Oana Labes, MBA, CPA
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4 Simple Steps to Assess the Financial Health of a Business. -------💎Join 30,000+ subscribers of The Finance Gem and get free strategic finance insights to accelerate your career and grow your business. Every Saturday. Link in my profile or here >>>The Finance Gem🎯 Learn to analyze, optimize, strengthen, and master cash flow with my 5* 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 (link in Linkedin profile)-------☑️If you’re an accountant or finance professional, this will help you understand the key underlying drivers you should monitor and manage as you analyze financial performance results☑️If you're a manager, this will help you better understand your organization’s capital allocation priorities, which will help you align individual and organizational goals across your team and maximize your effectiveness.☑️If you’re an employee, this will help you better understand the priorities and performance drivers of your organization, so you can make better decisions for your own professional and career goals. ☑️If you’re an investor, this will help you better understand the risk levels underpinning management decisions, the drivers and sustainability of the business cash flows, and whether an investment aligns with your strategic objectives.☑️If you’re an owner, this will help you make more informed decisions and allocate resources in your company more effectively. 🎯 Here are my recommended 4 Simple Steps to Assess the Financial Health of a Business: 1️⃣ Analyze the Balance Sheet Objectives: evaluate liquidity, solvency, efficiency and asset values to determine the business overall financial health, risk-return profile, capital structure, leverage capacity.2️⃣ Analyze the Income Statement Objectives: evaluate profitability and operating leverage from Gross Margin to EBIT and NOPAT (EBIT x (1-tax)) to determine the business ability to sustainably generate sufficient revenue to cover expenses, earn a profit, and withstand periods of slower economic activity.3️⃣ Analyze the Cash Flow Statement Objectives: evaluate sources and uses of cash, to assess the business ability to generate sufficient operating cash flow to finance operations, fund debt repayment and invest in growth.4️⃣ Perform a Full Ratio Analysis Objectives: use in conjunction with trend (horizontal) analysis and common size (vertical) analysis, to understand business profitability, liquidity, solvency, efficiency, debt servicing capacity, and cash flow generation ability to meet strategic objectives. 🎯 Remember that context will fundamentally alter how the financial analysis tells the story. What would you add?PS. 🎯Join me on October 23 at the #AFP2023 to learn how to solve business problems through financial analysis. Wassia Kamon, CPA, CMA, MBA Bryan Lapidus, FPAC__________➕ Follow me for more finance, business, and cash flow insights.🔔 Ring the bell at the top right of my profile#entrepreneur #finance #business
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Is this a step-by-step sequence of importance? If so I feel the income statement/cash flow should come first before the balance sheet for an entrepreneur's POV. Do share with me your thoughts about this.
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Huma Arshad
Director Campus / Finance Strategist, facilitator - MBA Project Management, MBA Marketing,professional writer
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Ratio analysis is one of the most crucial and important task .
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Antonio V.
CFO and posgraduate professor at University of Piura (UDEP) and San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL)
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Totally agree. The financial performance is significant in the development of companies. I ve never seen a successful company without well financial management
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Jimmy Clements, CPA
Dad | Restructuring CFO | I help teams forecast profitability, project cash flow, and build their finance function.
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Totally Oana Labes, MBA, CPA, I think these are great when also coupled with forward looking models. Past performance isn't always indicative of future success. Step one should definitely be "let's check the business's temperature" with these core metrics, then quickly pivot to forecasting "where do we think the business is going" in the net 12 months that would change these metrics.
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Gary Jain 🚀
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Remember, context is crucial. Every business is unique, and these steps provide a solid foundation for financial analysis!
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SkillFine
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Ratio analysis is a good way to evaluate operating and financing health metrics of a company. It will look at key numbers from all the 3 financial statements and diagnose the issues that are.
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Bryan Lapidus, FPAC
Director, FP&A Practice at the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP)
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A very simple way to approach complex ideas. Looking forward to hearing more you and Wassia Kamon, at #AFP2023!
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Thanks for sharing
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Wassia Kamon, CPA, CMA, MBA
Finance Executive | Board Member | Keynote Speaker | 40 Under 40 CPAs | Experienced in Leading Accounting & FP&A Functions across Technology, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals & Not-for-Profits
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With more data and information available, it's great to remember the basics to streamline the analysis process and develop staff accordingly. Thanks for sharing, Oana Labes, MBA, CPA - Can't wait to share the stage with you next month at #AFP2023 !!!
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Kritikaa Verma- Business Designer
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Thank you for adding it into simple words
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It's important to understand that these four steps represent a superficial financial evaluation of the business. The true state goes much deeper!
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Critical steps to analyze finances!
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Assessing Financial health of every business is very important. Here are 4 simple steps to take:
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