Business & Cash Flow Management Workshops

Please select a workshop below to learn more:
Pricing What You're Worth for Business Success
Reduce Your Employees' Financial Stress to Increase Their Productivity
Talking Your Customer's Language
Transitioning from Your Day Job to Your Dream Job
You Try to Be Everything to Everyone: The Benefits of Outsourcing
“Deadly Sins” of a Small Business Owner and How to Avoid Them
Accurate Bookkeeping and Financial Integrity
Finding A Good Fit: Choosing the CPA That’s Right for You
How to Make Your Accounting Software Work for You
The Importance of a Good Bookkeeper
Managing Your Cash Flow

Pricing What You’re Worth for Business Success
Underpricing goods or services is one of the many pitfalls of small business owners. One of the major consequences of underpricing is the inability to cover all business-related expenses and still earn a salary. This workshop provides business owners with strategies for determining what they can and should charge for their goods or services in order to turn a profit and build a solid foundation that will allow them to grow their businesses.

Reduce Your Employees’ Financial Stress to Increase Their Productivity
A leading cause of employee stress is personal financial pressure. This stress can negatively affect your bottom line by decreasing employee productivity. This workshop is designed to help business owners (1) understand the relationship between employee stress and employee productivity and (2) determine and implement strategies for reducing the source of stress without increasing employee compensation.

Talking Your Customer's Language
Do you ever feel you and your customer are communicating in different languages?  Have you ever wondered why you hit it off really well with some clients but not with others?  The answers to these questions lie in how your personality differs from or is similar to your clients’ personalities.  The goal of this workshop is to help you recognize personality characteristics that impact your customer’s behavior and decision-making ability and then teaches you to communicate in your customer’s “personality language” in a way that gets you the sale.

Transitioning from Your Day Job to Your Dream Job
Are you struggling to build your dream business, but still feeling encumbered by your day job? Are you wondering how you can successfully make the transition from employee to self-employed and finally employer? This workshop provides practical advice on how to make that leap. Attendees will learn:

• how to identify and overcome the forces keeping them from building their dream businesses;
• what is needed for a successful day job exit strategy, if they have it, and, if not, how to get it; and
• how to devise a practical time management plan to keep them on track in building their businesses.

The workshop is suited for entrepreneurs at all levels—from those just beginning the business planning process to those who already have an established client list.  It is also ideal for direct selling professionals, e.g. Arbonne International, Mary Kay Inc., The Pampered Chef, Tupperware Brands, etc.

You Try to Be Everything to Everyone: The Benefits of Outsourcing
Business owners often wear multiple hats. Smart business owners know they can’t and choose which hats they will and won’t wear. This workshop will help participants become smart business owners by guiding them in discovering which tasks they should continue doing and which ones they should delegate to someone else or outsource completely. Participants will also learn how to evaluate the costs of them continuing to do tasks versus the investment and payoff of outsourcing those tasks.

“Deadly Sins” of a Small Business Owner and How to Avoid Them
HF$ Associates has compiled a list of the most common cash management mistakes that small business owners make. This workshop will present and explain these mistakes and offer strategies for avoiding or fixing them.

Accurate Bookkeeping and Financial Integrity
Are you recording your depreciation expenses correctly? Do you know how? Are your loan payments properly being posted to principal and interest expense? Do you know how to properly record your owner’s draws? Answering “yes” or “no” to these and many other questions could positively or negatively affect the integrity of your books and the financial integrity of your business. This seminar intends to make small business owners aware of common bookkeeping mistakes and how they are made. Business owners will also find out how to avoid these errors.

Finding A Good Fit: Choosing the CPA That’s Right for You
When “shopping” for a CPA, one of the first things a business owner should consider is what kind of accountant they want—a tax preparer they only see once a year or a financial consultant that can provide them with the information and guidance they need to make critical business decisions. This informational workshop will provide participants with an overview of the accounting field and the range of services that CPAs can provide, help participants determine the kind of accountant they want, and provide them with tools to assess their current CPA relationship.

How to Make Your Accounting Software Work for You
Should I record all income as deposits or create an invoice for each job by the client? Should I record the work I provide by service type, client, or both? The answers to both questions, is “It depends.” For example, if you want to know which service type gives you the most income, you need to create separate categories in your software before you start using it. The same goes for finding out which clients are regular or steady sources of work. The key to getting the most out of your accounting software is to plan ahead. This seminar will help business owners more effectively use their accounting software by helping them to determine what they want from their software, what information they should be collecting and what this information can help them to achieve.

The Importance of a Good Bookkeeper
Accurate bookkeeping is essential for business success. It lays the foundation for tracking a business’ strengths or areas for improvement, provides business owners with information they need to make important decisions, and gives accountants the information they need to prepare their clients’ business tax returns. Because bookkeeping is so important, business owners need to make sure their bookkeepers are qualified and skilled. Attendees of this seminar will learn:

• how to determine if a bookkeeper is qualified;
• how and where to find qualified bookkeepers; and
• strategies for checking their bookkeeper’s work.

Managing Your Cash Flow
One of the biggest challenges for small business owners is managing the cash flowing into their businesses from revenues and flowing out of their businesses in the form of expenses. This workshop helps participants identify some of the most common cash flow management mistakes and provides strategies for avoiding these mistakes. Strategies for navigating a cash flow crunch, increasing inflow and decreasing outflow will also be provided.