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23rd January 2017
 
 
This week's survey 

(These survey questions are sent in by our readers. Please spend a minute to give your answer to this week's survey as one or possibly more of your industry peers thinks this question is important and wishes to see your point of view as well as others in the industry.)  
 

Last week's survey results...
 
Do you know and track the minimum total sales you need in order to achieve a profit each month and do you know your minimum invoice value that will show a real profit?: 
  • The tricky part of that question is to define "real" profit. Simply adding a standard margin to supposed "real" costs for a small job does not guarantee a real profit. For many manufacturing businesses the bottom (smallest) 20% of clients contribute less than 5% of total revenue. Doesn't take Einstein to figure they cant be showing a real profit. (Michael, AS Fisher & Co)
  • Not really. I don't have the staff or the time to spend time micro managing my sales. I know what my margins are and what I need to sell in a month to keep the doors open. Minimum invoice values don't really work as each job has it's own costs so it can realistically be a big invoice with small margins, or it can be a small invoice with big margins. I'm not really sure how a minimum invoice value would work in terms of showing a real profit. Seems a strange question to ask to be honest. 
  • Yes and Yes. The reason: why go to work and lose money (by not knowing your figures), when you can stay at home and earn no money. The whole idea of going to work is income, that's why we do it and that's why we should know our figures. Fun and fulfilment can be got in other ways, but you need to profit from work.
  • Yes, of course. You don't have to be an accountant to keep track of your business numbers. A good spreadsheet is all you need.

(As a publishing practice to protect ourselves from any potential liability, company and individual names that are referred to negatively in any of these comments are removed.
In addition we reserve the right to remove comments that are blatant advertising for one product or company)


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