Understanding Your Numbers

Do you want to increase your net profit?

Do you want more cash in bank?

Do you want to learn how to make smart business decisions?

This is part of what you will be learning with this practical workshop. We will teach you how to read and understand your numbers so you can make smart business decisions, all geared towards increasing efficiency, increasing your bottom line and increasing your cash in bank! It can be easy as a new business owner, manager or start-up operator to fall in love with what you’re doing while ignoring the underlying numbers that will make or break your business. Learn to understand your numbers so you can identify the key problems that negatively impact your net profit and cash in bank.

If you don't have your numbers up-to-date, don’t know how to interpret your numbers, don’t regularly look at your numbers or make decisions off your numbers, take some positive action right now and start making your numbers a priority. We can assure you that if you do, you can make a real difference in your business and achieve the success you want for your business. You can learn valuable information and lessons about your business from your financial statements - you just need to know how to read them!

YOU WILL LEARN:

- How to read and understand your financial statements

- What numbers are important and why

- Analysing your numbers

- Where your cash has gone

- How to use ratios to make business decisions

- What reports to run and why

- Budget and Cashflows - how they play an integral part in decision making

- How to confidently use your numbers and easily make decision for business success

- What to do if it all goes wrong

- Where to from here

DURATION: 5hrs (over two days) 6th November 2018, 9:30am to 12pm, 7th November, 9:30am to 12pm

A minimum of two people needed and a maximum of seven

NZTE FUNDING:

We are registered with NZTE, which means that you maybe eligible for 50% off this workshop. Contact Hamish at Marlborough Chamber of Commerce to see if you qualify. Phone 03 577 9575 or email hamish@mcoc.org.nz. Please note that you do not have to be a Chamber member to qualify for the funding. Even if you are applying for funding, you still need to book and pay for the workshop in full. Once you have attended the workshop, we will refund you the funded portion directly to your bank account.

CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY:

(a) Cancellations 10 days or more prior to the Workshop will attract a 5% cancellation fee. Cancellations less than 10 days prior to the Workshop will attract a 50% cancellation fee. Cancellations less than 2 days prior to the Workshop are non-refundable.

(b) We reserve the right to postpone or cancel a Workshop (e.g. due to insufficient registrations) in which case we will offer you an alternative workshop date or a full refund of all registration fees.

(c) If you receive NZTE funding, we will refund you the funded portion, once you attend the workshop.