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Unlocking Financial Insights with financial analysis Understanding financial results isn’t just about profitability; it’s also about knowing how well your business can meet short-term obligations. Liquidity ratios provide a clear picture of your organisation’s ability to pay its bills and maintain financial stability.   Following on from the first post looking at operational performance ratios. In this second post, we look at Liquidity Ratios, critical for assessing short-ter

A quick overview of operational performance ratios explaining how to calculate them and why they are used.

Simple tips on how to improve the cashflow of your business

This explains how to separate a budget variance into price and volume variances to facilitate better decision making

— A Key Step in Cost-Benefit Analysis Following on from my recent post on the 7 key steps to develop a Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), step...

A high level overview of the key steps to prepare a cost benefit analysis for your business case.

Following these 5 tips will allow you to focus on the key areas and improve your financial management of your profit centre or cost centre.

When I work with groups across Finance, Procurement and Project Management, we inevitably mention the concept of Value for Money (VFM). ...

Program logic is a fundamental tool in the public sector, used to design, implement, and evaluate programs effectively. It provides a...

How to improve the utilisation of your system implementation.

It sounds like a tongue twister but it's a question that comes up regularly, in certain quarters anyway. Read on to find out how much. What feels like a deliberately provocative question, is something I often ask when working to understand the concept of financial sustainability and the interaction of the financial statements. 🃏 Now, the get out of jail card, this can be a very deep question but here we will concentrate on the concept of financial sustainability. So how much

Developing robust organisation financial management is vital. It plays a critical role in obtaining approval and securing resources.