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Why Is Cash Flow Important To Survive In Our Tough Business Climate?

Growth Institute

When you win the cash flow game, you build your fortress balance sheet that protects your company from today’s volatile business climate. What Is A Balance Sheet? Your balance sheet helps to put the answer in focus. But management teams usually are terrified of balance sheets because they’re complex.

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Be Your Cash Flow Story’s Hero With These Business Decisions

Growth Institute

If you start by defining what success looks like to your company, you can see which numbers on your balance sheet fall short of your expectations. Accounts receivable. Accounts payable. And, before you know it, you’ll check your balance sheet to find that your cash flow is a winner too.

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HR Finance 101: A Guide To Finance for HR

AIHR

For example, when a business purchases a new asset worth $1,000 on credit, the amount would be entered as a debit in the equipment (asset) account and a credit in the accounts payable (liability) account. A transaction is entered into an accounting record, typically in the ledger. Understanding the balance sheet.

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A Refresher on Debt-to-Equity Ratio

Harvard Business Review

Both of these numbers come from your company’s balance sheet. So you want to strike a balance that’s appropriate for your industry. That’s partly why, says Knight, Apple started to get rid of cash and pay out dividends to shareholders and added debt to its balance sheet in the last month or so.

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A Refresher on Current Ratio

Harvard Business Review

Those are the amounts that you owe others but haven’t yet hit your accounts payable liability. You owe employees for their time but they don’t ever invoice your company so it doesn’t hit accounts payable. These include accounts payable, accrued vacation, deferred revenue, inventories, and receivables.