Corporate Finance Advice
Rajinder Nagiyal
June 19, 2023
The Best Corporate Finance Advice For Small to Mid-Size Business
There is no doubt that the primary purpose of a business is to maximize profit while maintaining corporate social responsibility. However, finance tends to be one of the most dreaded and overwhelming departments. And as a new entrepreneur, this dread is at its peak while starting the new business.
To define in short, Small and mid-size businesses, popularly called SMEs, are businesses with less than 50 employees who work independently.
Though there are many details on starting a business, very few talk about the nitty-gritty of creating and planning a business. And hence, today, we share some corporate financial advice for small and mid-sized businesses.
Some of the Best Corporate Financial Advice for Small to Mid-Sized Business:
- Prioritize business financial planning: Budgeting, accounting, forecasting, risk management, and tax planning are tasks that need to be considered during financial planning. Besides this, analysis of accounting reports and financial statements viz., balance sheet, P&L statement is essential to set financial goals.
- Create a budget and stick to it: Having a set budget can help you achieve your revenue goals. Creating a budget can help you accurately forecast your business’s revenue and even identify unnecessary expenses.
- Get a corporate card for your business: Experts advise keeping the personal and business expenses seperate. This also means having separate credit cards for your business expenses to avoid confusion and tally the costs hassle-free.
- Obtain a line of credit: When starting the business, the amount you have may look sufficient to sustain for some time. However, business emergencies can throw you off balance. Hence, it is advised to obtain a line of credit or small-term finance to manage your business and ultimately grow.
- Optimize your payroll process: No business can be run without help from the employees/staff. Hence, it is necessary to ensure on-time payments are made to them for their efforts. However, as a small or mid-sized business entity, we may sometimes ignore the fact that the payroll process is a time-consuming and complicated task. Hence, investing in good payroll software is necessary to make our lives a little easy.
- Keep your business and personal finances separate: We would like to reiterate the point of having separate finance sources for personal and business needs. Hence, it is essential to have different bank accounts for individual and business needs.
- Opt for a financial service/tool: Financial services help business owners automate repetitive, manual financial tasks while providing insights about the money flow. Opting for such tools relieves the burden from the owner’s shoulders to let them focus on growing or expanding the business.
- Improve inventory analysis: Inventory is an integral part of your life, whether a product-based business or service. For product-based companies, inventory analysis helps keep the supply chain on track while ensuring the product status, i.e., in stock, overstocked, is taken care of efficiently.
- Don’t be wary of loans: Though the debt trap is real, running away and being afraid of approaching for a loan in business is not a preferred option. A business loan can help you tackle the many unforeseen circumstances and expenses. Since small business loans are collateral-free with minimum documentation and offered at a competitive interest rate, opting for one is convenient at the time of need.
Though business textbooks discuss the conceptual and basic requirements of starting an SME, organizations like RSN Consultancy dealing with such scenarios can guide you in-depth to start and run your business efficiently and effortlessly.
So if you are an entrepreneur or an SME business owner, or you are someone who is planning to start a business, contact us now to get the best advice and solutions for all your queries!
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