In part one of how to improve your cash flow with receivables, you were introduced to how your payment collection methods and policies can make a big difference in your overall cash flow. Here are more ways to improve cash flow with your receivables.
Make Regular and Quick Deposits
At the minimum, you should make a bank deposit every day of your daily sales, which includes all cash and coin, checks, money orders, and travelers’ checks. If you have a spry business that receives a lot of cash and checks, you might consider making two deposits – one at mid-day and another after business hours.
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Celebrities have been able to fulfil some of their childhood ambitions thanks to a television production company.
Brighton-based Electric Sky is hoping its series First Love, for Sky, will become a massive hit both at home and abroad.
Each week it will feature a famous name from the world of comedy, radio, TV or journalism who will try to re-learn long-forgotten skills from childhood.
They will work with a professional mentor before showing what they have learnt in front of a live audience.
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In-house payroll for small businesses seems the likely choice for those with just a few employees. However, whether you have 10 employees or 1,000, there still are certain payroll laws and IRS reporting guidelines to which you must adhere, not to mention your own cash flow to manage.
Here are four tips to help you make payroll a smooth operation every month:
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Use Software
Whatever you do, utilize a software program to help you with payroll. Alternatively, simply use an excel spreadsheet that helps you calculate and save payroll data.
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Evergreen Bank headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, is advertising some of the highest CD rates currently available right now. Evergreen Bank is advertising certificates of deposit with terms between 3 months and 5 years. Evergreen Bank Group’s certificate of deposit rates are also higher than the national average CD rates. The minimum opening CD account balance is $1,000.
Evergreen Bank Group’s highest CD rate is on their 60 month certificate of deposit. The current 5 year bank CD rate is 3.01 percent with an annual percentage yield (APY) of 3.05 percent. That CD rate is
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A digital media agency is helping residents tackle crime and disorder.
Mosaic Brighton has created a website for the Safer Arun Partnership which aims to make the community a safer place to live.
The Safer Arun Partnership, which replaces the previous Arun Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, wanted to find a cost-effective way to put its message out to the 146,000 people living in the Arun district, and asked Mosaic Brighton, based in Gloucester Road, to get involved.
Georgina Holland, community safety manager at the council, said: “When we undertook customer research we realised that people simply didn’t knowenough about us, so we decided we needed to change that.
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Bid for Government Contracts
If you are a sole proprietor, corporation or partnership and plan to do business with the federal government you will need to be registered in CCR before being awarded a contract.
There’s no cost to register and you can update your company information at any time and in one location via a CCR log in.
Keep in mind all federal government agencies can retrieve your company data from this one central location making the process seamless and hassle free.
So what is CCR?
The Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is a government-wide registry and its sole purpose is to collect, validate, store and distribute information. <
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