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Continue readingPodcast: Track Business Performance with KPI’s Increase profits by understanding the story behind your numbers. Too many business owners rely on “beer case metrics” to know how they are doing. Does this sound familiar? You work hard all week and on Friday you collect your customers’ cheques so you can run down to the bank […]
Continue readingThe new “Health Tax announced in the reading of the 2018 BC provincial budget made it clear that the NDP/Green government wants to transfer the burden of the health care system onto the backs of BC businesses. The $500K payroll exemption excludes micro businesses from the new tax burden. However, based on an average annual […]
Continue readingThere is a profitability epidemic lurking amongst manufacturing and trades businesses in Vancouver and the surrounding area. Although a large number of businesses are flourishing I have had the opportunity to meet with dozens of business owners of well established businesses who employ five to fifty people that struggle to break even. In many cases […]
Continue readingImprove Cash Flow Almost every business wants to improve cash flow. The one common phrase I hear from business owners who struggle with cash flow and profitability is “just in case”. When I conduct a financial review of manufacturers, distributors, and trades businesses I often find they have too many employees or are carrying 50% […]
Continue readingMany companies in the manufacturing, contracting and transportation industries struggle to increase profits. The perceived solution is to increase sales when the real problem is that the business is a “leaky bucket” of profits. Think of your company as a bucket full of water. If there are holes in the bucket no matter how small […]
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