Financial forecasts are essential for managing your business finances, and engaging a bas agent can assist you in creating accurate and reliable predictions. These forecasts involve predicting your business finances in the future instead of relying solely on historical financial statements that can be up to 12 months old and only provide details of actual past results.
By working with a bas agent to create forecasts, you can identify potential profit or cash flow issues on the horizon and take proactive steps to mitigate them. Without financial forecasts and the assistance of a bas agent, it can be challenging to anticipate and prepare for future financial challenges.
5 Ways Forecasting Can Help Your Business with a BAS Agent
- Focus on the Future
Forecasting regularly forces you to continually think about your future and where your business is headed. This will allow you to foresee changing market trends and stay ahead of your competition.
- Customer Satisfaction
Keep your customers satisfied by providing them with the product they want and when they want it. The advantage of forecasting in your business will help predict product demand so that enough product (or staffing) is available to fulfill customer orders, mainly if demand is seasonal.
- Credit
If you expect to apply for a loan or line of credit, your financial institution will likely ask you to provide them with forecasting reports with your submission.
- Cash Flow
Forecasting can give you the intelligence to anticipate a downturn in sales and plan for it. Likewise, it can alert you to periods when you can expect an increase in sales, and you can organise additional staffing and working capital ahead of time.
- Progress Towards Goals
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. Setting goals alongside your business forecasts allows you to track your progress and plan your operations aligned to your goals.
If you have any questions or want to know more about how we can help you with your business forecasting, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kreston Stanley Williamson Team
*Correct as of May 2018
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