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.
7 Practical Tips to Trim Your Overhead Expenses
In this article, we will give you some smart and practical tips that you might not have considered to lessen your costs while maintaining employee and customer satisfaction.
Top Apps for Business Efficiency: April 2021
Discover the top apps for business efficiency in April 2021! Streamline operations, save time & money with these expert picks from MATAX team members.
If My Business Is Making a Profit, Where Is the Cash?
Some small business owners find themselves in the difficult position of running a business that appears to be profitable, but still having no money in the bank. It’s an important situation to address. After all, a lack of adequate cash flow is one of the main causes of small business failure.
Master Your Finances With These 5 Essential Tips
Learn 5 essential tips to master your finances for financial freedom. Build income, grow savings, avoid debt, plan emergencies, and live below your means.
Improving Cash Flow: How To Get Paid Faster
Get paid faster with these expert tips for improving cash flow in your small business. Invoice quickly, set deadlines, and establish payment policies.
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
Get ready for a successful new year with expert tips on updating your business plan for growth and financial planning. Stay competitive and achieve your goals.
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.
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 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
Transform your business with efficient systems for success. Learn how good record-keeping, planning, and cash flow forecasting can help your business thrive.
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.