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Small business accountant in Melbourne: mistakes that small businesses should avoid

Financial management is an important aspect in every small business and it is definitely not an easy task to manage it proper. Here are a few common mistakes that all small businesses owners in Melbourne should try their very best to avoid:

Not forecasting or budgeting cashflow
Cashflow is essentially like blood in our body. Without forecasting or budgeting one, businesses will not know how much cash is needed to operate or keep. Your forecasted cashflow should match up with your cash reserve for smooth business operations.

Borrowing and borrowing
Everything in life or business is about balancing, being on one extreme side is dangerous. It is so much easier to borrow than to repay and when you borrowed too much, it is extremely hard to catch up.

Mixing personal and business together
This is probably the ultimate pitfall – to mix your personal financials up with business. Thinking about it, when you paid some expenses for your business with your personal card, you need to reimburse and at the same time, when you paid something personal with your business card, again, you need to reimburse it. What a waste of time and effort, just keep it clean and simple from the beginning.

Doing everything yourself without professional help
It is easy to do everything yourself if there is 72 hours a day. As small business owners, there are much more things you can do to grow your business. Learn to let go of some tasks that can be done professionally for you.

If you are looking for someone to help, contact mas soon! Based in Sydney and Melbourne, we are a group of professional accountants who are passionate in taking off the accounting burden off our clients.

 
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