The MATAX Blog: Ops and Accounting Insights for Founders
Actionable advice, operational playbooks, and strategic deep dives to help you scale your business without the chaos.
Top Business App Integrations for March 2021
Discover top business app integrations for March 2021, streamlining workflows, spend management, reporting automation, and efficient project management.
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.
Top Business Apps: February 2021 Picks & Reviews
Discover top business apps hand-picked for February 2021 by the MATAX team: Roger, Xavier Analytics, Float, and Calendly. Streamline operations and save time!
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.
8 things your invoice needs in order to get paid faster
So you’ve set up your business and sold some products and services. Now, you have to send an invoice to collect your payment. But what should you include on your invoices in order to get paid faster?
Top Business Apps 2021: Streamline & Save Time
Discover the top business apps for January 2021 handpicked by MATAX experts. Streamline operations, save time, and boost efficiency with the best app solutions.
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
Planning the year ahead
The turn of the year usually prompts most people to think about some business planning for the year ahead. Here are some tips to make the planning more productive.
Top Business Apps to Boost Efficiency in December
Discover the top business apps to boost efficiency in December 2020. From accounting integrations to video conferencing tools, find the ideal solutions.
Five Ways to Bring in More Cash for Your Business
Now is the perfect time to evaluate your financial position and come up with innovative ways to add revenue streams and generate cash. Here are five ways you might consider to improve your cash inflow.
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.
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.
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.
Beyond COVID-19 – How to build value in your business
The key to building value in your business is to plan the process in a systematic way, whether you’re aiming to grow your business or groom it to get a better price from a buyer.
Battling Through COVID-19: Finance Tips for Business Survival
We’ve heard this before: the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global health and financial crisis that has caught many off guard. While the threats to human life are very real, the damage to the health of businesses is really just starting to show.
Prepare a business plan for COVID-19 recovery
You probably didn’t factor a global pandemic and national lockdown into your business plan! So now is definitely a good time to revisit your business plan for the next year.
How to build a cash war chest when money is tight
Your “war chest” is the financial reserve your business has built up so you can take advantage of an opportunity or cover unexpected costs or emergencies. Building a cash reserve when finances are tight, however, can be difficult.