Finance

Preparing your business for Fiscal Year End

The financial year end of a company (also known as Fiscal Year End or FYE) is undoubtedly the busiest period of a business’s year.
Essentially, it is the wrapping up of the company’s accounts for the business year. This assists all key stakeholders assess the company’s profits, losses and overall financial performance for the year that was.

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Handling your Debtors and Creditors in December

Proper planning of cash flow should be done to ensure that earlier release of monthly expense obligations or preloaded payments will be authorised before the office shutdown period, given that most administrative staff members will be on leave at month end in December. It is never pleasant to start the new year with overdue and unpaid accounts.

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Statement of Cash Flows

A cash flow statement is a financial statement that summarizes the amount of cash and cash equivalents entering and leaving the business.

The cash statement is broken down into three sections namely, cash flow from operating activities, cash flow from investing activities and cash flow from financing activities.

There are two methods of calculating the cash flow, the direct and indirect method.

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