Managing Finances

Control your business costs

Budgets, cashflow, tax returns, profit, loss, turnover – all at the core of start-up and growing businesses but often intimidating. Familiar IT tools such as Excel though, can take the pain out of accounting, helping you integrate reports, forecast sales, measure business activity and identify trends, problems and opportunities.

Read

Improve your business success by keeping a tight control of your finances and managing costs effectively.

Keep the cash flowing – download our guide (271KB)
How to create a business plan
Tracking financial data
Getting invoicing right
Eight ways to make a budget work
Introduction to online banking

Learn

Learning how to manage your accounts is time well spent – it could prevent you making costly business mistakes.

Ten financial yardsticks for your small business
Introduction to forecasting
Top 10 benefits of Excel 2007
Case study: eliminating the need for a book-keeper
Case study: reducing costs and boosting productivity

Watch

These brief videos demonstrate just how easily and quickly you can get to grips with some of Excel's most useful features.

Accounting in Excel 2007
How Excel can spot what you need to know
Using conditional formatting in Excel (3.14 Mb/s)
Presenting data in charts (3.14 Mb/s)
Creating a pivot table report in Excel (3.14 Mb/s)

Next Steps

Understand how your company is performing financially and the reasons behind that performance so that you can make informed business decisions and achieve greater success.