organised!!!

[rugeleyboy]

hi all, heres one to get your teeth into!!

i had a meeting with a new accountant today who came to my office/shop......... after spending a couple of hours with me he decided (in the nicest possible way) that we couldnt arrange a p1ss up in a brewery?

so my question is..................... how does a person become organised???

[ummmm]

Hire someone.

I've been with my accountant all day and even her fridge is lined up in date order.

I think it's either in you or not. Get someone to sort you out a system and try to follow it.

Easier said than done though......

[-Zorro-]

Im either very disorganised or i do an excell spreadsheet to organise my finances etc to minute detail.....depends whether i can be bothered

[funkymoped]

let the Mrs sort it !!!!!
:-)

[-Zorro-]

do spreadsheets writing down your systems.....eg from order to invoice to payment received.

once you have everything down on paper about how you do things then you can assess where you are going wrong.

Ive been skint every months for couple of years yet have had 2 x �2k bank loans which i dont know how ive spent them.

Now i do spreadsheet analysing my bank payments and now in great detail my cash payments. Then i can compare expected forcast expenditure to actual expenditure and assess wastage. And this is just my personal exp not business.

Do something similar for your business exp and income.

Spreadsheets are great.You dont necessarily need ac accountant to do it for you.

[-Zorro-]

I do have a bookkeeping co on the side if you need any advice....no clients yet tho........

[whiskeysheri]

I think I'm very organised, ruge, but there's only so much one person can do. I'm still sorting out the mess the last secretary left a year and a half ago as well as all the current stuff. We have more than one company, too, so it's not easy. :o)

[rugeleyboy]

hi all!!...................... sorry i think i have led you all up the wrong path!

he wasnt just on about my finances , he was on about the way the business is being run?

[whiskeysheri]

Nope, it's the same thing here, ruge. We're going wrong somewhere, too.

[ummmm]

Well it's a lot easier to run a company well if the finances are in good order.

Did he pinpoint the problem?

Any little hint......

[winny]

Make Lists, lots of them then you dont forget stuff and everything stays in order. Have a daily task list and stick to it till it is done. I am really sad and if i do something that is not on the list i write it on and cross it off so I can tell how much i have got done in a day

[dot.hawkes]

well what do you offer your staff in the way of training? on a weekly basis, monthly basis etc? Do you have a set of working guidelines printed up and pasted to the waqll every 6 feet? Do people accept their accountability and responsibility?

[dot.hawkes]

Oh and my area managers favourite phrase, delegate but don't abdicate.

[efc]

If you want to organise your business then just give me a job!! I could do with a new challenge!

[beryllium]

What do you do Rugely?
When I had my little restaurant I was incredibly disorganised. My accountant and his lovely wife used to sort out my mess. I always thought I was in order with my books, but they used to go through my accounts with a fine toothcomb lol..... with a warning I was going to get a TAX investigation.
I did.
Don't go there mate.
I ended up with a bill. Apparently... lol.... according to my accountant..... I was his first client to get a bill hehe.....

I paid it :-( but I got most of it back in a tax refund the next yr.

If you're making money hun? and you're paying the bills? you owe money!!! get organised loosely.... and pay your accountant to sort it!!! that's what they're good at!!!

[sense4all]

Ruge do you do any filing or is this all in a cupboard that no one dares open? You need to break things into big categories, then subdivide into smaller things. Nothing flash in the begining hun - for the paperwork I got boxes from the shops (that fruit comes in ) and you can chuck into yer ins, outs, wtf, action now file later and copies for credit control - this is the most important one - keep your money owed rolling in. I once took a job where on my first day they made me feel like royalty .I had a big shock when they opened all the doors and drawers in the Financial Directors office and they vomited four years worth of all the company paper work onto the floor. Once you make a start in the boxes then work down to A4 files it's a breeze just get in there ASAP. Took about two months to get it fine tuned - but before I started I negotiated getting a percentage of the money in - to keep the company on it's feet while sorting thro' the chaos. I stayed for years and they opened another four branches when the finances were sorted ... it's worth getting sorted. Pay someone an admin wage if necessary - rather than an expensive accountant to go through it. More bang for your buck that way.