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Growing Your Business With Professional Accountants

By Jeffrey Cooper


When setting up a business, it is everyone's dream to be successful. However, statistics show that more than 60 percent of new startups fail within a year of establishment. There are many things that lead to businesses failing, however, the most basic of these reasons is failure to recognize when the business has stopped being profitable. This is something that you can only find out if you follow the right accounting processes all the time. Hiring professional accountants will help your business in the following ways.

These professionals will help with the creation and presentation of annual financial statements. There are other statements that are prepared biannually and quarterly. The state department in charge of tax collection has certain rules and regulations that are supposed to give guidelines on the running of all business types. Accounts professionals are normally conversant with these laws and will help your business operate within the law.

All businesses need balance sheets. It is the only way to tell whether the enterprise is making profits or losses. When you engage a professional accountant, they will prepare balance sheets and follow them up with profit or loss statements. These statements are given to detail the causes of the profit margins or the losses.

If you need a business that is successful, it is vital to have creative cash flow statements. These are used to create a connection between the money that is being fed into the business and the proceeds from the business. Cash flow statements normally go together with owner equity reports. If your business is a partnership, you will need to be updated on your shareholding as it affects your powers in executive decision making.

There may come a time in this business that a business audit will be recommended. When this is the case, you will need to cal in experts. These external auditors will work together with the internal auditors and this is normally in the instance that fraud has been suspected in the business. These auditors will follow the rules and regulations set up. From the audit, the professionals will tell you if you have done all you should to prevent fraud in the enterprise or not.

For a business to be considered profitable, the profit margin must surpass the cost of procuring goods and services, operational costs and cost of hiring human resource. If you have been wondering whether your business is making profits or not, you will need to consult a qualified accountant to look at your operational data. The accountant will work together with a budget specialist to give a verdict on the profitability of your business.

Another important thing to constantly look at in business is the rate at which the stock moves. This is normally figured out when an inventory audit is done. An accountant will help you find out how much stock flows into your business, its shelf life and how fast you replace it.

Those are just a few of the services offered by accounts professionals. They can be hired when need arises, permanently or on retainer basis. As long as you hire competent professionals, your business will thrive.




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