Keeping up with your bookkeeping will not only help you with your compliance tasks, such as filing your tax return at the end of the year, but having this financial data will also help you make smart business decisions.  In today’s podcast episode, you’ll learn about the most common financial mistakes and how you can prevent them in your business.  Understanding your financial information is vital to the success of your business, whether you are a self-employed individual, a solopreneur, entrepreneur, mompreneur, freelancer, small business owner, a remote, virtual, online, or in-hous ..read more

Hey there, I’m Chris Panek, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Coach, and the host of the Mastering Your Small Business Finances Podcast, and I want to welcome you to the sixth episode of a new series I’m doing on this podcast.  My intention is to drop one of these additional episodes every Monday while I continue to provide you with the regular Mastering Your Small Business Finances podcast episodes, which will continue to help you take control of and understand your business finances with topics that ultimately impact your bottom line.  I have many business owners, accountants ..read more

Learning about your competition will help you gain sales by making sure your product goes above and beyond what your competition has to offer.  Competition isn’t bad; in fact, understanding precisely who your competition is will help you determine if your business is on the right path to success.  In today’s podcast episode, we will cover who your competitors are, why you should stay on top of what your competitors are doing, and how you can create your product or service so much more valuable to your customers than your competition offers.  When you monitor your competition, yo ..read more

Hey there, I’m Chris Panek, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Coach, and the host of the Mastering Your Small Business Finances Podcast, and I want to welcome you to the fifth episode of a new series I’m doing on this podcast.  My intention is to drop one of these additional episodes every Monday while I continue to provide you with the regular Mastering Your Small Business Finances podcast episodes, which will continue to help you take control of and understand your business finances with topics that ultimately impact your bottom line.  I have many business owners, accountants ..read more

Using your passion for boosting profits in your business is key to your happiness and success, but you need to know how to propel your passion into your business.  Focusing on what excites you and putting that energy to work for you to create a profitable business takes work, but when you have passion behind your every move, you are able to push through even the biggest challenges in your business.  In today’s podcast episode, I am talking about how to make your passion profitable by discussing how you can find your passion as well as your purpose, validate your ideas, create a plan ..read more

Hey there, I’m Chris Panek, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Coach, and the host of the Mastering Your Small Business Finances Podcast, and I want to welcome you to the fourth episode of a new series I’m doing on this podcast.  My intention is to drop one of these additional episodes every Monday while I continue to provide you with the regular Mastering Your Small Business Finances podcast episodes which will continue to help you take control of and understand your business finances with topics that ultimately impact your bottom line.  I have many business owners, accountants ..read more

You can have the most in-depth business plan and create the best strategy for your business, but if you don’t take action, you’ll never reach the dreams you have for your business.  You want to make sure you are taking the right actions in your business and staying consistent with your actions so that you create the momentum you need to propel your business forward.  Many business owners feel overwhelmed or intimidated when they look at everything they need to do to start or grow their business, but the first step to overcoming overwhelm is to start taking action.  In today’s po ..read more

Hey there, I’m Chris Panek, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Coach, and the host of the Mastering Your Small Business Finances Podcast, and I want to welcome you to the third episode of a new series I’m doing on this podcast.  My intention is to drop one of these additional episodes every Monday while I continue to provide you with the regular Mastering Your Small Business Finances podcast episodes which will continue to help you take control of and understand your business finances with topics that ultimately impact your bottom line.  I have many business owners, accountants ..read more

Having a clear business plan and strategy in place so that you know the direction you want your business to go is one step in the process of reaching your goals as a business owner.  When you take these strategies and develop milestones for each of them, you will be crystal clear on your next steps to success.  Creating your business milestones will help you deepen your understanding of the process to reach and take action on each of the strategies in your business plan.  Every milestone you complete brings you forward to accomplishing your overall progress of implementing your ..read more

Hey there, I’m Chris Panek, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Coach, and the host of the Mastering Your Small Business Finances Podcast, and I want to welcome you to the second episode of a new series I’m doing on this podcast.  My intention is to drop one of these additional episodes every Monday while I continue to provide you with the regular Mastering Your Small Business Finances podcast episodes which will continue to help you take control of and understand your business finances with topics that ultimately impact your bottom line.  I have many business owners, accountants ..read more