Operations Articles

Product pricing can make or break your small business. If you set prices higher than what customers are willing to spend, you lose sales. But if you set prices too low, you don’t earn at your highest potential. Price points need to meet somewhere in the middle to generate the most revenue. Do you know […]

Managing accounting is just one of your business owner responsibilities. But for many, it can be overwhelming and nerve-racking. Your first instinct might be to outsource all your accounting tasks to an accountant. However, there are many financial tasks you can, and should, manage on your own.

When structuring your business, you must follow each entity’s formation requirements, such as registering with your state, obtaining licenses and permits, and filing paperwork. If you decide to structure your business as a limited liability company (LLC), you must file articles of organization. What are articles of organization?

As a small business owner, keeping track of inventory is an essential part of running your business. Perpetual inventory is one solution for inventory accounting. Read on to learn more about what is perpetual inventory, how perpetual inventory systems work, and the pros and cons of perpetual inventory.

According to one report, 65% of business comes from existing customers. But, do you know how much value each customer adds to your small business over the course of your relationship? To estimate the total that customers will spend at your company, calculate customer lifetime value.

Hooking new customers is an expensive pain point for many businesses. Your new customer acquisition cost (CAC) can be anywhere from five – 25 times as expensive as hanging onto your current buyers. How much are you dishing out on marketing to potential customers? Is all that spending paying off? To measure your efforts, you […]

Before you make business decisions or claims about profitability, you should have hard data to back it up. Small business financial ratios quantify your accounting data so you can improve operations, give lenders or investors insight into your business’s profitability, and measure growth. One popular metric businesses put stock into is the LTV:CAC ratio. Your […]

When a company makes money, it may decide to return a portion of cash to its shareholders. Depending on the business structure, individuals may receive special payments from a business called distributions. Read on to learn what is distribution, types, and how distributions work.