Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Profit is NOT cash

Your profit and loss statement tells you how your company has performed during the financial period. It also includes NON CASH items, aka expenses or income not spent or received yet.

You can therefore make a profit and NOT have any cash!

To have better cash flow management, you have to speed up your working capital cycle. How?

- Minimising stocks
- Getting debtors to pay up quickly and more regularly

Examples of NON CASH items -
a. Depreciation
b. Accrued charges
c. Accrued income
d. Translation gains/losses of foreign currencies
e. Profit/Loss on disposal of fixed assets

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good fill someone in on and this mail helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you as your information.

Anonymous said...

Do you have copy writer for so good articles? If so please give me contacts, because this really rocks! :)

Bob said...

No, I wrote these stuff myself :)