatic strategist! Being a pragmatic strategist means being devoted to seeking solutions to problems! It means cultivating a mind-set where you, the CFO, ask the right…
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer” Bruce Lee Do you feel like you need to have all the answers? Most people do. This need was ingrained in…
