Knowledge base

Strategic insights for SME owners who want to grow on the basis of data.

Knowledge base
Risk management

The Pareto principle as a risk gauge for your business

The same 80/20 split that drives your revenue also tells a story about risk. What a buyer, bank or investor checks first.

Professional services

Keeping projects profitable: from estimate to evaluation

How to calculate project margin including indirect costs, and why many service providers leave money on the table here.

E-commerce

Profit leaks in e-commerce: where does your margin go?

Stock turnover, return costs and hidden fulfilment costs, the three places where e-commerce margins erode.

Controlling

Rolling forecasts: steering in uncertain times

Why static budgets no longer work and how rolling forecasts let you adjust course two months earlier.

Professional services

Sustainable growth for professional services firms

From Excel to a real-time overview, how service providers get a grip on margin and scalability.

Cash flow

Cash flow as a brake on growth: why SMEs get stuck and how to break through

More than 60% of SMEs that go bankrupt were profitable on paper. The cause: a cash flow problem that was spotted too late.

CFO

What an external CFO firm does that a bookkeeper does not

The difference between execution and strategy, and why that makes the difference for growing SMEs.

KPIs

The 5 financial KPIs professional services firms neglect most

Utilisation rate, customer LTV and project margin, and how to track them in real time without exporting by hand every week.

Professional services

Utilisation rate vs. profitability, the metric firms forget

The KPI everyone measures, and why it can still mislead you. How to link utilisation to actual margin.

E-commerce

Channel profitability: why your Amazon revenue may be loss-making

Referral fees, FBA costs, ACoS, returns. What is really left per sale on Amazon, and when is it time to scale back?

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