Podcasts
Bookkeeping: Your business words
Today’s episode of I Hate Numbers is about Bookkeeping: Your business words. Travel back to Ancient Mesopotamia, Babylon, Assyria & Sumeria and you will see they have got their bookkeeping & accounting sorted. Documents from ancient Mesopotamia show lists of...
Break-Even Point Explained: The Business Milestone Before Profit
The break-even point is the financial milestone your business reaches when sales cover all costs, with no profit and no loss. Before we can build stronger profit, we need to know the sales level that keeps the business standing still. Understanding break-even helps...
Knowing your costs makes you money
Welcome to today’s episode of I Hate Numbers. Knowing your costs makes you money, a statement of the obvious perhaps. Certainly with statements of the obvious we sometimes forget business basics. In this podcast episode I am going to take a real cool way to look at...
What Is Profit? Gross Profit and Net Profit Explained
About this episode What is profit, and why does it matter beyond sales? Sales can feel exciting. A new customer, a paid invoice, or a busy week can make a business look healthy from the outside. However, sales alone do not tell the full story. We look at profit in...
Creating your cash future
Creating your cash future, the theme of today’s episode of I Hate Numbers. Firstly when you are in the eye of a financial storm what’s the one major thing that’s going to get your business through it? That one thing, that protection, comfort blanket, and financial...
The language of accounting
Welcome to today’s episode of I Hate Numbers, talking about The language of accounting. Today we’re going to have a peek at some of the language that Accounts, and Finance people use. It can be an alien language if you are a stranger in the Number’s world. I am...