MATAX Blog
5 Personal Finance Hacks To Start Now
Having total control over your finances can give you an amazing sense of freedom. However, it takes a lot of discipline and hard work for you to be able to achieve this.
Improving Cash Flow: How To Get Paid Faster
Maintaining positive cash flow can be challenging for small businesses, whether you’re just starting out or have been running your company for years.
These tips will help you get paid faster, so you can avoid a dangerous cash flow crunch.
Apps Apps Apps - March 2021
Each month, members of the MATAX team pick their favorite of the month. Here are the selections for March 2021.
3 Advantages of Digital Signing for Businesses
Digital signing, versus the traditional “wet” signature, has become increasingly popular in recent years. More and more countries across the globe have endorsed the legal validity of digital signing, enabling businesses to digitize entire workflows and further optimize management processes.
The advantages of a business dashboard
Business dashboards are a valuable business intelligence tool, offering an “at-a-glance” big picture view of a company’s performance.
Apps Apps Apps - February 2021
Adding the right applications to your business can streamline operations, create efficient processes and save you time and money. But where to start? Each month, members of the MATAX team pick their favorite of the month. Here are the selections for February 2021.
5 Most Common Accounting Mistakes That Could Hurt Your Business
Many small business owners tend to handle their own accounting and bookkeeping, especially when they’ve just started out. However, keeping track of the finance-side of the business– everything from income to expenses to tax compliance– can be overwhelming.
Apps Apps Apps - January 2021
Adding the right applications to your business can streamline operations, create efficient processes, and save you time and money. But where to start? There are 1,000’s of applications out there, many solving the same or similar issues. Each month, members of the MATAX team pick their favorite of the month. Here are the selections for January 2021.
Update your business plan for a new year
As another year winds down, it’s a good time to reflect on your recent business successes – and consider what you’d like to achieve in the coming twelve to fifteen months.
These tips can help you with the process of making plans to help guide your business to greater success
The worst business advice to follow
When you’re a small business owner, you get used to people giving you advice. Sometimes you seek out their insights while other times they share whether you want them to or not. While the advice is almost always well-intended, it’s not always good. In fact, sometimes it’s downright awful.
Apps Apps Apps - December 2020
Adding the right applications to your business can streamline operations, create efficient processes, and save you time and money. But where to start? There are 1,000’s of applications out there, many solving the same or similar issues.
Creating your business to-do list
When you’re an entrepreneur, your to-do list is often long and constantly growing longer. There is an overwhelming number of things you need to do, and it can feel like they’re all urgent. In such cases, it’s easy to push important tasks to the side and focus on less-vital activities, but that often means you miss deadlines, make mistakes, or always feel as though you’re trying to catch up.
A Guide to Business Recovery in a pandemic world
Although the short-term outlook varies depending on your industry sector, it is important for all business leaders to set up a strategy that will guide their way towards recovery. If you want some tips on how to hit the ground running after the crisis, this guide will outline the steps to get your business back on track.
Four Great Ways To Get More Leads for Your Business
It’s very rare these days that people just happen to find your business and become a client or customer with no work on your part. Your business has to grab people’s attention, turn curious visitors into leads, and then convert those leads into sales.
How Small Businesses are Boosting Sales During COVID-19
In this article, we put a spotlight on the most creative and innovative ways that small businesses have adopted to increase sales during the pandemic and prosper in the new business environment.
How Your Business Can Thrive Even in a Recession
The pains caused by a recession can be excruciating, which is why most of us dread the thought of it. A recession can mean massive layoffs, jobs becoming harder to find, and wages frozen, which means consumers hunker down and spend less– often worsening the economic slowdown unknowingly.
Questions to ask as your small business recovers from COVID-19
As small business owners look to operations after COVID-19, there are some important business questions to ask. These questions will help you determine what adaptations you want to keep, whether your business model is working, and if there are additional changes you want to make to keep your company operational through future economic downturns.
Efficient business systems really pay off
Too many businesses fall over because the owner has not established efficient business systems. This typically happens because the business owner is so caught up in the day-to-day running of the business that the fundamentals of good business management get forgotten.
Changing your business model
Your current business model is the way your business earns money. A change in your business model can bring substantially more income – sometimes for less work and lower overhead costs.
How cash flow forecasts can help you
Managing cash flow is a vital part of running a successful business. Some business owners think managing cash flow simply means keeping track of how much money enters and leaves their business, but there’s actually more that goes into it.

